
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