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Rita Joe is a young Indigenous woman who leaves her reservation for
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MAGISTRATE: I sentence you to thirty days in prison.
RITA: (angry, defiant) Sure, sure . . . anything else you know?
MAGISTRATE: I sentence you to thirty days in prison, with a recommendation you be examined medically and given all necessary treatment at the prison clinic. There is nothing . . . there is nothing I can do now.
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RITA: You don’t know nothin’!
MAGISTRATE: I know . . . I know . . . It’s a struggle just to stay alive. I know . . . I know . . . I understand. That struggle is mine, as well as yours Rita Joe! The jungle of the executive has as many savage teeth ready to go for the throat as the rundown hotel on the waterfront . . . Your days and hours are numbered, Rita Joe . . . I worry for the child I once saw . . . I have already forgotten the woman!
Ryga, George,
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