First Nation suicides are twice the national average in Canada and are showing no sign in decreasing (Khan 2008). The ironic fact is that today there is a growing problem of depression and suicide among Indigenous adolescents, although, nothing is being done to resolve this present day and very real issue. Their lack of ability to dream caused severe depression among the masses, which lead to a suicide crisis that the government of Canada was determined to resolve. The decision made by the government to harvest Indigenous people’s bone marrow was a result of an epidemic caused by an increasingly high suicide rate among non-Indigenous people from the loss of being able to dream. Throughout the text Dimaline continues to show readers the importance of dreams and how they are a representation of hope among people.
Something that we see throughout the whole novel is the concept of how important dreams and the act of dreaming are. After it is discovered by non-Indigenous people that the cure to regain the ability to dream is from the bone marrow of Indigenous people, this causes them to be hunted, harvested and inevitably go on the run. In this world everyone has lost the ability to dream everyone except Indigenous people. The $25,000 recognizes the accomplishments of a fiction writer in the middle of her career.The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline is a dystopian novel that takes place in a futuristic world that could take place not too far from our own present world. The sequel, Hunting by Stars, was published in 2021.ĭimaline won the 2021 Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award. The Marrow Thieves is currently being adapted into a TV series and it was named one of Time magazine's top 100 YA novels of all time. Her other books include Red Rooms, The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy, A Gentle Habit and Empire of Wild. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline was defended by Jully Black on Canada Reads 2018.Ĭherie Dimaline is a Métis author and editor. But what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. The Indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks.
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