How this play furthered my understanding about the Native Peoples of Canada!

This play really did open my eyes and made me more curious to more of these Native stories. What “Dead White Writer on the Floor” really taught be about Native Peoples of Canada is how Canadians were taught to hold prejudices against Indigenous people and how Canadians were influenced to treat Natives unfairly. I believe that the Natives in Canada sometimes try to change their lives in order to fit in with other Canadians. They begin to lose their culture and identity. In the play, when the characters realize that changing doesn’t do much for you when it comes to associating a Native in the eyes of a Canadian, Bill says that “Nothing has changed, we exchanged one pair of moccasins for another. Things didn’t get better”. In the end of the play the characters realized that this whole time they have been blaming the White writer, or the “Canadian” in this case, of all their problems, when no one is to blame for their change, but themselves. They are the ones who put matters into their own hands and decided to try and loose all their Native culture and change who they are because they wanted to feel like they fit in. Despite the way Native Americans are portrayed in books and their stereotypes in current Canadian society, people often forget that Native Peoples have hopes and aspirations beyond what is expected from them.