The issue in the novel “The Marrow Thieves” by Cherie Dimaline that I decided to research are the residential schools that were in Canada. The first residential school opened in 1831. They were government sponsored schools run by the churches with the purpose of converting and educating indigenous youth so that they could be integrated into Canadian society. Residential schools took the lives of approximately 6000 children. Students were removed from their families and separated from their siblings. They were put in an environment where they were isolated from their culture and forbidden to…