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In Search of April Raintree

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by Beatrice Culleton

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Does anyone have any In Search of April Raintree book club questions?
Sara
1) How did this book make you feel?
2) Was April lucky to be in a white foster family?
3) April chooses to identify as white and fully incorporates whit…more
1) How did this book make you feel?
2) Was April lucky to be in a white foster family?
3) April chooses to identify as white and fully incorporates white supremacist views toward native peoples. Her younger sister, whom she loves dearly, is visibly Indigenous and this creates cognitive dissonance for April. How can she love and hold dear and near her sister while pursuing a white lifestyle and presenting herself as white? How can all the stereotypes about Natives be true when she and her sister were intelligent, hard-working, clean people?
4) Discuss Cheryl and April’s approaches to embracing or not embracing their Metis heritage.
5) What do you think about the social worker who gave them the talk about what their futures will look like as Natives?
6) April overhears her mother in law and another woman discussing “half breed children”, yet April doesn’t have children with Bob. Discuss.
7) Why was there no rape counseling advised or even hinted at for April?
8) What was the best part about the book?
9) The second family April was with was abusive and when she tried to tell the social worker or her teachers at school, they didn't believe her. Why not?
10) Why couldn’t we have been assigned this in college instead of all the dead old white guy authors?
11) With the media and society up in arms regarding the Residential School System, this book talks about 2 young girls who end up in the Foster System and how it affected their lives. How can we ever make this right?
12) Why can't we all accept each other as valuable and worthwhile human beings?
13) Why hasn’t this book been more widely read considering how long it’s been around?
14) In this mobile world full of immigration and intermarriage, is it realistic to expect to continue living with the same ways and traditions of 200 years ago?
15) Was it better for the girls to have stayed in an alcoholic environment or to be put into the foster families they were placed with?
16) Was Cheryl fit to be a parent?
17) How has the foster care system has grown out of the residential school system?
18) How does sexual violence disproportionately affect Indigenous women and girls?
19) How has addiction plagued the community as an attempt to numb the intergenerational and personal traumas of living in a settler state that dehumanizes Indigenous people?
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I really enjoyed reading of this book. Here is the question: I like to know what happened to the little baby who was called Anna? I can relate to this book.
andrea I'm guessing parental negligence. the father claimed it was sick and should've stayed in the hospital longer, but we know he wasn't a very vigilant so…moreI'm guessing parental negligence. the father claimed it was sick and should've stayed in the hospital longer, but we know he wasn't a very vigilant sort, speaking politely.(less)
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