main literary device for the book

I think that there are a lot of historical allusions in the book. Throughout The Marrow Thieves, Dimaline refers to the traumatic and very real history of the Indian residential school system in Canada. The Canadian and United States colonial governments created these schools during the 1800s as a means of “kill[ing] the Indian in the child.” The schools were administered by churches. They forcibly tore children from their families and prohibited them from speaking their languages or practicing their cultural traditions. Physical and sexual abuse were common.