Indian Horse

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"It's as though they were trying to scrub the "Indian" out of him. They dressed everyone in stiff white man's clothes"(Wagamese44).
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Saul witnesses the physical abuse of forced assimilation at the St. Jerome's. Children are scrubbed with scalding water and bristles as if the nuns could change their brown skin to white. They are forced to wear uncomfortable "white man's clothes" to change them from "savage" to "civilized".

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