"Three young Indigenous American sisters and their mother board a bus bound for Los Angeles, leaving home as part of a 1950s government mandate to relocate reserve Indigenous peoples to urban centres. This assimilationist policy was one focus of Métis playwright Marie Clements{u2019}s research when she was commissioned to create a new play for the tenth anniversary of the Native Voices series at the Autry National Center, Los Angeles. On arrival in California, the girls watch as their mother is shot and killed during an encounter with the police. The girls are thrown into the unknown-- arbitrarily placed in different foster homes, their secure family unit dismantled. We follow Janey, Miranda, and Jessie as they lead quite disparate adult lives; Janey, as a troubled vagrant; Maria, as a burgeoning actress resisting typecast roles in Hollywooed; Jessie, as an idealist physician. Each is somehow linked with a white man. The narrative of the three sisters exposes not only assimilationist policy but also another historical injustice: the forced sterilization of thousands of Indigenous women in the 1970s, a practice abolished only in 1981. It is rebellion against this government policy that ultimately brings the women together."--Provided by publisher.

"A play"--T.p. verso.