Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number animals The Flight of the Hummingbird

The Flight of the Hummingbird shows how easy it is to start and how great the effect could be if everyone just did what they could

” and “cold rain / field mice rattle the dishes / buson’s koto

of the warm heart of family

a deliberate rhythm

they flip the notion of "tradition" and create alternative visions of what being Indigenous means today

Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number animals The Flight of the HummingbirdDual language edition in Nishnaabemwin (Ojibwe) Nbisiing dialect and English. When eight year old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school, she is confused, frightened and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns in charge at the school, who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she