Indian horse
About this book
Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother--and then his home itself. Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and cruelty. At the urging of a priest, he finds a tentative salvation in hockey. Rising at dawn to practice alone, Saul proves determined and undeniably gifted. His intuition and vision are unmatched. His speed is remarkable. Together they open doors for him: away from the school, into an all-Ojibway amateur circuit, and finally within grasp of a professional career. Yet as Saul's victories mount, so do the indignities and the taunts, the racism and the hatred--the harshness of a world that will never welcome him.
Subjects
- athletes
- canada, fiction
- canadian hockey stories
- coming of age
- englisch
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- first nations
- hockey players
- hockey stories
- indians of north america
- indians of north america, fiction
- indigenous peoples in canada
- literary
- native american & aboriginal
- off-reservation boarding schools
- ojibwa
- ojibwa indians
- racism
- residential schools
- roman
- sports