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Maryanne Panacheese
Cheyenne Linklater was Robyn Harper’s boarding parent and an on-call member of the NNEC in Thunder Bay, Ontario. On the night of Robyn’s death, Cheyenne was on-duty, driving around Thunder Bay in an NNEC van to keep a lookout for any wayward students who needed a ride home. There is security camera footage of Cheyenne and fellow NNEC member David Fox driving Robyn and Skye Kakegamic home from the bus terminal where Skye brought a drunken Robyn—but Cheyenne later insisted that she hadn’t picked the girls up and had only returned home at 4 a.m. after the conclusion of her shift. Tanya Talaga implies that had Cheyenne and David done more for the lethally intoxicated Robyn—and had the Thunder Bay police not made themselves so untrustworthy in the eyes of Thunder Bay’s Indigenous community—Robyn might have lived.
Cheyenne Linklater Quotes in Seven Fallen Feathers
The Seven Fallen Feathers quotes below are all either spoken by Cheyenne Linklater or refer to Cheyenne Linklater. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6: We Speak for the Dead to Protect the Living Quotes
At the inquest, […] the lawyer for six of the seven families bluntly stated Robyn's death was no accident—he called it a homicide. […] Homicide, in a coroner's inquest, does not require proof of intention—it is simply the killing of a human being due to the act or omission of another. […] [The lawyer] stated categorically: "We hold NNEC responsible for what happened to Robyn. There is no question the NNEC is trying its best, and there's not a lot of money, but they did have services they held out to be capable and competent and they were neither.""
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Cheyenne Linklater Character Timeline in Seven Fallen Feathers
The timeline below shows where the character Cheyenne Linklater appears in Seven Fallen Feathers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6: We Speak for the Dead to Protect the Living
David Fox, a counselor from the NNEC, arrived and helped Robyn into his van. Cheyenne Linklater, who was Robyn’s boarding parent and an NNEC on-call member, arrived and offered Skye...
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It was 10:30 p.m. when David and Cheyenne brought Robyn into Cheyenne’s house and laid her on her side in the hallway. At...
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An ambulance was dispatched to Bryan and Cheyenne’s home on January 12, 2007, at 8:59 a.m. Robyn wasn’t breathing, and her skin was...
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Chapter 7: Brothers
...wasn’t cared for or known well by the NNEC members in charge of monitoring him. Cheyenne Linklater, Robyn Harper’s boarding parent, was the one to report Reggie missing, but she didn’t...
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...look around the city for him. When they still couldn’t find Reggie, the group contacted Cheyenne, who called the police later that night. The police brought Ricki in for questioning several...
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