In "Miigwans' Coming-to Story," Miig relays the tragic narrative of his husband Isaac's capture at the hands of the Recruiters. Miig and Isaac were betrayed by several fellow indigenous people seeking shelter, faking camaraderie all while they wore tracking devices, leading Recruiters to the door. Miig explains Isaac's naivety to Frenchie, recalling that Isaac had no familial memory of residential schools and, thus, did not anticipate the Recruiters' depravity. Miig, however, remembers stories of these schools. He uses a simile to describe their inhumanity to Frenchie:

I heard a sharp rap on the front door, and my heart jumped into my throat. Isaac didn’t have memories in his family of the original schools, the ones that pulled themselves up like wooden monsters coming to attention across the land back in the 1800s — monsters who stayed there, ingesting our children like sweet berries, one after the other, for over a hundred years.

Miig personifies residential schools as monsters, eager to gobble up and digest indigenous children. He likens the children to "sweet berries," tiny morsels that go down easily and quickly, capable of being consumed in large and greedy handfuls. Such schools were and are truly monstrous, examples of the inhuman villainy settler-colonialism enables.