Allusions

• Ganges River


  An Asian river that rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus
• Residential schools


  Government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture
• Minerva


  The Roman goddess of wisdom, medicine, commerce, handicrafts, poetry, the arts in general, and later, war
• Indigenous


  Belonging to the country in which they are found, rather than coming there or being brought there from another country
• Apocalypse


  The total destruction and end of the world
• Métis


  People of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry, and one of the three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada