director:
Bruce Pittman
playwright:
Keith Ross Leckie
actor:
Michelle St. John
/
Kim Bruisedhead Fox
/
Marianne Jones
/
Gus Chief Moon
/
Clayton Julian
…
genre:
Drama
region:
Canada
language:
English
length: 1h 36m
release date: 1990-06-06
IMDb: tt0103244
Overview
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.