what did sal mother think of herself?

Descended from Native Americans, Sal's mother hates the yet Native American and considers herself an American Indian. She is a loving and kind person who feels as though she can never be good enough because her niceness is always outdone by her husband's. she seems to be searching for her identity and feels trapped in not knowing who she really is yet. She deeply loves her husband and daughter but seems to feel that in being wife and mother to them she has lost her sense of what she is to herself. She goes by the name Sugar but longs for people to use her full name Chanhassen. She loves nature and feels a connection to Mother Earth which she has definitely passed down to her daughter.