In search of april raintree

In Search of April Raintree The book of Beatrice Culleton Mosioner titled In Search of April Raintree, is about the trials and sufferings of two sisters growing up in the foster home. Beatrice writes about the two young Métis sisters and the struggles about their lives. She tells us about the social system, stereotypes, drug, alcohol abuse and the girl’s on-going battle to fit in with society to become “normal”. As they grew up through many hardships trying to uncover their unique identity in society, the Métis sisters discovered the world in two entirely different perspectives. Though they planned to stay together as they grew up, the changing personalities in addition to the distinct beliefs about their Métis heritage separated them not only from society but from each other as well. April Raintree is a twenty four year old Métis woman, her father Henry Raintree, was a mixed blood, a little of that, a little of this, and a whole lot of Indian. April tells a story about her sister Cheryl, she had inherited looks: black hair, dark brown eyes which turned black when angry, and brown skin. There were no doubt they were both of Indian ancestry. April and Cheryl’s mother, Alice, on the other hand, was part Irish and Ojibway. They lived in Norway House, a small northern Manitoba town, before their father contracted tuberculosis. When they moved to Winnipeg, they used to hear their father talk about TB (tuberculosis) and how it had caused him to lose everything he had worked for. Henry and Alice always took this medicine and April always thought it was because of TB. As small children, April and Cheryl are taken away from their alcoholic parents and put into different foster families, where they have different experiences.