num_pages: 221
description: Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him and now hes a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics surrounded by people hes sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace and he grudgingly comes to see that hell find it only through telling his story. With him readers embark on a journey back through the life hes 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 hes 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: English
title: Indian Horse
publisher: Douglas & McIntyre