Nenookaasi Mawadishiwe: Hummingbirds Visits

Nenookaasi Mawadishiwe: Hummingbirds VisitsIn this vibrant, beautiful children's book, readers will learn about hummingbirds and their yearly migratory patterns while also being exposed to Ojibwemowin, a beautiful language spoken by the indigenous tribes in parts of Michigan, Ontario, northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and Alberta. From summer to spring, readers will follow a single male hummingbird as he transforms from a nestling to a fully grown male ready to welcome his own nestlings to the

and stereotypes shattered

/ We come from single cells / evolving over billions of years

and dreams

―from “WHEREAS Statements”

plants used in natural dyes

enlivened by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas fabulous Haida-manga illustrations

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white

but rather a continuously flourishing community of modern Indigenous people who march defiantly into the future

Vizenor concentrates on these two artistic traditions

displayed for curious residents like zoo animals

They said she couldn't win because of how she looked

With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose