Indian Horse
What does Ben suffer from? Is this symbolic in any way?
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Benjamin suffers from tuberculosis which he would have caught at the residential school. It is symbolic of the disease that white men brought to the natives when they first arrived to Canada. They are still infecting aboriginal children.