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Indian Horse

byRichard Wagamese

Genres: Young Adult Historical fiction Memoirs

Who is this book for? Readers interested in Indigenous stories, coming-of-age narratives, and historical fiction.

Topics Cultural IdentitySurvivalRacism

MoodMelancholic, Reflective

ViolenceModerate

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he's a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he's sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he'll find it only through telling his story. With him, readers embark on a journey back through the life he's led as a northern Ojibway, with all its joys and sorrows. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man.

Language

Published on

01/02/2012

Pages

188

Format

paperback

ISBN

9781553654025

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