Indian Horse focuses on men in First Nations communities. Explain how women are represented and if and how they are central to

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Richard Wagamese feels every human is a storyteller, but the process of storytelling is manipulated by many of them for a better response from the audience. “The story should be told for the story’s sake.”, (50) said Wagamese. I claim that he uses cathartic process in his writings. Every character in his stories was a particular stage of his life and the dialogues were the words which he intended to speak. “If I ever run out of issues, maybe I’ll run out of writing.”, (123) said Wagamese. In the novel, Keeper ’n Me, Wagamese used a local dialect to get on with the story but people called it stereotyping which is not when trying to give an actual and active portrayal of speech (276). Wagamese often wanted to be recognized as a writer and columnist but being an Ojibway, he was treated as a native writer and native columnist. He expresses his distress by saying “I think that because I am who I am, no matter what I write, it’s going to be classified as Native literature, regardless.” (312).

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Richard Wagamese has known the power of words and effect on the outcome of the meaning if put in the right way (2). Being a writer, he realizes that telling a story with honesty and for the story’s sake requires a great deal of humility. Many people strive for emotional response or humor rather than telling the story how it came to them. “But in the traditional framework, what the oral tradition is built on, you try to forget all that and just very humbly tell the story. And the story itself gives you tools. It gives you humor. It gives you pathos. It gives you drama. It gives you wild fantasy. It gives you morality. It gives you a value structure.”, he added (96). His capacity of story-telling was elegant from his first book “Keeper ’n Me”. His writing demonstrated a storytelling ability that just grabbed you from the first page. He changed the thinking perspective towards being a writer in young children’s mind and giving rebirth to the traditional framework of writing the book. He was a storyteller that I'd looked up to since I was a teenager. … I would definitely not have become an author or a journalist without his influence.”, says Mr. Rice (172).

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To sum up the above paragraphs, although he was abandoned by his family, treated worse by the adopted family, living on streets or in jail his desire towards books and literature turned him into the first person to achieve the National Newspaper Award in the Indigenous writer category. Wagamese feels that the other way is excessively simple, since we include those mechanisms inside the TV and our publishing. For whatever length of time that you have a smidgen of First Nations blood in you, you naturally qualify. That makes it excessively simple but there is an opposite side of the story. There is a great deal that requirements to occur as far as narrating. Wagamese feels that the greater part of Native individuals in this nation, at any rate, are living transitional lives. Since we're not constantly associated that way, and in the event that we compose books that state that we are, we're dis-engaging our very own kin again in light of the fact that we're not enabling to envision ourselves as anything else.