Watch Where the Spirit Lives (1990) Online

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. Read More

Watch Where the Spirit Lives online. Featuring Michelle St. John and Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Where the Spirit Lives is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6.3. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was released on 1990. Where the Spirit Lives was directed by Bruce Pittman. Read Less