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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Introduction
o Brief summary of the book
o Define: Utopian and Dystopian
Thesis statement
o Arguments #1, #2, #3
Points to consider
Familiar light: residential schools in Canada (closed in 1996)
Shared persecution brings the group together (bond and form a real family)
o Consists of people of various indigenous identities
The term indigenous is troublesome = does not recognize the actual identities of
individuals
Story-telling roots in indigenous cultures
Idea of losing the ability to dream = loss of our unconscious aspects
o Wholly repressed
o Succumbed to a subjective indoctrination
Colonialism is inseparable from the story of climate change