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Where the Spirit Lives is a 1989 television film about Aboriginal children in Canada being taken from their tribes to attend residential schools for assimilation into majority culture. Written by Keith Ross Leckie and directed by Bruce Pittman, it aired on CBC Television on October 29, 1989.
Jun 6, 1990 · Where the Spirit Lives: Directed by Bruce Pittman. With Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon. A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.
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Watch in Movie Theaters on June 6th, 1990. Stream 'Where the Spirit Lives' and watch online. Discover streaming options, rental services, and purchase links for this movie on Moviefone....
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.
Jun 6, 1990 · A movie about the true story of a First Nations girl who was kidnapped and forced to assimilate in a boarding school in 1937. She struggles to keep her culture and identity amidst the brutality and racism of the system.
Jan 26, 2018 · In light of Canada's $800-million proposed agreement with indigenous"Sixties Scoop" residential school survivors, here is a movie depicting the government sanctioned "scoop" (kidnapping) cultural...
