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He convinces Father Quinney to allow a new outdoor activity, ice hockey. Father Gaston Leboutilier seems to want to change conditions. In the school, Saul witnesses the nuns and priest instructors abuse the children, and struggles to survive. They forbid the boys to speak their Ojibwe language, beating Lonnie although he knows no English. The top official, Father Quinney, and his nun deem Lonnie an unsuitable name and call him Aaron. There, he meets a boy named Lonnie, who cannot speak English. When his grandmother dies, Saul is discovered by the authorities and forcibly taken to a residential school. After their canoe capsizes, they huddle to stay warm at night they continue their journey on foot through snow. Saul and his grandmother stay and camp, but once cold weather starts, his grandmother decides they must continue their trek toward their ancestral lands. When the boy dies, they take him away to be blessed by a priest, leaving Saul with his grandmother deep in the woods.
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His parents have converted to Christianity and believe that their eldest son will go to heaven.
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Saul resolves never to go to a residential school. The Indian Horse family, including six-year-old Saul and his older brother, retreat in canoes deep into the wild to avoid the authorities after Saul's older brother is left seriously ill by his time in an Indian residential school. He said that he regrets such actions, and has reformed since attaining sobriety in 2010. Strongheart has attributed his past actions to problems with drugs and alcohol. Minor controversy arose over the casting of Will Strongheart in the supporting role of Virgil in the film the actor was known to have a history of criminal domestic violence. The film was shot primarily in Sudbury and Peterborough, Ontario. Instead it premiered as a theatrical film after Super Channel filed for bankruptcy in 2016. It was originally slated for production as a television film to air on Super Channel. The film is an adaptation of the 2012 novel Indian Horse, written by author Richard Wagamese ( Ojibwe).