A short time later, Minerva allows herself to be captured so that the remainder of the group is safe. French kills the other informant and the group has to run for their lives. French and his group encounter two of these informants, and one of them kills himself and RiRi when they fall off a cliff.

They alert the Recruiters when they encounter other Native Americans.

The others, including French do their best to protect both Minerva and RiRi.īy this time, some Native Americans have become informants for the government. RiRi is frustrated that she is still too young to know the full truth about the history that brought them to this point. She is a toddler when French arrives and is seven by the time the main story line opens. The youngest member of the family-group is RiRi. She is respected though she seems to provide very little in the way of support to the group. The oldest member of the group is Minerva, who is often carried by some of the stronger young people. Miig and his partner, Isaac, were living in the wilderness when Recruiters captured Isaac. By the time French is 16, he is a strong young man who is learning the ways of the Native Americans, and he is an accepted member of the family-group led by Miig. A group of Native Americans, led by Miigwans (called Miig), discovers French and nurses him back to health. Very young and on his own in a hostile world, French is soon too sick to survive on his own. Mitch sacrifices himself so that French can escape. The agents, called Recruiters, use any means necessary to track down and capture Native Americans, including turning some members of this cultural group into informants.įrench is a youngster who is on the run with his brother, Mitch, when the Recruiters find them. The result is that Native Americans are running for their lives as an entire branch of government has been created to hunt them down and harvest them for their dreams. The government discovers that Native Americans can be harvested for their dreams, though each person is reduced to the contents of a single vial in the process.

The exception is the Native American population, because they have somehow retained their dreams. The general population of this futuristic world have lost their ability to dream, and the lack of dreams is driving people mad. Note: Chapter numbers have been added in this guide for clarity.Dancing Cat Books, Toronto, Canada, 2017. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Dimaline, Cherie, The Marrow Thieves.

The marrow thieves