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The Indigenous people of Canada and the United States, including the Cree and Ojibwe people. The Anishnabe speak languages belonging to the Algonquin family, although many are now extinct, which is further proof of the cultural erasure Boyden critiques in Three Day Road. All the Indigenous people in the novel are Anishnabe, and the Cree language is represented throughout. Boyden even includes a Cree translation for each of the chapter titles, again highlighting Indigenous culture by making it more visible.
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Anishnabe Term Timeline in Three Day Road
The timeline below shows where the term Anishnabe appears in Three Day Road. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Noohtaawiy: My Father
...tells Xavier of a cold and dark winter, long before he was born, when thirty Anishnabe lived in the same camp. They usually wintered in much smaller numbers, but the previous...
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Kimociwinikewin: Raid
Weesageechak is a legendary “trickster” in Anishnabe culture and can take “different forms at will.” The white traders could never pronounce the...
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Tapakwewin: Snaring
...are other Lisettes,” Elijah says. In the pub, Elijah and Xavier see another Indian. He’s Anishnabe, an Ojibwe, from the looks of it.
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“Wachay, wachay,” Elijah says to the Indian. The Indian, a corporal, looks at them. “Three Anishnabe in the same place,” he says. “Some things are beyond chance.” Elijah assumes the man...
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