Where the Spirit Lives

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.

• Keith Ross LeckieWriter
• Bruce PittmanDirector
• Buffy Sainte-MarieOriginal Music Composer

• Michelle St. JohnKomi / Amelia
• Kim Bruisedhead FoxAnataki
• Marianne JonesKomi's Mother
• Gus Chief MoonKa - moos - ee
• Clayton JulianPita / Abraham
• Margaret CozryGrandmother
• Marge FoxAnataki's Mother
• Ann-Marie MacDonaldKathleen
• Sean MulcahyPriest
• Sam MalkinMr. Crawford
• Doris PetrieMiss Weir
• Chapelle JaffeMiss Appleby