Where the Spirit Lives

A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...

In 1937, a young First Nations 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. Taken to a boarding school where she's forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment, she has the support of one sympathetic white teacher.

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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