Power Potawatomi I am only the Chickadee

I am only the Chickadee

the glacier returns to its source

19 in color

wise voices remind us where hope lies

and the inspiring stories of successful language warriors

Power Potawatomi I am only the ChickadeeThe novel opens on the night of an ominous storm. Omishto witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther an animal considered to be a sacred ancestor of the Taiga people. That single act will have profound consequences for Omishto. Suddenly, she is torn between her loyalties to her Westernized mother, who wants her to reject the ways of the tribe, and to Ama and her traditional people, for whom the killing of the panther takes on grave importance. But