5 things to read, watch and listen to after reading The Marrow Thieves

Beneath Cherie Dimaline's story of a dystopian future lies a narrative about risky journeys. The Indigenous characters in the Canada Reads shortlisted YA novel, The Marrow Thieves, are constantly on the run from recruiters who hunt them for their marrow, which helps non-Indigenous people dream.

Dimaline's novel will be defended by singer Jully Black on Canada Reads 2018.

• Why Jully Black thinks The Marrow Thieves should win Canada Reads

Like The Marrow Thieves, the list below brings together narratives where people travel not only to explore, but to also survive and grow.

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Read: A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette, Scott B. Henderson andDonovan Yaciuk

A Mtis girl bounds across time, between her classroom and buffalo hunt, in A Girl Called Echo. Penned by Canada Reads 2017 finalist and author of The Break, the graphic novel depicts Indigenous history as a living thing and not a list of facts in a textbook.

• How Katherena Vermette combined Mtis history with sci-fi to write her first graphic novel

Read: The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

Set in the Pacific Northwest, the novel The Lost Girls of CampForevermore follows five characters trying to make their way back to camp after being stranded on an island. The conversations and established relationships among them begin to change during and after their time in the wilderness, shaking the foundations of their identities.

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Read: Those Who Run in the Sky by Aviaq Johnston

The journey in Aviaq Johnson's debut YA novel takes place during an important transition. Pitu, a young shaman, embarks on a trip to prove his skills as a leader of his community, but he stumbles into challenges he never expected when a snowstorm transports him to a spirit world of intimidating creatures. The novel examines whether the person who returns home can ever be the same one that left.

• Why Aviaq Johnston thinks we should see ourselves in stories

Watch: Sleep Dealer

A wall divides Mexico and the US in Alex Rivera's dystopian film Sleep Dealer. Yet migrant labourersknown as "sleep dealers" work remotely by connecting to a network of cables in Tijuana that control robots on the other side of the border. This tale of contemporary politics in a cyberpunk setting won the 2008 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at theSundance Film Festival.

Listen: We Are the Halluci Nation by A Tribe Called Red

Shortlisted for the 2017 Polaris Music Prize, the third studio album by A Tribe Called Red is a sonic collection of Indigenous stories. The remixed powwow music on We Are the Halluci Nation features the story of Chanie Wenjack, an Anishinaabe boy who died while escaping a residential school in 1966. The album makes a call for change when it comes to the treatment of Indigenous communities.

• A Tribe Called Red on pushing Indigenous music and issues to the forefront