JOE PITAWANAKWAT’S PARTNERS have grown accustomed to his texting them strange questions at all hours. Which woodpecker digs all day? Is there a bird with something sticky on its beak? What does a shore-bird have to do with fire?
Fascinated by birds all his life, Pitawanakwat has been on a particular mission for more than a decade: to collect as many bird names as he can in Anishinaabemowin, the traditional and endangered language of his Anishinaabek community in
