Tomson Highway is a playwright in 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 that are related to each other...... middle of document ......y about the lives of indigenous people to audiences around the world. Works Cited "A History of Indian Residential Schools in Canada." "Language reflects culture." Np, and Web February 26, 2014. Highway, Tomson: native voice. 1990. Web. February 26, 2014. Highway, Tomson. “Tomson Highway: Talks on the Cree Language.” Red Sky Performance, and Web February 26, 2014. Dry Lips should move to Kapuskasing. . Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1989. Print. Methot, Suzanne. “The Universe of Tomson Highway.”. 2014.