This piece is inspired by the wendigo, the cannibalistic ice-hearted monster of Algonquin, Cree and Ojibwe folklore, among others. It is a being that represents starvation. A wendigo can exist on its own, or it can be created out of a human through dreams, crime, intentional or accidental consumption of a part of a human, or magic. The stories give it a wide range of abilities. It controls the weather, takes the guise of animals or people, mimics sounds, acts strategically, and compels animals to do its bidding. Intrinsically, the wendigo has a heart made out of ice, which must be melted in order to kill it. My piece approaches not only this folklore, exploring multiple facets of the monster, but also the wider impact of greed and the metaphorical cannibalism of colonialism and Western influence. The flute and voice, each representing one half of these dichotomies, are in constant destructive opposition, but they are also unavoidably linked.