Even when he finally releases Riri, he does not care about her safety in the story Dimaline says, “The older man bound himself, bending his arm so that RIRi would suddenly fall down.
She was struggling to rescue herself from the man, and even when Miig tried to shout that he let Riri free, he pointed a gun to silence her (Dimaline 118). From the story, Travis grasped Rir’s neck to the point she could not breathe, her legs kicking in the air and her face turning red. Riri was also subjected to pain by Travis and his companion. In the novel, Dimaline tells of Wab, who was sexually abused and went through physical violence at the hands of the Canadians. From the story, “The scar had tangled itself into raw seam that shut the socket forever” (Dimaline 72). Wab’s scar is a constant reminder of the violence and trauma she experienced for being an Indigenous person. The master has therefore dehumanized the indigenous people and made them undergo physical violence and emotional pain at the hands of the whites. In Canada, indigenous people are treated as commodities and as something less than human. The master, in this case, is the Canadians, while the enslaved people are the indigenous people who are treated as a tool for the profit of the master. The instances of harassment that the Indians are going through in the novel show that the relationship between the Canadians and the indigenous people is that of a master and a slave.
In the novel The Marrow Thieves, Dimaline criticizes the present by highlighting Canada’s relationship with the indigenous peoples and how Canadians treat the environment. Rising seas have eroded the coast, and large lakes have been devastated by pollution and the explosion of oil pipelines. The landscape of North America has been entirely transformed by climate change. Mitch and his companions are seen hiding from place to place to escape humiliation by the Canadians. Frenchie, a character in the story, is in their hiding place with his brother Mitch waiting for the Truancy agents to pick them up. As a result, the non-dreaming group is hunting the indigenous people for their bone marrow to benefit from it. The Marrow Thieves is a story by Cherie Dimaline that illustrates a situation where many people, especially Canadians, have lost the ability to dream.
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