In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) 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. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
as Komi / Amelia
as Anataki
as Komi's Mother
as Ka - moos - ee
as Pita / Abraham
as Grandmother
as Anataki's Mother
as Kathleen
as Priest
as Mr. Crawford
as Miss Weir
as Miss Appleby
as Asst. Supervisor #2
as Matron
as Mr. Babcock
as Rachel
as Esther
as George
as Rose
as Sarah
as Ruth
as Mrs. Barrington
as Komi's Father
as Rachel's Mother
as Reverend Buckley
as Taggart
