Where the Spirit Lives

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Michelle St. JohnKomi / Amelia

Kim Bruisedhead Fox

Kim Bruisedhead FoxAnataki

Marianne Jones

Marianne JonesKomi's Mother

Gus Chief Moon

Gus Chief MoonKa - moos - ee

Clayton Julian

Clayton JulianPita / Abraham

Margaret Cozry

Margaret CozryGrandmother

Marge Fox

Marge FoxAnataki's Mother

Ann-Marie MacDonaldKathleen

Sean Mulcahy

Sean MulcahyPriest

Sam MalkinMr. Crawford

Doris PetrieMiss Weir

Chapelle JaffeMiss Appleby