Tomson Highway is a playwright of Dry Lips Shoulda Move to Kaspukasing. The play is based on Highway's real life, as he was born as a full-blooded Cree, lived in an indigenous community located in Wasaychigan Hill, and registered as a member of the Barren Lands First Nation ("Biography" ). Native people have their own culture and beliefs; a unique language and mythology. Most of her plays use the Cree and Ojib language and show the issue of women's power in the community. As times change, the Canadian government attempts to implement a new system to ensure that indigenous people can cope and adapt to an ever-changing world. The government attempted to assimilate Christianity and Western culture by forcing children to attend residential schools. They are not allowed to speak their own language, Cree, and to stay with their parents in order to spend less time leading a normal family life. As one of the means of preserving indigenous cultures and beliefs, Highway uses the play as a way to express his difficulties with the social challenges of the government. Tomson Highway explains the uniqueness of the Cree language, the value of women in the Indigenous community, and how the government's strategy to modernize Indigenous people is leading to the destruction of Indigenous cultures. Highway uses the Cree and Ojib languages ​​in Dry Lips Shoulda Move to Kaspukasing because they are very similar and the fictional Wasaychigan Hill Reserve has a mix of Cree and Ojibway residents (Highway 11). In Susanne Methot's article, Highway mentions that the Cree language differs from English in three ways: "humor, the workings of the spirit world, the Cree language has no gender" (para 12). Language and culture are two things related to each other...... middle of paper ... people really give it scars and impacts. Dry Lips Shoulda Move to Kapuskasing is the second play written by Tomson Highway which tells us about the native people who live in Wasaychigan Hill after The Rev Sisters. Highway uses the game as a way to explain to readers that indigenous people have their own culture that needs to be preserved and the impact that occurred after colonization by Western culture. According to the CBC website, the Canadian government assumes that indigenous culture could not cope with rapid modernization, leading it to take steps to help them, but everything goes wrong when the government prevents them to have a normal family life. Tomson Highway receives two awards; Dora Mavor Moore Prize and Floyd S. Chalmers Prize for the play Dry Lips Shoulda Move to Kapuskasing because it manages to tell the story of the lives of indigenous people.