His siblings were abducted, taken to white Christian schools, and taught the white man’s culture (Wasyliw, 2007). Saul’s family disintegrated early in his life due to the white Canadian’s kidnappings. The author introduces the theme of racial discrimination early in the story using the protagonist’s early life experiences. Saul Indian Horse faces a tough childhood as an indigenous Indian in an era characterized by white dominance and increased racial prejudice. Richard Wagamese uses the theme of racial discrimination, which is the cause of self versus society affecting Saul, and a motivating factor to self-conflict seen in Saul’s alcoholic character as he battles to find his identity. Saul faces two significant conflicts throughout the novel: the self versus society conflict and the self-conflict (conflict within himself) as he struggles to find his identity (Miroux, 2019). In the story, Richard Wagamese tries to use Saul to explore the particular conflicts he faces, their impacts, and how he addresses them to create meaning, thus delivering the intended message to the readers (Wasyliw, 2007). Saul Indian Horse is the story’s protagonist and endures a lot of pain and suffering, mainly due to his race and cultural heritage highly disliked during this era. The novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese explores the life experiences of the Indigenous Canadian, Saul Indian Horse, in Canada in the 1960s (Wagamese, 2018).
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