![]() ![]() While his Ojibway culture is erased, except in his memories, Saul’s affinity for hockey elevates him to a higher plane. Jerome’s Indian Residential School in northern Ontario, where all that he “had known was replaced by an ominous black cloud.” Wagamese paints the sad stories of students whose heritage is slowly, forcefully eradicated, though Saul somehow finds respite on the dilapidated hockey rink, where his intuitive skill blossoms under the tutelage of a resident priest. ![]() Saul Indian Horse is taken from his Ojibway family at age eight and placed in St. But perhaps no author has written a novel with such raw, visceral emotion about the lifelong damage resulting from this institutionalization as Wagamese, a Canadian author who died last year. and Canada throughout much of the twentieth century. Many indigenous authors have portrayed the horrific conditions endured by Native children in boarding schools in both the U.S. ![]()
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