![]() ![]() Frenchie climbs a tree and spots two men, one wearing camouflage and another in a red hat. ![]() On their way, the group finds evidence that other people are camping nearby. As a steady snow falls, Miig directs the group eastward to avoid the new school. However, it isn’t necessary for the whole group to know that now. He tells French that what he saw up in the trees was a new school the Recruiters are building nearby. ![]() Miig finishes his story there and tells French the moral: that sometimes one must trust that people are making decisions for the good of the community based on things they know but that you don’t know. But Isaac refuses to believe the rumors and has faith that he will be able to reason with the agents. Miig tries to convince Isaac to escape through the yard. But it is too late: government vans have already pulled up outside and men are knocking at the door. One night, the younger woman sneaks out of her room to show Miig her blinking ankle monitor. Miig is suspicious, but Isaac invites them in. The man says he’s sprained his ankle and the woman says she is pregnant. One night, they heard noise in the bush and found three apparently Native people there: a man, a woman and another younger woman. Isaac was half-Cree and a respected poet. In the early days, when the Recruiters were just beginning to hunt Indigenous people, Miig and his husband, Isaac, went to live in their semi-remote, off the grid cottage. Miig shares his coming-to story with French. ![]()
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