

However, he intentionally wrote the story with the clear, straightforward language of journalism because In an interview with the Calgary Herald in 2012, Wagamese said that he originally set out to write a book about hockey “with a residential school as a very, very nebulous kind of background.” The story later evolved with the residential school as a central focus. Although he did not experience the residential school system himself, he suffered from residual generational traumaĪs his mother, aunts and uncles were survivors.

To the “emotional territory” that the novel covers. Indian Horse took Wagamese a little longer to write than usual - more than three and a half years - and he attributes this He also wrote five non-fiction books and a poetry collection, and has worked as a journalist.

Indian Horse is Richard Wagamese’s sixth of seven novels.
