![]() ![]() ![]() With this, Dimaline pays particular attention to the specific ways in which white Canadians have historically targeted Indigenous people, and how, even decades after the official end of the residential schools, those same methods can prove to be just as effective and dangerous. She draws heavily on the history of Canadian residential schools, which operated in Canada in various forms for centuries, and goes to great lengths to show how this history would be shockingly easy to recreate under certain circumstances. ![]() While the novel is a work of speculative fiction, the dystopian future that Dimaline presents isn't complete fantasy. The novel follows Frenchie, a sixteen-year-old Métis boy, as he travels north with other Indigenous children, as well as middle-aged Miig and elderly Minerva. The Marrow Thieves introduces the reader to a horrific post-apocalyptic world in which the majority of the population has lost the ability to dream-everyone, that is, except Indigenous populations, which are being targeted, kidnapped, and taken to residential schools where their bone marrow (which holds the ability to dream) is harvested. ![]()
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