Native American Books
The Marrow Thieves is a futuristic young adult novel. After the world’s population loses its ability to dream due to global warming, society is driven into chaos. The only Indigenous people are able to dream, and they come under threat as their marrow holds the cure to dreamlessness. A brave fifteen-year-old and his friends fight against “marrow hunters” who hunt down their people and seek to take their lives to steal the precious powers they possess.
Cherie Dimaline is a Métis writer and activist from the Georgian Bay Métis Nation in Canada. She has said of her identification, “I would love to be recognized as a writer of Indigenous stories. I’m not a Canadian writer. This is what is now known as Canada; it means something different to and for me.