Joseph Boyden's book Three Day Road is an amazing story about two native friends Xavier and Elijah quenching their thirst for adventure by joining the Canadian army. The biggest indigenous issue I could not wrap by head around the entire time while reading this story is the questionable decision of Xavier, Elijah and all natives to even want to join the Canadian army when Canada as a country still was yet to respect them as fellow citizens. Well after doing some research on the subject I have found that many natives were promised certain things by the government if they were to fight in the Canadian army. First of all, according to Joseph Boyden himself, a lot of indigenous people in the 19th century joined the army for a secure paycheck, the
