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 »



Reverend Buckley:
I imagine you've already been imbued with Mr. Babcock's liberal vision of education for our little brown children of the prarie?

Kathleen:
Well, yes he...

Reverend Buckley:
The fact is a liberal approach isn't very effective in our work here. It's kindness that only prolongs despair. These children come to us from a dead culture. It's like a noose thrown around their necks, our job is to remove this terrible burden and give them their freedom. I'm sure if you understand that, you'll find your work here very rewarding, indeed.

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