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Anishnaabe
An Indigenous ethnic group that is native to Canada and some of the United States. The Métis are descended from Indigenous peoples and European settlers, especially French trappers, and have been recognized as a distinct group since 1982.
Métis Quotes in The Marrow Thieves
The The Marrow Thieves quotes below are all either spoken by Métis or refer to Métis. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Fire Quotes
I was nicknamed Frenchie as much for my name as for my people—the Metis. I came from a long line of hunters, trappers, and voyageurs. But now, with most of the rivers cut into pieces and lakes left as grey sludge puckers on the landscape, my own history seemed like a myth along the lines of dragons.
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Frenchie tells the reader how he got his nickname and notes that his cultural history seems like more of a myth than actual fact. It's particularly telling that he suggests that his history seems this way to him because of the trauma that's happening to the natural world. This suggests that Frenchie's history, and Indigenous history in general, is closely tied up in the land and in keeping the land healthy. This will support an idea put forward much later in the novel that the Indigenous people have the cultural knowledge to heal the land if they ever get the Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Ac
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Métis Term Timeline in The Marrow Thieves
The timeline below shows where the term Métis appears in The Marrow Thieves. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Fire
...adults in the group. Chi-Boy is seventeen and from the Cree lands. Frenchie is sixteen, Métis, and wears his long hair in a braid. There are twelve-year-old twins, Tree and Zheegwon,...
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