aboriginal culture was unable to cope with the rapidly modernization which lead them to take action on helping them but everything goes wrong when the government prevent them to have normal family life. Tomson Highway receives two awards; Dora Mavor Moore Award and Floyd S. Chalmers Award for the play Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing because he manages to convey about the life of Native people.
Tomson Highway is a playwright of Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kaspukasing. The play is based on the real life of Highway as he was born as a full-blood Cree, lived in a Native community that takes place in Wasaychigan Hill, and registered as a member of the Barren Lands First Nation (“Biography”). Native people have their own culture and beliefs; unique language and mythology. Most of his plays use Cree and Ojib language and show the issue of the women power in the community. As the period changes, the
lifestyle they are not accustomed to. They do not feel as though they fit in or belong to any particular culture. They are faced with extreme racism and stereotypes from other people in the nonreservational society. 'The Rez Sisters won the Dora Mavor Moore award for the best play in 1986-87 and later went on to earn extravagant praise at the Edinburgh Festival.'; (P. 172 Native Literature in Canada.) The play is full of comedy, trag... ... middle of paper ... ...rs, '?was one of the most toughing