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Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese is a textbook available to read on EtoBox.
What is Indian Horse about?
A magical new novel from the best-selling author of One Native LifeSaul 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.Author Richard Wagamese traces the decline of a culture and a cultural way with compassion and insight. 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. Drawing on his great-grandfather's mystical gift of vision, Saul Indian Horse comes to recognize the
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It is typically read by students working through coursework and study material.
Common subject areas: STEM, medicine, law, business.
- Author
- Richard Wagamese
- Publisher
- Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Category
- textbook
- Subjects
- Fiction, Others
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (5,992 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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