A young Cree hunter. Micah takes his wife and baby into the bush to survive during a harsh winter. Game is scarce, however, and Micah and his family continue to starve. Micah becomes “desperate” and tries to catch fish to feed his family but freezes to death sitting on the ice. Micah’s wife is visited by the windigo (an evil Anishnabe spirit), and she eats Micah’s flesh and feeds it to her baby to save them the windigo.
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Micah Character Timeline in Three Day Road
The timeline below shows where the character Micah appears in Three Day Road. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Noohtaawiy: My Father
...camp relied on were scarce. Families began to consider leaving camp, and a young hunter, Micah, was the first to lead his family into the bush. Micah travelled west through deep...
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Micah’s wife heard “strange sounds” at night, like “groaning and shrieking,” and in the morning she...
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The next morning, after Micah failed to return to the lodge, his wife found him frozen dead by the river. ...
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The next day, after the hunters had already left, Micah’s wife came in from the bush. She was “flushed and healthy-looking,” and she claimed Micah...
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Micah’s flesh was removed from the pack and placed “high in a tree for the manitous...
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...do it,” Niska tells Xavier. Niska hid under an animal pelt as her father approached Micah’s wife. He whispered something in her ear, and she became calm. He put a blanker...
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...father that the Hudson’s Bay Company men were looking for him to question him about Micah’s wife and baby. They said that he had “murdered” them. Niska’s father laughed and ignored...
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Ka Nipihat Windigowa: Windigo Killer
...set out with the old awawatuk toward his camp. The man’s story was much like Micah’s, only it was the man that went windigo and ate his wife. Niska was nervous...
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