The master has therefore dehumanized the indigenous people and made them undergo physical violence and emotional pain at the hands of the whites. In Canada, indigenous people are treated as commodities and as something less than human. The master, in this case, is the Canadians, while the enslaved people are the indigenous people who are treated as a tool for the profit of the master. The instances of harassment that the Indians are going through in the novel show that the relationship between the Canadians and the indigenous people is that of a master and a slave. In the novel The Marrow Thieves, Dimaline criticizes the present by highlighting Canada’s relationship with the indigenous peoples and how Canadians treat the environment. Rising seas have eroded the coast, and large lakes have been devastated by pollution and the explosion of oil pipelines. The landscape of North America has been entirely transformed by climate change. Mitch and his companions are seen hiding from place to place to escape humiliation by the Canadians. Frenchie, a character in the story, is in their hiding place with his brother Mitch waiting for the Truancy agents to pick them up. As a result, the non-dreaming group is hunting the indigenous people for their bone marrow to benefit from it. The sequel to The Marrow Thieves, Hunting by Stars, was published in 2021 and was shortlisted for best YA book by the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Awards.The Marrow Thieves is a story by Cherie Dimaline that illustrates a situation where many people, especially Canadians, have lost the ability to dream. The Marrow Thieves was defended by Jully Black on Canada Reads 2018. It is currently being adapted for television. In 2017, The Marrow Thieves won the Governor General's Literary Award for Young people's literature - text and the Kirkus Prize for young readers' literature. Her book A Gentle Habit was published in August 2016.

In 2014, she was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and became the first Aboriginal Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Her first book, Red Rooms, was published in 2007, and her novel The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy was released in 2013. Cherie Dimaline is a Métis author and editor whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally.

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline