where the spirit lives pt1

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.

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[bass19820]

yeah the audio is messed up

[fanniemaeflippers]

@amrit4900 Making fun of this movie, though I am sure you are ignorant the importance of this film, is like making fun of a film on the holocaust...

We here in North America have no problem pointing a finger at the genocide in other places of the world, in other points in history, while we live in a country that was built on the same shameful genocide of a people and their way of life... And we remain so very ignorant... pretty sad...

[mania10766]

As a young black person, I feel sorrow and anger at the enslavement and abuse of blacks. But I feel more sorrow for the fate First Nations people. We get a month to recognize our suffereing and later sucesses, the past of Aborignals and Native Americans (laiden with genocide, kidnapping and abuse) reamins forgotten by many.

There should be much more recognition for their people,

They were the first to go (be rather be killed off), They certiainly shouldn't be the last rememebered.

[vampiregirl1080]

thanks for posting needed it for my hw

[JayBarrington]

Nakoma fro Pocahontas sounds really young here

[CaBanna2011]

wow haven't seen this movie in a long time.thanks who ever posted this :)

[WindsorOntario519]

@fanniemaeflippers This was required viewing for us in grade 9. I believe it is so relevant today - whether it's about First Nations, gay and lesbian people; anyone who has been and continues to be dehumanized by society and the church. Maybe someday, some generation will learn that you do NOT do this to other human beings. Ever.

[greatedcorn]

such a good movie!

[deedeeman01]

@mania10766 we aint gone yet brotha...we still kickin...we just get confused with latinos haha :P

nah but for real most us natives are on the reserves...

[Malika704]

@theDUBSTEPvault

you're an ass

[broadwaymike92]

Michelle St. John who plays the Amelia in this did the voice of Nakoma in Disney's Pocahontas

[lesterclaypool1]

@amrit4900

I would think that a greater Asian Indian would be a little more sympathetic to an attempted genocide by outsiders upon a people. Then again, you have grown up in the cradle of Canada where you will never have to know about what your grandparents and greatgrandparents went through at the hands of Muslims and Europeans.

When your Sihk and Punjabi ancestors were killing their own daughters to keep them from falling into Muslim hands this was happening to Canada's aboriginal children.