{"id":92793,"date":"2019-07-27T00:25:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T00:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/indian-horse-a-small-but-huge-story\/"},"modified":"2019-07-27T00:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T00:25:46","slug":"indian-horse-a-small-but-huge-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/indian-horse-a-small-but-huge-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Indian Horse\u2019 a \u2018small but huge story\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7092a600-d387-4f02-bd86-eef7217e5f08&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1361\" alt=\"\u201cIndian Horse\u201d is based on the novel by Richard Wagamese.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">\u201cIndian Horse\u201d is based on the novel by Richard Wagamese.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Elevation Pictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>\u201cYou can\u2019t understand where you\u2019re going if you don\u2019t understand where you\u2019ve been,\u201d Saul Indian Horse says in the opening scene of the film \u201cIndian Horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And for Indian Horse, looking back meant dealing with the traumas of his youth in order to be able to move on as an adult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndian Horse\u201d is based on the award-winning novel by Ojibway author Richard Wagamese. It is directed by Stephen Campanelli, and Clint Eastwood is the film\u2019s executive producer. It\u2019s the story of Saul Indian Horse, who was taken away from his family in 1950\u2019s Ontario and sent to a Catholic Residential School, where like the Native American boarding schools in the United States, students were not allowed to speak their native languages or observe their traditions, had their hair cut and were subjected to horrific abuse.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/02cyFlnvA4s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It was during his time at the school that Saul was introduced to hockey by a priest who set up a rink in the schoolyard. Saul\u2019s incredible natural talent at the sport was his ultimate ticket out of the school and led him all the way to the pros. But his career was short-lived because of the overt racism he experienced and the past he couldn\u2019t escape.<\/p>\n<p>Albuquerque actor Forrest Goodluck stars as a teenage Saul, who is also played by Sladen Peltier (young Saul) and Ajuawak Kapashesit (adult Saul).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the full script and I read it, and I wasn\u2019t aware of the impact the book had in Canada, but after researching Richard Wagamese and learning about, of course, knowing about boarding schools in the United States and (learning) about residential schools in Canada, it was a story I really wanted to be a part of in any way possible,\u201d said Goodluck, who was also in \u201cThe Revenant\u201d and \u201cThe Miseducation of Cameron Post.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the get-go, I just knew I really wanted to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Goodluck, \u201cIndian Horse\u201d was a difficult movie to work on because of the content the film deals with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a super-tough film because it was around a three-month process from getting going to finishing. And it was trying to stay in that character, which, it was a different role: I had never had to delve into somebody who had been abused like that,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd for me, I can always talk about how hard or sad or difficult it was, but of course, it\u2019s nowhere near in comparison to people who have actually been through that, and speaking with them \u2026 it was more of a really humbling experience to be able to share someone else\u2019s story and step into those shoes, shoes I\u2019ll never be in, thankfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=812aee85-24c5-4f39-8796-6d7f732a97ec&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Forrest Goodluck plays a teenage Saul Indian Horse in the film \u201cIndian Horse.\u201d\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Forrest Goodluck plays a teenage Saul Indian Horse in the film \u201cIndian Horse.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Elevation Pictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Plus, Goodluck said, he had to brush up on his hockey skills for the role, practicing at a year-round hockey rink in Albuquerque.  He said that while there were hockey doubles on set for some of the more intense moves, a lot of what is seen in the film was actually him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was interesting because I could actually do the moves that he (the double) could do, so when we shot it, I would shoot the close-ups, and just for the more confident, faster moves, he would do the same thing, but they would cut between the two,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>And while there\u2019s some good hockey to be had in \u201cIndian Horse,\u201d there is a much bigger message Goodluck wants viewers to take away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think for people to understand the history, especially if they\u2019re from Canada,\u201d he said. \u201cMy philosophy is it\u2019s necessary to understand the history of the place that you are. I think watching \u2018Indian Horse,\u2019 there shouldn\u2019t be, I guess, guilt with that, but there should be understanding and there should be reconciliation for what was done to the original inhabitants. \u2018Indian Horse\u2019 is a small story, but it\u2019s a huge story in that it\u2019s a part of a larger system. I think stories like these are so important for people to understand the history, and hopefully, learn from it, and as clich\u00e9d as it is, not repeat what\u2019s happened in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:katie@durangoherald.com\">katie@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-scoreboard\">\n<h4 class=\"scoreboard-title\">Indian Horse<\/h4>\n<p>(Scheduled to play at Animas City Theatre)<br>\n                <strong class=\"mwc_breakout_text_bold_leadin\">Rating:<\/strong><br>\n                Not rated<br>\n                <strong class=\"mwc_breakout_text_bold_leadin\">Genre:<\/strong><br>\n                Drama<br>\n                <strong class=\"mwc_breakout_text_bold_leadin\">Directed by:<\/strong><br>\n                Stephen Campanelli<br>\n                <strong class=\"mwc_breakout_text_bold_leadin\">Written by:<\/strong><br>\n                Dennis Foon<br>\n                <strong class=\"mwc_breakout_text_bold_leadin\">Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/strong><br>\n                75%<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>details horrors of Canadian Residential Schools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5848,5845,5843,5844,5962,5847],"tags":[1167,28,1107,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclude-homepage-video","category-headlines-living","category-living","category-living-living","category-movies","category-newsletter-living","tag-exclude-homepage-video","tag-headlines","tag-movies","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92793"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}