Where the Spirit Lives was released in 1989. It's audience rating is N/A and it runs for 96 min. A Drama movie, it was written by Keith Ross Leckie, directed by Bruce Pittman; starring Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones. In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.. Where the Spirit Lives was first released in Canada and has grossed N/A at the BoxOffice Worldwide. It is available in the English language(s). If you liked Where the Spirit Lives, you will enjoy similar Drama movies like Apocalypto, L'Ours, तारे ज़मीन पर, Der Himmel über Berlin, The Unforgiven, .
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