Saul and his brother would quickly be forced into the bushes by their grandmother if a stranger ever came near sometimes having to stay in the bush for a day or so, their grandmother Naomi had seen other Indians be taken away to “the school” even Saul’s own mother, father, sister and eventually brother had been taken to “the school”. Racism and discrimination can already be seen affecting Saul’s life when he is a young boy. To discuss the theme of racism in Indian Horse, this essay looks at the character of Saul and how through his life and his hockey career racism and discrimination led him into a rehab facility after the extensive use of alcohol to control his pain the same pain many Indigenous people in Canada have felt.
Through racism and discrimination, one’s life can be drastically altered as it is easily a cause for someone’s inner pain. A lot of what Saul had experienced through his journey many Canadian Indigenous people shared the same fate. Saul’s journey begins with his childhood on the land, then is captured and taken to a residential school where he learns the great game of hockey through this talent for the game, Saul manages to escape from the residential school, taken in by a family he continues his hockey career until he is fed up with anger and sorrows from racism and discrimination which leads him to quit hockey and begin to drink his pain away.
The novel Indian Horse takes a look back at the character Saul Indian Horse’s life after his last run with alcohol led him to be checked into a rehab facility.
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