Across
- 4. What the residential school system tries to erase from Indigenous children.
- 5. What Saul’s early years with his family and later life at school are all about.
- 7. Saul first learns to skate on a frozen pond near a moose trail.
- 8. Saul’s early life centers around his tight-knit but struggling relatives.
- 10. The sport that becomes Saul’s escape and passion.
- 11. What sets Saul apart in the sport of hockey.
- 12. The priest at St. Jerome’s who introduces Saul to organized hockey and encourages his talent.
- 15. The identity Saul is forced to suppress at the school.
- 17. The type of school Saul is forced to attend.
- 18. The surface where Saul first learns to skate and play.
- 20. The area where Saul's family tries to live traditionally before being separated.
Down
- 1. What Saul and others suffer at the hands of school staff.
- 2. The name of the residential school Saul is taken to.
- 3. Saul and the other children are punished for speaking their own.
- 6. The word used to describe white settlers or outsiders.
- 9. A constant feeling Saul experiences after being removed from his family.
- 13. Saul joins a team after impressing older boys with his skill.
- 14. What Saul does obsessively to improve his game.
- 16. What hockey becomes for Saul — a way to leave trauma behind.
- 19. The protagonist, a young Ojibwe boy with a gift for hockey.