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American Playhouse•Season 9•Episode 15

Where the Spirit Lives

Jun 6, 199096 min

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

Directed byBruce Pittman

Written byKeith Ross Leckie

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Seasons13

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Season 9 Episodes18

Sensibility and Sense

Women and Wallace

The Wizard of Loneliness

Zora Is My Name!

In a Shallow Grave

Andre's Mother

The Wash

Triple Play

Break of Dawn

Prisoners of Inertia

Eat a Bowl of Tea

All God's Dangers

Sidewalk Stories

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Where the Spirit Lives

An Enemy of the People

Separation

Hyde in Hollywood

Crew2

Bruce Pittman

Bruce Pittman

Director

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Keith Ross Leckie

Writer

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Episode Summary

"Where the Spirit Lives" is episode 15 of American Playhouse season 9. Directed by Bruce Pittman and written by Keith Ross Leckie, it aired on June 6, 1990.

Next: E16 · An Enemy of the People Best of Season 9