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Rita Joe is a young Indigenous woman who leaves her reservation for the city in hopes of a better life. She follows her longtime friend and boyfriend, Jaimie Paul, to the city of Vancouver, to try and find work. Following an altercation with Mr. Homer, a white man who runs social services for Indigenous communities, Rita Joe and Jaimie Paul have just been released from 30-day jail sentences. Jaimie Paul brings Rita Joe back to his apartment in the city. She asks Jaimie Paul about having
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JAIMIE: Come on, Rita Joe . . . you’re slow.
RITA: (happy in her memories, not wishing to forget too soon, hesitates) How much rent . . . for a place where you can keep babies?
JAIMIE: I don’t know . . . maybe eighty dollars a month.
RITA: That’s a lot of money.
[... … …] Again, they laugh in merriment at the idea of such a demonstration with the knife. JAIMIE continues with his story, gesturing with his hands.
JAIMIE: Chop . . . chop . . . chop . . . A potful of shoes in no time! What’s a guy gonna do with a potful of shoes? Cook them? (They continue laughing and lie together again. Then JAIMIE sobers. He rises from the bed and walks around it. Offers his hand to RITA JOE, who also rises.)
JAIMIE: (Drily) Come on. This is a lousy room!
Ryga, George, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Talonbooks, 1967, pp 99-104.
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