Birdsong Music & Dance making this community’s efforts a

making this community’s efforts a model and inspiration for other Indigenous groups

and mental aspects of participants

and influence of Doug Cranmer who called himself a "whittler" or "doodler" but who embodied "Indigenous modern" well before the term had been coined

and for the non-Iroquoian linguist with interests in comparative work on Indigenous languages and culture

Birdsong Music & Dance making this community’s efforts aJulie Flett, Cree Mtis author, illustrator, and artist, has written and illustrated Birdsong. In this story a young girl, Katherena, moves to the city with her mother and feels lonely and no longer wants to draw, something that she usually enjoys. But soon she meets the neighbour, Agnes, who shares her love of arts and crafts with Katherena. The two become friends but as the seasons change Agnes becomes frail. Julie Fletts textured images of birds,