Where the Spirit Lives

     

Where the Spirit Lives1989

Genre: Drama
Where the Spirit Lives (1989) is a TV movie about Aboriginal children in Canada being taken from their tribes to attend residential schools for assimilation into majority culture. Written by Keith Ross Leckie and directed by Bruce Pittman, it aired … more »


Kathleen:
You must find it very satisfying to be helping these poor children get a good education. Learn to read and write and have a wider understanding of the world?

Taggert:
Did they tell you anything about this school or about teaching the Indians?

Kathleen:
Yes, of course. It's a fine Christian institution doing God's work and the children - well, children are the same anywhere. They need love, patience and careful guidance... And just why are you grinning at me like a great ape?

Taggert:
Well, ma'am, it's just been a long while since I heard horse dung piled so pretty.

Kathleen:
Well thanks be to God that a cynical man like yourself is not teaching these poor children!

Taggert:
Thanks be to God. I wouldn't have the stomach for it.

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