It features a dystopian near future where non-Indigenous people have lost their ability to dream, which has led to widespread madness. Eating the bone marrow of Indigenous peoples, who are unwillingly harvested for the cure in marrow-harvesting factories (not unlike residential schools). Dimaline had just won a Governor General’s Literary Award for her dystopian novel The Marrow Thieves and was celebrating at her publisher’s office. And there’s different protocols and permissions that come with Indigenous stories. There are hundreds of communities out there — different world view, different language, different ceremony — and I can’t be the pan-Indigenous spokesperson.

Source: thestar November 06, 2017 21:56 UTC