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Indian Horse
by Richard Wagamese
You will not enjoy reading this book. It's a sucker-punch to the gut. But you should read it, because it's a helluva good story, and it brings to light the terrible things that happened to First Nations children forced into Canada's residential school system.
150,000 were kidnapped from their families or otherwise forced to attend these schools. Diseases such as tuberculosis, not to mention suicide, lead to the deaths of at least 3,000, and probably 6,000 or more. Physical abuse was rampant, especially punishment for speaking native languages, and an estimated one in five suffered sexual abuse. The impacts of this horror - this cultural genocide - are still being felt today.
Indian Horse follows one of these children from boyhood into adulthood ... from his life with his Ojibway family keeping the old traditions and hiding from the white folks, to the destruction of his family and his life in a residential school, to his escape into the game of hockey, to his eventual flight from, and coming to terms with, his past.
150,000 were kidnapped from their families or otherwise forced to attend these schools. Diseases such as tuberculosis, not to mention suicide, lead to the deaths of at least 3,000, and probably 6,000 or more. Physical abuse was rampant, especially punishment for speaking native languages, and an estimated one in five suffered sexual abuse. The impacts of this horror - this cultural genocide - are still being felt today.
Indian Horse follows one of these children from boyhood into adulthood ... from his life with his Ojibway family keeping the old traditions and hiding from the white folks, to the destruction of his family and his life in a residential school, to his escape into the game of hockey, to his eventual flight from, and coming to terms with, his past.