Indian Horse

Indian Horse is a novel by Canadian writer Richard Wagamese, published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2012.[1] Wagamese's best known work, it won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013[2] and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads.[3]

For the film adaptation, see Indian Horse (film).
Indian Horse
First edition book cover
AuthorRichard Wagamese
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherDouglas & McIntyre
Publication date
2012
Preceded byRunaway Dreams 
Followed byMedicine Walk 

The novel centres on Saul Indian Horse, a First Nations boy who survives the Indian residential school system and grows up to become a star ice hockey player.[1] It follows Saul on his journey to self-awareness and self-acceptance, taking the reader along so that his painfully-grained insights also become the reader's.[4]

According to Wagamese, in the beginning, he intended to write a novel about hockey: he had played amateur hockey himself and still loved the game, but gradually the legacy of the residential school system became a focal point of the story. He said that writing the book took about five times longer than it typically would have taken him to write a book "because of the emotional territory it covers". Although Wagamese himself did not attend a residential school, he was still affected by that system because his mother, aunts and uncles were residential school survivors.[5][6]

A film adaptation, Indian Horse, was directed by Stephen Campanelli and premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[7]

In 2020, the novel's French translation Cheval Indien, was selected for Le Combat des Livres, the French-language edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Romeo Saganash.[8]

References
  1. "Indian Horse is a dark ride". Calgary Herald, February 28, 2012.
  2. "Richard Wagamese wins Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on March 28, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  3. "Newfoundland novel wins Canada Reads". Toronto Star, February 15, 2013.
  4. "Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese". Globe and Mail. February 17, 2012.
  5. "Indian Horse author Richard Wagamese wields the saving power of stories". Georgia Straight. February 22, 2012.
  6. "Indian Horse: 10 things about the groundbreaking new Canadian film". CBC Radio. April 12, 2018.
  7. "Film adaptation of Richard Wagamese's novel Indian Horse to screen at VIFF 2017". The Georgia Straight, August 23, 2017.
  8. Alexandre Vigneault, "Le combat des livres : c’est reparti". La Presse, April 21, 2020.
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