Release Date

06 Jun, 1990

Runtime

01:36: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...

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.

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Actors

Michelle St. John

Kim Bruisedhead Fox

Marianne Jones

Gus Chief Moon

Clayton Julian

Margaret Cozry

Marge Fox

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Sean Mulcahy

Sam Malkin

Doris Petrie

Chapelle Jaffe

Tina Louise Bomberry

Barbara Wheeldon

John Friesen

Heather Hess

Cynthia Debassige

Franklin Doss

Darlene Shilling

Margaret Martina

Sarah Williams

Crew

Jane Manchee

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Nicole Demers

Arlene Berman

Perry Kutsch

Valanne Ridgeway

Keith Ross Leckie

Paul Stephens

Mary Young Leckie

Bruce Pittman

Sylvie Krasker

Nancy Harvey

Tim Bider

Scott Shepherd