Indian Horse (French: Cheval Indien in North America or Jeu blanc in Europe) is a novel by Canadian writer Richard Wagamese, published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2012.

[1] The novel centres on Saul Indian Horse, a First Nations boy who survives the residential school system and becomes a talented ice hockey player, only for his past traumas to resurface in his adulthood.

[1][2] Wagamese's best known work, Indian Horse won the 2013 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads.

When Saul's brother Benjamin suddenly returns after escaping a residential school, the family moves to Gods Lake, a remote region where their ancestors lived.

However, they face heckling and violence over their ethnicity, culminating in an incident near Chapleau, when a group of men beat and urinate on all of the Moose players except Saul, who they spare for his age and skill.

In Toronto, Saul attends the Marlboros' training camp and makes the team, but he begins to react violently to the incessant discrimination he faces there, and leaves after being benched indefinitely.

Saul returns to Minaki and takes a boat to Gods Lake, where he has another spiritual experience in which he speaks with his great-grandfather Shabogeesick, the first "Indian Horse".

According to Wagamese, he originally intended to write a novel solely about hockey, but the legacy of the residential school system gradually became a focal point of the story.

[4] In 2020, the novel's French translation (for North America), Cheval Indien, was selected for Le Combat des Livres, the French-language edition of Canada Reads.