How are the characters reacting to the issue of injustice?

 

Aunt Trudy pretty much broke down after being released from her prison like hold in a Canadian Residential school. She had been brutally abused, physically and mentally. She resorted to heavy drinking to forget all the bad things but it still hurts her to talk about it.

Uncle Mick was shot on one of the reserves. The woman he was having tea with had called the police on some Goons (Guardians of the Oglala Nation). They had been doing things she disagreed with and one day over enjoying a simple cup of tea they showed up and decided to shoot their guns off around them to scare her into silence.

Lisa’s Aunt Lisa also went to a residential school but not much was said on what her experiences were. It kind of leaves you to speculate on what happened.

Uncle Mick’s wife/girlfriend Cookie(Cathy) also went to a residential school. She fought against the system and dropped out of at least three. She yelled back at the nuns and told them she’d never be one of those perfect cookies like the high and fancy, well-mannered white girls. She said she was fry bread and she said she was proud of it.

“You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I’m fry bread, you bitch, and I’m proud of it.” (Robinson, 145, 6-7)