A Critical Study On The Contrast Images Of Métis Women In Beatrice Mosioneier’s In Search Of April Raintree

Abstract

The most important themes of Canadian literature are interrelated with searching for their own identity and their existence.  Métis is a French term that means ‘Mixed –Blood’, the Métis people in Canada and the United States have adopted some of their Indigenous and European cultures while creating their customs and tradition as well as in developing their common language. They are an unmistakable ethnic Indigenous people groups whose history, family, cultural expression is emerged from out of the First Nation, French and English hide trade but they have acquired an abundance of both European and Indigenous literary works. This paper mainly focuses on the sufferings of Métis children and the survival of half Métis women and half-white women; it also considers how the women are suffering for their identity to live in the society.