What is the plots of The Loons?

The Loons, by Margaret Laurence, is a short story about a girl named Piquette Tonnerre, who is Native American. Her father introduces Piquette to a girl named Vanessa McLeod. The two are contrasted with one another since Piquette is poor and a minority and Vanessa grew up in a standard middle-class, white family.
The “Loons” title refers to birds that the two girls observe in the story. There are a lot of comparisons made between Piquette and the birds since they both try to change how they live and struggle with it.
The plot itself surrounds increasing discrimination as Piquette’s town of Manawaka, Manitoba gets more and more white settlers crowding out the Native American population, specifically a particular people called the Metis.
Eventually, Piquette marries a white man in order to try to raise her station and gain a normal life in order to escape racism. The story makes a connection between the birds and Piquette’s story since the birds try to adapt to civilization growing into where they live, but eventually they just leave the area, just as Piquette despairs of ever really fitting in with the new white civilization that grows up all around her clinging to her own roots.