And from then on we lived on blueberries for about a week is a stop-motion animation created by Canadian Anishinaabe artist Lisa Myers for the MAP Magazine Spring 2013 edition, with help from animator Rafaela Kino.

The work draws on a story told by Myers’s grandfather about walking approximately 250 km along railway tracks to escape Shingwauk Residential School in Ontario, surviving for days by eating wild blueberries — the phrase he spoke became the title of the piece. The animation is part of Myers’s larger exploration of walking, survival, trauma, food and Indigenous histories. It reflects her practice of using narrative, movement and natural materials to connect personal and collective memory, as well as her own 11-day retracing of her grandfather’s route.

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Based on information provided by the Ellen Mueller, MAP Magazine, and Canadian Art websites.