Where the Spirit Lives

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Michelle St. John

Komi / Amelia

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Kim Bruisedhead Fox

Anataki

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Marianne Jones

Komi's Mother

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Gus Chief Moon

Ka - moos - ee

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Clayton Julian

Pita / Abraham

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Margaret Cozry

Grandmother

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Marge Fox

Anataki's Mother

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Ann-Marie MacDonald

Kathleen

Age : 65 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Rene O'Hashi
Directing	Director	Bruce Pittman
Production	Casting	Arlene Berman
	Producer	Scott Shepherd Eric Jordan Heather Haldane Mary Young Leckie
	Executive Producer	Paul Stephens
	Production Manager	Nancy Harvey
Writing	Writer	Keith Ross Leckie
Sound	Music	Buffy Sainte-Marie
Art	Production Design	Valanne Ridgeway
	Set Decoration	Jane Manchee
	Art Direction	Tim Bider
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Sylvie Krasker
	Makeup Artist	Nicole Demers
	Hairstylist	Perry Kutsch
Editing	Editor	Michael Todd
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