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A French trapper. Grey Eyes works as a spotter for Elijah Whiskeyjack. Elijah’s mother dies of a “coughing sickness” when Elijah is a small boy, and he goes to live with the nuns at the residential school. Elijah and Xavier are ordered to scout ahead at dawn. Niska comes across the wemistikoshiw trapper in the woods, and he follows her back to her lodge. Everyone “over there” behaved “in ways it is best not to speak of The Indian Character Analysis. The next day, they go out to “no man’s land,” and Elijah and Xavier can see that the Germans are skinny and tired. He put the skin in On the battlefield, Elijah and Xavier fight two wars— “the one facing the enemy” and “the one facing what they do to the enemy.”. Elijah becomes extremely seasick on the ship, and Grey Eyes injects him with morphine. He “runs his tally higher” when he returns from “no man’s land,” “but his word is enough now.”. Elijah has “crossed the line,” Xavier thinks, “crossed it long ago.”. Niska has “no medicine” to help Xavier, but she will “finds something” in her “memories.”. Elijah is in his glory. Niska thinks of her own father and how he would tell her stories when she was “scared” or “hurt.”. Analysis. Like Niska, he does not sleep. Rain falls as Xavier sits by the fire. Xavier wonders if it is “up to [him] to stop [Elijah].”. In the confusion of the fighting, Xavier loses sight of Elijah Niska is constructing a sweat lodge to purify Xavier and bring his body, mind, and Grey Eyes Character Analysis. A soldier in the Canadian Army and part of Elijah and Xavier ’s unit. One night, a local awawatuk (Indigenous hunter) arrives to get Niska’s help when a clan member “goes windigo ” (is possessed by an evil Anishnabe spirit Analysis. Grey Eyes is addicted to morphine, and he first introduces Elijah to the drug on the ship to Europe to fight in the war. “We all want to be warriors again,” the Indian says Elijah wonders if he will see Francis. Elijah doesn’t tell Xavier, but before he ran to join his unit, he took his “skinning knife from its sheath and pulled the man’s hair back,” scalping him with “careful motions.”. Xavier ’s best friend and the antagonist in Three Day Road. “Dead friends” Xavier doesn’t “want to see come to visit” in his sleep. Word reaches them that Thompson has died of his injuries sustained in Corporal Thompson. As they sneak through the “crushed” city, Xavier watches Elijah. When sleep does come, the dead accuse Xavier of “acts [he] did not perform” and “some that [he] did.”. There, Elijah learns to speak English “like one of [the nun’s] bishops,” and becomes friends with Xavier, another Death stares Elijah in the face and he is indifferent. By that night, the Canadian army has advanced ten miles past the German lines. They make love and have a longstanding relationship. An Ojibwe soldier in the Canadian military during World War I. Elijah and Xavier meet the Indian in a pub in the French village of Lens—the only other Anishnabe they meet during the war—and he reminds them that there are many Anishnabe soldiers in France. Sometimes, Xavier wishes that Elijah would be killed in action Once Xavier is calmer, she drags him near the fire.