American Playhouse · SEASON 9
Where the Spirit Lives
Episode 15 · 1990-06-06
- Drama
- Comedy
Episode 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.
96 minutes
Season 9 episodes
1. Sensibility and Sense1990-01-24
2. Women and Wallace1990-01-31
3. The Wizard of Loneliness1990-02-07
4. Zora Is My Name!1990-02-14
5. In a Shallow Grave1990-02-21
6. Andre's Mother1990-03-07
7. The Wash1990-03-21
8. Triple Play1990-03-28
9. Break of Dawn1990-04-11
10. Prisoners of Inertia1990-04-25
11. Eat a Bowl of Tea1990-05-02
12. All God's Dangers1990-05-09
13. Sidewalk Stories1990-05-16
14. Bloodhounds of Broadway1990-05-23
15. Where the Spirit Lives1990-06-06
16. An Enemy of the People1990-06-13
17. Separation1990-06-27
18. Hyde in Hollywood1990-07-06
