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.

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Cast

Michelle St. John

Komi / Amelia

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Kathleen

Sam Malkin

Mr. Crawford

Doris Petrie

Miss Weir

Chapelle Jaffe

Miss Appleby

John Friesen

Mr. Babcock

Patricia Collins

Mrs. Barrington

Graham Greene

Komi's Father

David Hemblen

Reverend Buckley

Ron White

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