We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where o… - Cherie Dimaline

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We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across. (p90)

Cherie Dimaline

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About Cherie Dimaline

Cherie Dimaline (/ʃəˈri ˈdɪməlaɪn/) (born 2 July 1975) is an award-winning writer of fiction. She is a member of the Georgian Bay Métis Council of the Métis Nation of Ontario.

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I learned very young that language and story are carriers of a much deeper reality, and that we have to fight for them the same way we fight to preserve culture and art.

She’d collected the dreams like bright beads on a string of nights that wound around her each day, every day until this one. (p173)

"...When we heal our land, we are healed also." (p193)

We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Wel… - Cherie Dimaline

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