Indian horse the book5/12/2023 Yet even without the physical abuse that surrounded these policies, Indian Horse also emphasizes the tragedy of the loss itself. Jerome’s illustrate how literal that “killing” could be policies that prohibited Indigenous language, religion, and dress could be enforced only through brutality. This is accurate to Canadian history-residential schools were built with the explicit purpose of “killing the Indian” in Indigenous people. While assimilation can happen gradually due to primarily economic and social factors, Wagamese emphasizes that the assimilation of Canadian Indigenous people into White settler culture was forced and violent. Assimilation, or the loss of group identity in favor of the dominant culture, is central to Saul’s story.
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