Where the Spirit Lives

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Where the Spirit Lives was a Canadian television film, which aired on CBC Television in 1989. It was written by Keith Ross Leckie and directed by Bruce Pittman.

The film starred Michelle St. John as Amelia, a young First Nations girl captured and forcibly confined to the residential school system of the 1930s. The system was an attempt to force aboriginal youth to assimilate into white culture; in the film, Amelia resists this kind of assimilation and attempts to escape.

The film's cast also includes Ann-Marie MacDonald and David Hemblen as teachers at the school.

[edit] External link

• Where the Spirit Lives at the Internet Movie Database

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