
Winter sets in but the parents have not returned Naomi tries to lead Saul to Minaki for shelter, but their canoe is overturned in rapids. Benjamin soon dies of tuberculosis, and his parents take his body away on a canoe to be blessed by a priest, leaving Saul with his grandmother. When Benjamin suddenly returns after escaping a residential school, the family moves to Gods Lake, a remote region where their ancestors lived. In 1961, the Indian Horse family-an Ojibway family consisting of eight-year-old Saul, his grandmother Naomi, and his Christian parents John and Mary-live in the wilderness of Northern Ontario, hiding from the authorities, who previously took Saul's siblings, Benjamin and Rachel, to residential schools. ( February 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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