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 »



Komi:
Dear Jesus, if this is a bad thing, I hope you forgive us. [smiles as Esther begins ritual]

Esther:
You are my friend and now we are sisters. The moon is our grandmother. She brings... she brings...

Komi:
...life to the earth.

Esther:
- life to the earth and the dew of the night as you will bring life to the earth. You are Amelia and now you will be - what should I call you?

Komi:
You say.

Esther:
I don't know. What did your name used to be?

Komi:
Astokomi.

Esther:
And now you will be Astokomi, again. Even when we become stars in the sky and your daughters and in their daughters, where you have given life, you will live forever.

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