Themes in Three Day Road
Racial conflicts
War
Struggle through drug addiction
How to gain respect and be a hero
Cultural identity
Desire to kill
Captive Niska : Warning
funny hair cuts
solitude
defeat
Solitude
Morphine
Cree
eat off the floor
Murder of windigos is justified for the safety of the clan
White people
starvation
smiled when compared to a devil
scratchy dress
learn how to stomach wemisitkoshiw food
Niska rebels against the nuns and shaves off all her hair
shouting
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Used to instill authority for the nuns and humiliation for the Cree.
Xavier is trying to understand how the war works and why innocent people are being involved (beginning of the book)
Prejudice
Racism
Why people who don't know each other are trying to kill each other.
Not be called useless
Not be discrimiated after the war by the wemisticoshiw
Commences with a failed trench raid
In war, among the men, it doesn't matter who you are as long as you rake up kills.
How does Boyden show Native American culture?
Language barriers
Culture
Residential school (Chapter 8 - Learning)
Windigos
Assimilation
Niska communicates with spirits
They were treated like an inferior race
Clans
Unable to express themselves with the wemistikoshiw
relationships still exists between them (chapter 12 - Seducing)
Racism
Xavier kept a pouch of herbs and his mocassins when he went to war
In the army
Shaved
Living in the bush instead of staying on a reserve (Niska) to protect their culture
In everyday life
Xavier feels bad for burrying people in the ground, because in his culture they are put high up in trees so their souls can leave without barriers (page. 112: he says his own prayers for Sean Patrick when he dies)
Heathens
Can't speak their own language
Made to speak English
Have to do more to get the same as white peoples if not less
Have to be Catholic
difficulty in the war (communication struggles) (p.29 paragraph 2)
Slowly made to depend on the white people
Not given the same recognition
Using every part of the bear, because they worship this animal (chapter: my Father)
Finding where game will be by doing ceremonies with old bones
Has a proximity to nature demonstrated in the passage where Elijah compares the amount of trees burnt to the amount of casualties in this certain place
The nuns use violence
Learnt not to waste any part of an animal in respect
Solitary confinement
They beat the children
Identity
first nations identitiy
identity in the war
Hunting
being close to nature
respect towards elders
spirituality
respect towards animals
using every part of the animal
not killing some animals
Don't view Aboriginals as humans
veiwed as heathens
hunter
hunted
soldier
sniper
killed
killer
Elijah - prides himself in being almost barbaric
Xavier - Hesitates to kill and take action
Juxtaposition of Xavier and Elijah
Respect for life and FN values