The Rez Sisters The play The Rez Sisters is written by one of Canada’s most celebrated playwrights, Tomson Highway. Highway was born in 1951 in northwestern Manitoba. He went on to study at the University of Manitoba and graduated from the University of Western Ontario, with honors in Music and English. Native Literature is inspired by “contemporary social problems facing native Canadians today; alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, wife battering, family violence, the racism of …showed first 75 words of 1305 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1305 total…and feel comfort in our lives. We as human beings need to open our eyes and see we can all belong together and live in one society without dropping our culture but before this can happen we need to end racism and stereotyping. These are the two main factors that push people, more commonly native people, into the loss of belonging the loss of their culture and the loss of the core of their identity.