cultural work of `The Rez Sisters`

The Rez Sisters reveals this cultural value . The Rez Sisters ' effuses with a strong sense of mythical past and illustrates the fluidity between mystical and physical . Through the women 's encounters with Nanabush daily lives , the lack of division between land and the body , and the journey is motion , and the events of the [play] - the happenings that mark significant aspects of the (the characters ) movements - show that the journey may be simultaneously physical and mythical , that the two realms are inseparable , and that this perception is an integral aspect of the way [the women] view their world (critical perspective

6 . The Rez Sisters ' explores the single [cultural value] that most defines Indian literatures .[a] sense of community and commitment to it (Eigenbrod 20 . Highway presents the struggles of individual members of the reservation to reconnect to communal values that have eroded over time . In the opening act , Pilejia voices her disenchantment with life on the reserve . Everyone here 's crazy . No jobs . Nothing to do but drink and screw each other 's wives and husbands and forget about our Nanabush (Highway 6 . Through this , Highway shows the reservation at its most divided , when the community is reduced to a population of individuals , disconnected from the spiritual core of Native values , a vision of wholeness , where all things are interconnected and interrelated (Dumont , 1993 . Although they form a group and live on the land , the display signs that they have lost touch with the essence of community . Absorbed in the furthering of individual as opposed to communal agendas , the women often engage in chaotic episodes where everyone is talking in no body is listening . This is against all that community stands for . Community manifests itself in yet another way in The Rez Sisters . The play is constructed by the use...