We have all experienced the many challenges life has to offer us, sometimes we over come them by climbing over the mountain and other times we take the long way around. Neither way is the path smooth and straight each has its bumps and curves. As humans we try to fix these bumps and curves with objects which we deam to be important and significant. Money is commonly defined as the key to happiness and as the most important part of the "American Dream". Bingo offered these women happiness, a new life where all their wants, needs and dreams could come true. .
In the play Pelajia states "everyone here's crazy. No jobs. Nothing to do but drink and screw each other's wives and husbands and forget about our Nanabush .My old man has to go hundred miles to Espanola just to get a job. My boys gone to Toronto. Only place educated Indian boys find decent jobs these days. And here I sit all broken hearted. Paid a dime and only farted." Spirituality is very important to all native women, it brings them luck if everything is done correctly and if not they believe they will be punished. Bingo is a place where mostly women went to have a night out away from the troubles and worries in their lives and to have a chance to win enough money to change their lives for the better and give them hope.
The bingo was held in the city of Toronto which ironically is where two of the seven wanted or needed to go. Each woman was looking for a way out of their depressing lives and memories for greener pasture but were all too scared to take the road alone. This is shown by Philomena Moosetail continually asking and begging Annie Cook to come with her to bingo and Pelajia Patchnose continually stating she wanted something else to be in Toronto. These seven women showed a lot of unity, not only to raise the money for the trip together but also to listen and care for each other. Each one of them opened up and shared their most painful secret during their trip.
Tomson Highway has a very successful record of plays such as "The Rez Sisters", "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing", "Rose" and "The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito" about the Native people, especially "The Rez Sisters". ... Let take a review of "The Rez Sister" to accomplish what Tomson try to tell us. ... Pelajia Patchnose wants to pave all the roads on the Rez so Nanabush will come back and dance. ...
The Role of A Trickster And It's Use In The Rez Sisters The trickster figure in native mythology has many different roles and characteristics, which Tomson Highway demonstrates in his play The Rez Sisters. ... The other women "ease (her) back into the van" and go on with their journey (Rez, 94). ... And the Bingo Master changes, with sudden bird-like movements, into the nighthawk, Nanabush in dark feathers" (Rez, 103) and he "escorts Marie-Adele into the spirit world" (Rez, 104). Nanabush is a "clownish sort of a character" who adds comedy and confusion with his "tricks" (Rez, XII). ...
Benito Juárez was born to an indigenous family in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, in 1806. In the city of Oaxaca, he lived with his sister who was a servant at the house of Don Antonio Maza. ... When Santa Anna returned to power, many liberals, including Juárez, were expelled from Mexico. ... In October 1867, Benito Juárez was reelected President of the Republic. ... Benito Juárez was reelected as President for the last time in 1871. ...
Mary Sprit is the sister of Arnold, the main character in "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," written by Sherman Alexie. ... Leaving her life in the "rez" didn't mean leaving her family. ... If she hadn't left the "rez" and took a chance, a risk, believing in her self, Mary would have stayed trapped in the basement of her families house with no spirit left, her soul would have been dead. ...
After tie, they were a big hit, so when Guadalajara's leader was arrested in 1989, the group's remaining members divided up its trafficking routes into, which created the Sinaloa, Juárez, and Tijuana cartels. ... But our people - my white brothers and sisters - will stay committed to a non-violent resolution....
Carmen Pérez also thinks that Heathcliff's arrival is a mechanism against authority His deep attachment to Cathy works to give her autonomy and power to do as she wishes, that is, to reject paternal authority; and the two children grow in an atmosphere of wild freedom ( 166). ...
