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In is a novel written by Winnipeg born writer named Beatrice Culleton. Beatrice Culleton was born in 1949, in St. Boniface Manitoba. She attended George Brown College, 1970, and Banff school of Fine Arts, 1983. She was raised in foster homes, as were her broth ....

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.... trying to over come her identity problem. April Raintree is the main character who is a light skinned Metis; in fact, throughout most of the novel she tries to pass herself off as being completely white. Her younger sister, Cheryl Raintree, is much darker than April and does not try the same “racial swap”. Cheryl is very proud of her culture. April Raintree gets embarrassed when her younger sister talks so proudly of being Metis. An example of this is when April is at an academy where she so very much wanted to fit in with the white people. She did not tell anyone she was half Metis, but she did tell everyone that her parents died. She ....