Where The Spirit Live
Where the Spirit Lives (1989) is a drama film about Aboriginal children getting taken from their tribes to attend residential schools. 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 plan her escape. The film's cast also includes Ann-Marie MacDonald and David Hemblen as teachers at the school.
Where the Spirit Lives (1989) is a drama film about Aboriginal children getting taken from their tribes to attend residential schools. 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 plan her escape. The film's cast also includes Ann-Marie MacDonald and David Hemblen as teachers at the school.