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-Essentially like Naomi in Indian Horse Minerva is the elder of Miigs group.

-Much like Saul in Indian Horse Frenchie questions his identity because of his lack of knowledge of his identity and relatives throughout the story.

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-Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

-The Stranger by Gord Downie

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-Although The Marrow Thieves takes place in a dystopian future, it's transparent that the author's inspiration is essentially based on the treatment of First Nations people in residential schools.

-Climate change is also an issue from real life that is in the story, climate change wreaks havoc on the Earth and contributes to the storyline of the continent-wide hunt and slaughter of Indigenous people for their bone marrow.

-The water crisis in First Nations communities because in the story when they are hiding from the recruits as well as the issue of climate change there is a lack of resources.

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Analyses (Social change/challenge to stereotypical or preconceived notions of indigeneity)

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Analyses (Social change/challenge to stereotypical or preconceived notions of indigeneity)

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-Miig holds the preconceived notion of the wise Elder or old Indigenous man who tells "stories".

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Family-For the main character Frenchie, family gave him direction to triumph through all he is going through and gave him hope.

Coming of age- In the chapter, the circle Clarence's nephew Derrick towers above Frenchie and boasts about how he is skilled and gifted until Clarence tells him to go get food. Clarence says that Derricks's behaviour is normal for his age and is just trying to seem as adult as possible.

Truama-In the chapter the circle Frenchie sits down next to dad and dad asks Frenchie what is wrong, Frenchie answers that he wants to find Minerva, but when dad asks why Frenchie snaps and says that they are all supposed to look for each other. Frenchie asks if he ever tried to look for him and his brother Mitch as at the beginning of the novel him and mitch get separated from their parents. Frenchie feels as though dad abandoned him, it also shows that Frenchie is fixating on emotional trauma rather than acknowledging that dad had to fight his way out of residential schools and had no way to locate them, therefore, he was unable to.

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-In the chapter Lost and found and lost when Minerva gets shot and as they attempt to save her and transport her into the van Rose takes Minerva's head into her lap and Minerva says "Kiiwen. Kiiwen, promise?" and begins to sing. The readers are told in the story Kiiwen means "go home".

- On page 200 Clarence was yelling for Frenchie's dad and says "Jean, astum!". Astum means "Come" or "come here" in Cree.

-On page 210 Rose refers to Minerva as Nokomis, Nokomis means "grandmother" in Ojibwe.

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-Funerals, dance, singing.

-Rose cutting her hair and Frenchie cutting off his braids to send to the afterlife with Minerva when burying her.

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-What was the effect of Minerva's death on the group in the present and in the long run?

-How does Miig's group finding the resistance group have an effect on all the characters?

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Observations (Specific textual references to course themes)

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Observations (Specific textual references to course themes)

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-In the chapter Kiiwen the groups bury Minerva and Rose "took scissors to her curls" and Frenchie then "cut my own braid off to send with Minerva". Sending a sacred part of his body to the afterlife with Minerva symbolizes the deep loss his group experienced. Cutting off your braid at a funeral symbolizes Indigenous individuals' connection to their ancestors, the Earth, their identity, and grieving.

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Observations-page #190 (Specific textual references to course themes)

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Observations-page #190 (Specific textual references to course themes)

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"What in the hell was she doing with that jerk? And why was she smiling so big? I puffed out my chest a bit, remembering that I still had the longest braids, even in this larger group. That made me a better Indian, after all." Because of Frenchie's longer braids, he believed between him and Derrick he was superior. Frenchie's braids were his source of pride at that moment and as far as he believes it signifies his identity as an Indigenous person which relates to our course theme of identity. The braid allows him to show his pride in his identity and use his pride to have more self-esteem.

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-Frenchie ultimately learns to take pride and honour in his identity as a young Indigenous man.

-Though Rose accepts some of Derricks's advances, she remains devoted to Frenchie and commands better treatment from him when he is acting hostile out of spite because of his jealousy of Derrick.