![]() ![]() When these institutions are Christian, it’s even worse. I’ll never understand institutions that abuse children. It reminded me of The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. They die due to child abuse and are buried in the woods. ![]() The catholic nuns and priests who run the place are positively awful. The authorities caught Ben first and after a fateful trip, Saul was sent to Saint Jerome’s Indian Residential School. They didn’t want their kids to be sent to a school belonging to the Canadian residential school system. He spent his first years living according to the traditional Ojibway ways, as his family hid the children in the woods to avoid their kidnapping by the government. Saul was born in 1953 in an Ojibway family and had an older brother, Ben. His psychologist asked him to write his story to rid himself from its weight. Set in Manitoba and the north of Ontario, the book is the story of Saul Indian Horse who speaks from a rehab facility where he’s treated for alcoholism. ![]()
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