Wagamese later described his family by saying "each of the adults had suffered in an institution that tried to scrape the Indian out of their insides, and they came back to the bush raw, sore and aching." His parents, Marjorie Wagamese and Stanley Raven, had been among the many native children who, under Canadian law, were removed from their families and forced to attend government-run residential schools, the primary purpose of which was to assimilate them to European-Canadian culture. The children left their bush camp when they ran out of food and firewood, and sheltered at a railway depot, where they were found by a policeman. At the age of two, he and his three siblings were abandoned by adults on a binge drinking trip in Kenora. In the essay "The Path to Healing", Wagamese described his first home as a tent hung from a spruce bough. It was adapted into a feature-length film, Indian Horse (2017), directed by Stephen Campanelli and released after Wagamese's death. He was best known for his novel Indian Horse (2012), which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013, and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads. Richard Wagamese (Octo– March 10, 2017, Ojibwe) was an author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario. Mushkotay Beezheekee Anakwat (Buffalo Cloud)īurt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature (2013)
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