Where the Spirit Lives
- 19891989
- 1h 36min
A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.
Margaret Cozry
- Grandmotheras Grandmother
- (as Margaret R. Cozry)
Tina Louise Bomberry
- Assistant Supervisor #2as Assistant Supervisor #2
- (as Tina Bomberry)
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. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted. —Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
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My Father went through what happened in this Movie
My Father is a Micmac and so am I. I'm 16 now and when i first saw this movie it was the early 90s. i must have been about 4 or 5 years old. The movie is based on Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia, Canada. My father was in that school for 6 years, longer then other people who where there. My dad isn't fixated on what happened while he was at that school, unlike other people. Some people that went to shubie school for 6 months talk about all that bad things that happened to them like they were there for 10 years. You'd never even know that my dad went there. When he does talk about shubie school it's not about the horrors of what went on, it's mainly good things like how the kids there used their slices of bread like money or how if you touched someone else food it became yours. That only bad thing he ever said about that school was that the food sucked so you had to eat it really fast. To this day he still eats his food fast, it doesn't even touch the plate and it's gone.
What i want to say is that i think this movie did an amazing job at portraying what went on behind the walls and that the Catholic church is messed up for thinking that they can "fix" everybody else to their standards. What happened in those schools is on some degree like what Catholic Priests molesting those children. For anyone who would really like to know more about Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, you should read "Out of The Depths" by Isabelle Knockwood. For rating i give this movie a 10 out of 10.
What i want to say is that i think this movie did an amazing job at portraying what went on behind the walls and that the Catholic church is messed up for thinking that they can "fix" everybody else to their standards. What happened in those schools is on some degree like what Catholic Priests molesting those children. For anyone who would really like to know more about Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, you should read "Out of The Depths" by Isabelle Knockwood. For rating i give this movie a 10 out of 10.
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- mels_016
- Mar 25, 2004
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