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Winner of the Canada Reads People's Choice award and the First Nations Communities Reads program and short-listed for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.
A Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2012
Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys.
With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. 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. Evaluated and Approved by ERAC
- Sales Rank: #425112 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Douglas n McIntyre
- Published on: 2012-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .70" w x 5.60" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 188 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Richard Wagamese is a born storyteller." (Louise Erdrich, author of Shadow Tag 2011-11-30)
"Wagamese writes with brutal clarity... [and] finds alleviating balance through magical legend." (Globe & Mail 2011-11-30)
"Wagamese is capable of true grace on the page." (Winnipeg Free Press 2011-11-30)
"Richard Wagamese is a national treasure." (Joseph Boyden, author of Through Black Spruce 2011-11-30)
"Richard Wagamese's writing is sweet medicine for the soul." (Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed 2011-11-30)
"Indian Horse is a force for healing in our beautiful, broken world." (Kathleen Winter, author of "Annabel" 2011-12-08)
"Wagamese captures the beauty of hockey as few sportswriters could hope to match." (Rob Kirbyson Winnipeg Free Press 2012-02-11)
"Wagamese pulls off a fine balancing act: exposing the horrors of the country's residential schools while also celebrating Canada's national game." (James Grainger Quill & Quire 2012-01-15)
"Indian Horse distills much of what Wagamese has been writing about for his whole career into a clearer and sharper liquor, both more bitter and more moving than he has managed in the past. He is such a master of empathy -- of delineating the experience of time passing, of lessons being learned, of tragedies being endured -- that what Saul discovers becomes something the reader learns, as well, shocking and alien, valuable and true. " (Jane Smiley Globe & Mail 2012-02-17)
"Richard Wagamese's writing is exceptional not only for its sensitivity but for a warmth that extends beyond the page. With a finely calibrated hand, he explores heritage, identity, nature, salvation, and gratitude in works that quietly celebrate storytellingís vitality and power to transcend." (David Chau Georgia Straight 2012-02-22)
"...raw and authentic." (Vancouver Weekly 2012-02-29)
"Richard Wagamese is a master storyteller, who blends the throb of life with spiritual links to the land, hard work, and culture to find success, his words take you into the soul of Indian Horse, to experience his pain, his growing resentments, his depression, and his fear which has to be faced if he is to regain the joy of life. This book is meant for youth, adults, and elders, to be shared, to be lived, and to be treasured for the clear message of hope and the need to go the distance." (Wawatey News 2012-03-01)
"...Wagamese alternates between horror and Hockey Night in Canada, like he's an all-star centre flawlessly firing backhand shots." (Telegraph Journal 2012-02-25)
"Indian Horse finds the granite solidity of Wagamese's prose polished to a lustrous sheen; brisk, brief, sharp chapters propel the reader forward. He seamlessly braids together his two traditions: English literary and aboriginal oral. So audible is Saul's voice, that I heard him stop speaking whenever I closed the book...Wagamese crafts an unforgettable work of art." (Donna Bailey Nurse National Post 2012-03-09)
"Saul Indian Horse is a tough Ojibway boy whose life seems doomed until he discovers hockey and becomes a brilliant skater with a killer wrist shot. But the star of the northern Ontario Indian tournament circuit -- even scouted by the Toronto Maple Leafs -- is goaded by racism into violence and booze and has to come to terms with the painful facts of his childhood. Indian Horse is a taut, closely observed character study with fabulous writing about our beloved sport. " (Marian Botsford Fraser More Magazine 2012-03-22)
"Wagamese has written one of the rarest sorts of books: a novel which is both important and a heart-in-throat pleasure." (Robert Wiersema Edmonton Journal 2012-04-21)
"...The hockey chapters are compelling; they evoke Sherman Alexie's fiction that examines contemporary life on American Indian reservations through the lens of basketball. But it is as a story of reconciliation that this novel reveals Wagamese's masterful subtly...In a single image, Wagamese complicates in blinding ways the entire narrative; in a single page, Indian Horse deepens from an enjoyable read to a gripping critique of Canada." (Kyle Carsten Wyatt The Walrus 2012-06-01)
"This book is so many things; it is a mystical tale; it is an ode to the good old hockey game and its power to lift players above their situations; it is a story of a system that fails and fails its children in horrifying ways; it is a story of healing...This is ultimately a hopeful and beautiful book and I recommend it heartily." (Susan Fish Guelph Mercury 2012-06-01)
"Wagamese's compelling novel harnesses two quintessentially Canadian themes, hockey and colonialism, to create an exhilarating and heart-breaking story. Indian Horse reads like 'powerful medicine, allowing vital teachings to be shared.'" (Yutaka Dirks Briar Patch Magazine 2012-08-15)
Evaluated and Approved (BC ERAC 2012-11-27)
"...to watch Richard Wagamese come home in this novel is to watch a phoenix climb. This man and this book are a part of the landscape." (Joseph Boyden Globe and Mail 2013-06-29)
About the Author
Richard Wagamese is Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Ontario. A member of the Sturgeon Clan, he is one of Canadaís foremost authors and journalists. He is the author of six novels, one collection of poetry and three memoirs. His most recent novels, Indian Horse (2012) and Medicine Walk (2014) were national bestsellers and published to brilliant reviews. Indian Horse was the People's Choice finalist in the 2013 Canada Reads competition. Richard has also been honored with the 2012 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media & Communications and the Molson Prize for the Arts in 2013. He lives in Kamloops, BC.
Most helpful customer reviews
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Rich with both reality and mysticism....
By AavidReader
As I started reading this book, I naturally compared it to Joseph Boyden (Three Day Road, Through Black Spruce, and my favourite --- Born with a Tooth), whose books have been like a door opening for me. I am a huge fan of Joseph Boyden, and I come from Northern Ontario, and so I was really hoping for a story with teeth. I found something unexpected. I was completely lost in this story; this young boy; his wounded life and family.
If I had known it was a hockey story at the outset, I may not have read it - but as it turns out, hockey is a metaphor for much that is happening in young Saul's life, and an opportunity for beautiful prose. It is both escape and trap; curse and salvation; a divine gift and a path. Hockey was a huge part of my family's life as I was growing up. My brothers played; everyone played. Still, as I read this story, I realized that I did not really see the whole picture of hockey in Northern Ontario. Sure, my town was completely multi-cultural - people from all over Europe and the world - came there to work the mines and lumber camps, and even so, this book helped me to realize that there was probably still a dividing line in many areas, and yes in hockey, that I was oblivious to.
But this book is much more than a story about hockey and redemption. The author paints a heart-wrenching story about the residential school system, without making it overly sentimental. I found that the story was not predictable, and I was still surprised and completely enthralled right to the last page.
The mystical moments were beautifully blended with reality,to make a remarkable book about a life's journey, that still leaves room for hope.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
"You've come to learn to carry this place within you. This place of beginnings and endings."
By Fairbanks Reader - Bonnie Brody
I recently read 'Medicine Walk' by Wagamese and it was so good that I rushed to read 'Indian Horse', another book of his. It was no disappointment. The writing soars and the story is one that evolves over time and speaks to generations of Native American and Native Alaskan children who have spent their childhoods in boarding schools.
As the novel opens, Saul Indian Horse is in a rehabilitation center for treatment of his alcoholism. He has hit bottom and his sponsor has asked him to tell his story. Saul is reluctant to share but, with time, and with a visit to his roots, the reader gradually learns his history.
Saul's great passion was ice hockey and he was so good at it that he made the NHL. He loved the game, the way it let him escape the poison in his mind, and he loved the camaraderie of the team. Soon, after joining the major league, he finds that he is feeling more rage and anger than enjoyment. He decides to leave the team just as his teammates and coach have decided to kick him out. Saul wanders from bar to bar, drink to drink, until he is so down and out that his life is without meaning. What happened to this man with the passion for the game, the lust to play hockey and soar with the sport?
The answer to Saul's descent lies in the narrative he tells to his sponsor once he returns to rehab after visiting his now crumbled boarding school, the places he lived as a youth, and his renewed connection to his Ojibway heritage. To say any more would be to provide spoilers. I highly recommend this amazing book that is the story of one man but is also representative of a whole generation of Native American children. It is an amazing book with insight and understanding of those who are culturally outcast by mainstream society. Saul's story is one that will lift your heart and wet your eyes. It is a book to cherish and remember long after the last page is read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
"We work to remove the Indian from our children..."
By Laurence R. Bachmann
Despite the terrifying efforts of Sister Ignacia to disinfect or bleach out his native heritage, Saul Indian Horse clings to his essential self. Despite appalling abuse and casual racism Richard Wagamese's remarkable hero endures. Indian Horse is Saul's story from early years with a nuclear family, through an orphanage work house, and the discovery of a brilliant gift. Adulthood sees this talent disdained and diminished by racism. Unwanted it withers like grapes unpicked. Potential atrophies; promise is unrealized.
We first meet Saul drying out in a clinic, exhausted by failure and worn down by six weeks of group therapy. His story though begins at age six with a family living a traditional native existence--their only threat the arrogance of whites who so despise Ojibway people as to abduct children, tearing families apart. The scenes of native life, and Saul's relationship with his grandmother are especially moving. They are in stark contrast to life in a Catholic reserve school. Priests and nuns epitomize the barbarism they claim to expunge from native Canadians. They behave with appalling cruelty. Sadly they are not an aberration but a microcosm of the greater world.
Saul's love and his gift for the game of hockey is beautifully realized and told. Shamanistic visions in the natural world are linked to Saul's natural athleticism. The magical and the personal gift are one. Ironically as Indian Horse's skills flourish, his teammates want them to be used to bring the Moose out of their segregated reserve world. They want to display them to the white man. They wish to preen. To show him they belong. The hatred they encounter is stunning, to both themselves and the reader. It will sear your soul. Sadly, but unsurprisingly Saul Indian Horse succumbs to the pressure. He stops playing his game and plays theirs. A tragic mistake. What was beautiful and separate is now sullied.
Wagmese's gifts as storyteller are as impressive as Saul's athleticism. Indian Horse is a disturbing book but it is not at all a depressing one. The author infuses it with a spirit (one is tempted to say Great Spirit) that is unflinching, but appreciative as well. Saul Indian Horse's greatest talent was not hockey. It was never mystical vision nor even the ability to endure. Saul Indian Horse has not become like his abusers. If he has harmed anyone it is only himself. And he is not as alone as he thinks. The recounting of the devolution into alcoholism and the journey back is absolute stunning, as powerful as anything I have read in years. Wagamese is a magnificent story-teller. Powerful and compassionate.
Happily, through all of this tribulation, they have not "remove[d] the Indian". He is bruised but not broken. He is not as alone as he thought. Saul Indian Horse has lost a step or two and never realized his potential. Yet life and the game remain beautiful still.
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