Dreamspeaker is a novel by Canadian author Anne Cameron under the pen name Cam Hubert.
His foster mother left him to starve and never brought him to the doctor, leaving him sick.
He ran away by hopping on a train and later meets a First Nations man.
In 1976 a television film was directed by Claude Jutra for the CBC Television drama anthology series For the Record, starring Ian Tracey as Peter Baxter.
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