This story is written by Beatrice Culleton and it talks about two young Metis girls, that grow up in foster care because their parents are drunks.
They get taken into foster care and while they’re in foster care, they go through a lot of sadness from beginning to end. This is a very eventful novel that makes the reader think quite a bit about what they really went through and how they must’ve felt going through these types of things, both April and Cheryl don’t know why they are getting taken away from their parents at first because they’re too young to understand what’s really going on with them.
The negative occurrences that go on while they are in the foster homes will make you question why. Why didn’t nobody believe them or try to help
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Leaving it all behind her and wanting nothing really to do with aboriginals and their cultures, she tries to change her ways and her appearances because she wants to fit into what she calls “a white society.” She thinks they’re more superior and looks up to them, after they finish school and get jobs, they both go on different paths in life and learn all sorts of new stuff about what it really means to be Metis or white.
At one point in the story April Raintree tries to give up on life, but she thinks about her future and her sister’s future, she decides to keep going and helps her sister every step of the way and dealing with hardships like no other can really endure.
April meets a white guy named bob and marries him, not knowing how wealthy, he really is and moves with him to Toronto. Where she meets his mother Barbra Radcliff. The marriage soon fails because she finds out Bob is cheating on her with another woman and that Barbra doesn’t want aboriginal