There Rose decides to leave and French runs after her. The devastated group buries Minerva and travels ten days before establishing a new camp. The group nearly manages to save Minerva, but at the last minute, a driver shoots her to death. Together the groups plan to rescue Minerva when her convoy passes a nearby highway. The song was comprised of all her dreams, also in her native language, which she recorded over the years. Members of the camp explain that Minerva managed to destroy the Recruiters' marrow-harvesting system by singing a song in her native language. There French reunites with his father, who has helped to re-establish the Native Council at the camp. But they turn out to be members of the Indigenous resistance group and they invite Miigwans and the youth to their camp. One night, a group of masked and armed people captures them. The group decides to travel toward a city named Espanola, where there is said to be an Indigenous resistance movement, in the hopes of getting information that will help them rescue Minerva. Shortly thereafter, Recruiters take Minerva in the middle of the night. The group encounters two Native traitors who work for the Recruiters, and this leads to the death of their youngest member, RiRi. Rose joins the group, and she and French eventually start a romantic relationship. Meanwhile, a quiet old woman named Minerva teaches the group some of their traditional language and culture.Īs the group travels on they encounter new members and lose others. He also teaches the youth skills like hunting so they can survive in the wilderness. Eventually, he explains that marrow harvesting is a process that kills its victims. Miigwans teaches French and the other youngsters about the history and present of the destruction of the earth and the oppression of Indigenous people. Together they travel northward, where Native peoples are said to be doing better. French wanders into the woods where a group of Indigenous people led by a man named Miigwans rescues him. Recruiters surround their hideout and Mitch sacrifices himself so that French can escape. To do so the government creates a system of schools, based on the old residential boarding school system.įrench and Mitch are Indigenous Métis brothers who have lost their father and mother. Only Native people still have the ability to dream, and the Canadian Government sets out to steal this ability through the extraction of Native people's bone marrow, which is where their dreams live. Half of the human population has died, and most have lost the ability to dream, leading to widespread madness. In this dystopian world, there are constant, torrential rains and many lands are no longer habitable. The Marrow Thieves takes place in a not-too-distant future in which the climate crisis has worsened signficantly.
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