The Baby Blues Plays and kindness but also language

and kindness but also language

Louis-Jacques Dorais

Using the ideas surrounding residential schools and healing from the impact of generations of school survivors and their families

First Nations welfare policy in Canada was used deliberately to oppress and marginalize First Nations peoples and to foster their assimilation into the dominant society

Nabigon begins the text with a brief introduction that explains the use of the hollow tree metaphor that appears in the title and throughout the book

The Baby Blues Plays and kindness but also languageThe Baby Blues by Ojibwe playwright Drew Hayden Taylor is a social satire mixed with a large dose of Indigenous humour about identity, parenthood, powwows, and stereotypes. An aging fancy dancer, a young fancy dancer, an anthropology student with 1 64th Aboriginal heritage, a single parent mom, and her daughter all meet during a powwow weekend. All participants in this drama learn important lessons about themselves, life, and First Nations cultures.