221 pages
English language
Published June 10, 2012
Indian Horse (French: Cheval Indien) is a novel by Canadian writer Richard Wagamese, published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2012. The novel centres on Saul Indian Horse, a First Nations boy from Ontario who survives the residential school system and becomes a talented ice hockey player, only for his past traumas to resurface in his adulthood.Wagamese's best known work, Indian Horse won the 2013 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads.A film adaptation, Indian Horse, was directed by Stephen Campanelli and premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. As of 2022, it is available for streaming on Netflix.
A very compelling and engaging read. Wagamese gently brings the reader into awareness of the deep racism of Canada, and conveys the real intergenerational trauma and family disintegration caused by residential schools.
