Tomson Highway is the author of Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kaspukasing. The show is based on Highway's real life as he was born as a full-blooded Cree, lived in a Native community based in Wasaychigan Hill, and is registered as a member of the Barren Lands First Nation ("Biography"). Natives have their own culture and beliefs; unique language and mythology. Most of her plays use Cree and Ojib language and show the issue of women's power in the community. As the times change, the Canadian government seeks to implement a new system to ensure that Native people can cope and adapt to the world that continues to change. The government tries 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, so they have less time to dedicate to a normal family life. As one of the ways to preserve Native cultures and beliefs, Highway uses the show as a means to express their difficulties in dealing with social challenges from the government. Tomson Highway explains the uniqueness of the Cree language, the value of women in the Native community, and how the government's strategy on Native modernization leads to the destruction of Native cultures. Highway uses the Cree and Ojib language in Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kaspukasing because they are very similar and the fictional Wasaychigan Hill Reservation has a mix of Cree and Ojibway residents (Highway 11). In Susanne Methot's article, Highway states that the Cree language is different from English in three ways; “humor, the workings of the spirit world, the Cree language is genderless” (par. 12). Language and culture are two things that are related to each other... middle of paper... people really leave scars and have an impact on themselves.Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing is the second play written by Tomson Highway which tells us about the natives living on Wasaychigan Hill after The Rev Sisters. Highway uses the game as a means to explain to readers that Native 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 Aboriginal culture is unable to cope with the rapid modernization that led them to act to help them, but everything goes wrong when the government prevents them from having a normal family life. Tomson Highway receives two awards; Dora Mavor Moore Award and Floyd S. Chalmers Award for the play Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing because it manages to convey the life of the natives.