In Search Of April Raintree

Beatrice Mosionier is an indigenous Canadian author and she wrote In Search of April Raintree. This book is common in Canadian high schools and is often required reading in Canadian literature courses. This is a historical fiction and a retelling of the author's childhood growing up in Norway House, Manitoba, north of Lake Winnipeg. She did not have a happy childhood in the 1970's and 1980's. April and her younger sister, Cheryl, are taken away from their parents and delivered to two different foster homes. While April favors her mother's looks and could pass for white, Cheryl looks like their father and she looks like a Metis. The two sisters are all they have in the world. The story was very powerful.