Chickadee Diné (Navajo) "Whether we hear giji-giji-gaane-shii-shii or

"Whether we hear giji-giji-gaane-shii-shii or chick-a-dee-dee-dee depends on how we have been taught to listen

the first poets of this country

Hayes encounters a unique sense of alienation from both her Native community and the dominant culture

dairy products

and individual colonizations that he lives with/in

Chickadee Diné (Navajo) "Whether we hear giji-giji-gaane-shii-shii orBook four in The Birchbark House series. Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have spent every day side by side and have done everything together since they were bornuntil the day the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated. Desperate to reunite, Chickadee and his family must travel across new territories, forge unlikely friendships, and experience both unexpected moments of unbearable heartache as well as pure happiness. And through it all,