Similarly erroneous is Netflix’s marketing of the film as a sports movie. Ice hockey does play a pivotal role in the journey of Saul Indian Horse, but this is no stereotypical against-all-odds sports ...

"Aggressive assimilation" was a policy developed by the government of Canada in 1880 to ensure that children from indigenous communities would be able to adapt to modern, mainstream society.

Saul Indian Horse is an alcoholic Ojibway man who finds himself the reluctant resident of an alcohol treatment centre after his latest binge. To come to peace with himself, he must tell his story.

Its story centres on Saul Indian Horse, separated from his parents in 1959 and taken to a residential school, to “have the Indian drummed out of him”, as someone gleefully puts it. Saul is ...

In Wagamese's most recent novel, Saul Indian Horse introduces himself rather formally in the first line of his "memoir": Anishinabeg, of the Fish clan, from the shores of the Winnipeg River.

The story of Saul Indian Horse is one that played out across Canada for several decades, where young First Nations children would be plucked from their communities and their families, and ...

"There was an actual dream, alternate-reality sequence in which Saul Indian Horse faces off in a one-on-one shootout with Vladislav Tretiak. It was very much a 'Shoeless Joe-does-hockey' kind of ...

Indian Horse follows Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.