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the term stranger is in reference to the idea that no one really knows who a person truly is. Therefore their secret path (life) is a mystery. We as second parties will never fully be able to understand the story of someones life or who they were. Therefore we are all strangers on our own secret paths.

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the author used the crow's feather falling from the tree to symbolize the hair that Chanie's hair that he lost

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It about residential schools and how the boy feels like a stranger to this world. He has been stripped of his identity.

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Identity was taken

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The character became a stranger to his own family/culture & was a stranger at the Residential school 

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The character became a stranger to his own family/culture & was a stranger at the Residential school 

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He no longer knows who he

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I think that the meaning is that the residential schools did so much to take away student's cultural identity that they became strangers to themselves and their families that they were separated from.

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He will do anything to keep his identity - “I’m not gonna stop, I’m just catching my breathe”

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The message is that indigenous children were taken away from their homes and their identities were stripped away from them. They became strangers to themselves.

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Chenie became a stranger to his family, but also to himself

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That he is loosing his own identity and who he is

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The identity of stranger can be taken in a few different ways either the boy no longer identifies as a part of the indigenous culture as well as a stranger to those who never experienced his story.

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Doesn't even recognize himself

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Is also used as a symbol in literature to represent death.