Indian Horse Chapter Presentation

Chapter 1

• Introduced "Saul" (the narrator)
• Saul is a member of the fish clan (tribe of the indigenous people)
• Saul is a hardcore alcoholic
• Lives in The New Dawson center (treatment facility)
• Saul's been sober for 2 months

Chapter 1

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Chapter 2

• They tell Saul's tribe story

• How Saul's family got his last name

Chapter 2

2

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

• Introduced Benjamin
• Explained who the "white men" are
• Told the story about what happened with Rachel
• Explained how Saul's parents cooped with Benjamin's disapearance

3

Chapter 4

• Saul's family moved away from the lake after Benjamin was abducted
• Saul's parents began to drink lots of spirits (alcohol)
• family continuously moves to new areas

Chapter 4

3

Chapter 5

• Benjamin returns from the school
• Benjamin is extremely sick
• Naomi insists on moving to Gods Lake

Chapter 5

3

Chapter 6

• They reach Gods Lake
• Benjamin starts getting better
• Saul notices the other families living on the lake

Chapter 6

3

Chapter 7

• Saul is taught how to braid hair
• The rice moon comes
• They begin to harvest all the rice grown
• Benjamin begins getting extremly sick again, and is pronounced dead the next morning.

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Family & Tradition

Theme

~ Important role in Saul's life

~ The family believes that there are spirits on lakes and in forests

~ Family sees visions

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Cultural genocide

Theme

Saul Indian Horse attends an indigenous school called St. Jerome’s, where he experiences firsthand the viciousness of the cultural genocide that took place in Canada.

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Abuse & Trauma

Theme

Toward the end of Indian Horse, Saul remembers some information about St. Jerome’s. As a child, his beloved mentor at St. Jerome’s, Father Gaston Leboutilier, sexually abused him. Saul’s shocking realization cements trauma as one of the key themes of the book.

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Top Left (blue portion)

• Blue represents sadness
• A forest
• the tress look torn done
• Hockey rink

Blue

Top Right (gray portion)

Gray

• Gray represents mourning a loss
• It also represents being emoitionless
• Foot steps in fresh snow

Bottom Left (red portion)

Red

• Red represents passion and anger
• a boy skating with speed on ice

Bottom right (green portion)

Green

• Green represents nature
• a group of boys skating together, isolated from the boy in front of them