Elijah and Xavier are getting into a train with the rest of their troop when the man in the uniform says to them “No Indians in this car. Secondly, as the story progresses, we see an unfortunate interaction between Xavier, Elijah and “the man in the uniform”. Again, it is clear to see how alienated the First Nations felt from the rest of society. In this quotation, we see that Niska thinks that in white people’s eyes, she looks like an animal that belongs in the wild and does not belong in a “civilized,” white town. Niska continues to walk through the town and says “I must look like a thin and wild old woman to them, an Indian animal straight out of the bush”. This is clear alienation and a clear intent to show Niska that she does not belong in the town. You can also see how the white people, or as Niska describes, the wemistikoshiw, make their pointing and staring obvious. Here, it is blatantly obvious that Niska feels alienated from the rest of society, all because she doesn’t share the same skin colour and values as the white people in the town. Niska says “They stare and point and talk about me as if they’ve not seen one of me before”. She feels as if she is the odd one out alienated from the rest of society. As Niska walks through the town, she feels all eyes on her. Firstly, Boyden starts the novel off with Niska, a Cree Canadian woman walking through a white-dominated town to get to the train station, where her beloved nephew, who is coming back from the First World War, is awaiting her.
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