Please watch the movie in the link below and answer the following questions. Your response should be about 2-4 sentences for each question to receive full marks.

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1. The book Indian Horse is taught in grade 10 across Canada. The film is rated 14A, in most provinces, PG in Alberta. Yet the story of Residential Schools is the story of very young children being taken from their families. Discuss with your students how they might handle introducing these topics when teaching history to younger children.

2. In the later scenes in the film, Saul sees a familiarlooking person laying on a mattress in a laneway in the film. Is this Lonnie? The book and the film do not make it clear if it is or not. Discuss with your class. How does seeing this person affect Saul? What are the author and the filmmakers trying to say with this short scene?

3. On much of the Residential School material, including on the Indian Horse website, contact information is provided for “Residential School Survivor Support Line.” Why do you think this information is needed?

4. “When the present doesn’t recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. For that reason, we must never, never turn away from the opportunity of confronting history together – the opportunity to right a historical wrong.“ Governor General Michaëlle Jean, October 15, 2009. How does this quote relate to Truth and Reconciliation?

5. How does the symbol of hockey play a role in this story? Hockey equals Canada. Does the story affect the way you view hockey and the history of this country? Why was hockey not fully a ‘way out’ for Saul?

6. After a more challenging game a visibly unhappy Saul tells the team captain that “They got shocked seeing Indians skate. It’s their game. Not ours.” The captain responds, “They play for the same reason we do. For the feeling. Nobody owns that.” How might this quote be relevant to the idea of Reconciliation?

7. How does the image of the little plastic Indian figures being thrown onto the ice and the “war whoops” that erupt when Saul is playing affect him? What are some other examples of racism shown in the movie?

8. Does your family or a family you are close to speak another language at home? How would you feel if the government made a decision to erase this language and created policies to remove the freedom to speak with your family?

9. Do you know how many Indigenous languages and dialects are original to the First Nations peoples of the province you live in? Of Canada? How does it make you feel to learn that many of these languages are on the verge of extinction if they are not already gone?

10. How is the land connected to the healing of Saul? What are the various ways the government has removed the land from Indigenous people?