The Marrow Thieves

Marrow thieves

Explain How resdiential schools brought Trauama to the group using a quote.

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Many characters, including Miig, French and Rose, have heard stories of their families' histories in Canada's residential boarding school system. These schools tore Native children from their families and prohibited them from speaking their languages or practicing their cultural traditions. Physical and sexual abuse was also common, and the characters are still dealing with the legacies of these traumas, generations later.

"Soon, they needed too many bodies, and they turned to history to show them how to best keep us warehoused, how to best position the culling. That's when the new residential schools started growing up from the dirt like poisonous brick mushrooms." part 2

“Soon, they needed too many bodies, and they turned to history to show them how to best keep us warehoused, how to best position the culling. That's when the new residential schools started growing up from the dirt like poisonous brick mushrooms.”

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