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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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- Drama
- Bruce Pittman
- 1990-06-06
Jul 14, 2013 · Where The Spirit Lives 1989. DeadDrop. 827 subscribers. Subscribed. 2.1K. 329K views 10 years ago. Better copy of the movie here. • Where The Spirit Lives I played the little boy...
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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.
Where the Spirit Lives is a powerful and emotional movie underpinned with both Canadian and US history, superb acting, and beautiful landscape. The movie, taking place during the 1930s in Nova Scotia, takes a sensitive and moving look at how a dominant culture oppresses and/or destroys other cultures whose behavior is contrary to the dominant ...
Jan 26, 2018 · Where the Spirit Lives 1989 - complete movie with discussion. In light of Canada's $800-million proposed agreement with indigenous"Sixties Scoop" residential school survivors, here is a...
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Jun 6, 1990 · 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.
