Characters
This elder saves the group by singing in her language.
Who is Minerva?
Most people in this world have lost this important human ability.
What is the ability to dream?
The group temporarily stays at this abandoned resort
What is The Four Winds?
"Story" refers to this larger idea.
What is Indigenous history/culture?
Dreams are stored here.
What is bone marrow?
The leader of the group.
Who is Miigwan?
This environmental disaster caused polar ice caps to melt and oceans to rise.
What is the Great Melt?
This character is taken and killed after the group is betrayed.
Who is RiRi?
This word means 'go home' in the old language.
What is 'Kiiwen'?
This pouch is worn by a character representing his love and loss.
What is Miig's heart?
The character whose facial scar represents past trauma and survival
Who is Chi-Boy?
This global conflict happened because nations fought over water.
What are the Water Wars?
This character saves the rest of the group by sacrificing themself.
Who is Minerva?
A significant part of the telling of The Marrow Thieves that explain's several character's histories.
What is a coming-to-story?
What is trauma?
The character whose facial scar represents past trauma and survival.
Who is Wab?
These institutions were rebuilt to extract dreams from Indigenous Peoples.
What are residential schools?
The group eventually finds safety inside this hidden place.
What is the hill settlement?
Language is important because it preserves this.
What is identity?
This represents a character's internal struggle with survival.
What is the moose?
This character's coming-to story reveals abuse, resilience, and why trust is difficult.
Who is Wab?
Indigenous people hid their dreams in this part of the body in order to protect their culture.
What is bone marrow?
The death of this character symbolizes our narrator's loss of innocence.
Who is Travis?
The Cree man proves he is trustworthy to Frenchie by answering this question.
How do you dream?
The hill settlement represents these two ideas.
What is hope and resistance?