Richard Wagamese's novel started out as a hockey story The film opens in theatres across Canada April 13, so we've gathered 10 fascinating facts - from the novel's inspiration to the elder actress who experienced the residential school system first-hand. Indian Horse is the highly-anticipated film adaptation of the novel by acclaimed Canadian author Richard Wagamese, and one that has already won multiple awards - including the People's Choice Award at the Vancouver Film Festival. But still, his past continues to haunt him.
His only solace comes on a sheet of ice, and his love of hockey eventually carries him to stardom. It's a fictional film, but delivers a story that's all-too real: in the 1950s, a six-year-old Ojibwe boy is torn from his family and forced into a residential school, where he is forbidden to speak his language and faces brutal punishment for the tiniest transgressions.
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