The Marrow Thieves (Marrow Thieves #1)

by Cherie Dimaline

How would he know?

Simile? Weird

watched the sky betray me into navy.

Betray me? Question

Maybe the end is just a dream.

Simile good ine

Wab,

Zheegwon,

Miigwans,

I was embarrassed to be so broken in front of all these new Indians.

They just let me be broken,

Miig

Simile silly

I saw webs clotted with dreams like fat flies.

Simile

Simile

RiRi,

Simile

Simile unhelpful

Minerva,

Simile smoke signals? Haha

Simile

Too many metaphors and stories wrapped in stories. It could be exhausting, talking to Miig.

Simile unhelpful - many tree stumps are huge.

Simile ok

what was left of the natural landscape beyond the clear-cuts stripped of topsoil.

trading off on the traplines.

Question

Chi-Boy,

Simile unhelpful -compared to a human, a die is pretty fat.

Frenchie

the Metis.

Simile good

Tree and Zheegwon,

Slopper

She mile weird

Wab,

a vicious keloid slash

R...

Us kids, we longed for the old-timey. We wore our hair in braids to show it.

We made sweat lodges out of broken branches dug back into the earth,

Why? “the understanding that was withheld from her youth so that she could form into a real human before she understood that some saw her as little more than a crop.” 26

Simile ok

“Anishnaabe people,

We welcomed visitors, who renamed the land Canada. Sometimes things got real between us and the newcomers.

Sometimes we killed each other.

Simile

they decided they liked us there, on our knees. And that’s when they opened the first schools.

“We suffered there. We almost lost our languages. Many lost their innocence, their laughter, their lives.

But we got through it, and the schools were shut down. We returned to our home places and reb...

much pain drowned in forgetting that came in conv...

classrooms we built on our own lands and filled with our own words and books.

“Then the wars for the water came. America reached up and started sipping on our lakes