In her interview with Niranjana Iyer, Cherie Dimaline reflected on her conscious choice to write The Marrow Thieves into a young adult fiction, stating her hope that the work would reach young Indigenous readers making them feel less alone and out-of-place in the settler-colonial society. With its heartfelt language and engaging storyline, the novel touches on multiple themes in the Indigenous colonial and post-colonial history such as the reclamation and preservation of Indigenous languages, the Indigenous ways of knowing and family structures, the cyclical history of Indigenous oppression, etc., rendering the book an immediately well-received post-colonial literature.ĭefiance of the traditional Bildungsroman genre Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves was written roughly in that same year.
The last residential school didn’t close until 1996, and it wasn’t until 2008 that Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued an apology over this integral part of Canadian history, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was established with the purpose of documenting the history and impacts of the residential school system, publishing its final report in 2015. For the longest time, the truth behind the residential school system remained hidden from the public.
The Canadian Indian residential school systemįor over 160 years, the Canadian Indian residential school system played a major role in the settler-Canadian government’s regime to assimilate Indigenous communities into the Euro-Canadian culture, with the goal of eventually eliminating the “Indian Status”.
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