The Rez Sisters

            
             We have all experienced the many challenges life has to offer us, sometimes we over come them by climbing over the mountain and other times we take the long way around. Neither way is the path smooth and straight each has its bumps and curves. As humans we try to fix these bumps and curves with objects which we deam to be important and significant. Money is commonly defined as the key to happiness and as the most important part of the "American Dream". Bingo offered these women happiness, a new life where all their wants, needs and dreams could come true. .
             In the play Pelajia states "everyone here's crazy. No jobs. Nothing to do but drink and screw each other's wives and husbands and forget about our Nanabush .My old man has to go hundred miles to Espanola just to get a job. My boys gone to Toronto. Only place educated Indian boys find decent jobs these days. And here I sit all broken hearted. Paid a dime and only farted." Spirituality is very important to all native women, it brings them luck if everything is done correctly and if not they believe they will be punished. Bingo is a place where mostly women went to have a night out away from the troubles and worries in their lives and to have a chance to win enough money to change their lives for the better and give them hope.
             The bingo was held in the city of Toronto which ironically is where two of the seven wanted or needed to go. Each woman was looking for a way out of their depressing lives and memories for greener pasture but were all too scared to take the road alone. This is shown by Philomena Moosetail continually asking and begging Annie Cook to come with her to bingo and Pelajia Patchnose continually stating she wanted something else to be in Toronto. These seven women showed a lot of unity, not only to raise the money for the trip together but also to listen and care for each other. Each one of them opened up and shared their most painful secret during their trip.