A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...
In 1937, a young First Nations 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. Taken to a boarding school where she's forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment, she has the support of one sympathetic white teacher.
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Cast
- Michelle St. JohnKomi / Amelia
- Kim Bruisedhead FoxAnataki
- Marianne JonesKomi's Mother
- Gus Chief MoonKa - moos - ee
- Clayton JulianPita / Abraham
- Margaret CozryGrandmother
- Marge FoxAnataki's Mother
- Ann-Marie MacDonaldKathleen
- Sean MulcahyPriest
- Sam MalkinMr. Crawford
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- Bruce PittmanDirector
- Keith Ross LeckieWriter
- Rene OhashiDirector of Photography
- Buffy Sainte-MarieOriginal Music Composer
- Michael ToddEditor
- Eric JordanProducer
- Heather HaldaneProducer
- Scott ShepherdProducer
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