Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse is an evocative depiction of personal and cultural identity growth amidst attempted individual and cultural genocide, abuse, and trauma. The story is set in the late 1950s and 1960s when residential schools were...

Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse illustrates the dark Canadian history of residential schools and demonstrates the lasting effects that forced enrollment had on its protagonist, Saul Indian Horse. Indian Horse emphasizes the psychological trauma,...

Perseverance is the hardest but most necessary quality for success; in fact, perseverance is a hard-earned characteristic for Richard Wagamese’s protagonist, Saul in his 2012 novel, Indian Horse. Saul is able to persevere through residential...

Aboriginal identity and the struggle to maintain it amongst other hostile forces is a major theme in Richard Wagamese’s novel, Indian Horse. The book charts the journey of Saul Indian Horse, a young Ojibway boy, as he is separated from his family,...

“Indian horse” presents how colonization and residential schools traumatized the first nations people. This trauma is evident in how people who had valued community and teamwork were suddenly separated and turned against each other. In how their...