Aki-Wayn-zih: A Person As Worthy As the Earth

In: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

Abstract

Aki-wayn-zih is one man's story of growing up in the hunting and gathering society of the Ojibways and surviving the residential school system, woven together with traditional legends in their original language. A story about the land and its relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Turtle Island to the present day.