The Baby Blues Plays Using the ideas surrounding residential

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

Stories include creation

the signing of Treaty 3

The Baby Blues Plays Using the ideas surrounding residentialThe 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.