UWM Anthropologist Bernard Perley at the State Department

December 17, 2018Interview, News

On November 29, 2018, Bernard Perley, UW-Milwaukee’s linguistic anthropologist, and faculty affiliate of the Electa Quinney Institute, was invited to present at the Department of State in Washington DC to mark Native American Heritage Month. The invitation came from the… Read More

KR podcast with Kimberly Blaeser

April 17, 2018Article, Interview, NewsAanishnaabemowin, American Indian, language, Ojibwe, podcast, poet, poetry

Although her tenor as Wisconsin’s Poet Laureate has ended, she is still busy sharing her work. Anishinaabe poet and former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser speaks with Janet McAdams, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in Poetry at Kenyon College, about picto-poems, watery… Read More

Unknown (stories from an Anishinaabemowin speaker)

May 13, 2017Article, InterviewAanishnaabemowin, AIS, American Indian, American Indian Studies, collaboration, film, language, Native American, Ojibwe, revitalization, student work, undergraduate

As part of the AIS 101: Introduction to American Indian Studies students submit a final project that is an open ended artistic expression, expanding or reflecting upon a topic (or many topics) covered in class. This is one of those… Read More

Have you ever wondered?

October 14, 2016

Have you ever wondered about the origin of the name of our city, Milwaukee? WUWM radio Bubbler Talk seires addressed this question in part by posing the question to our director, Margaret Noodin. The full interview can be heared here: http://wuwm.com/post/mino-akking-mahn-waukke-whats-origin-word-milwaukee

Through poetry Margaret Noodin keeps her Native American language alive

May 6, 2016InterviewAanishnaabemowin, American Indian, language, Native American, Ojibwe, Three Fires

Michigan Radio interviewed Margaret Noodin, Director of the Electa QUinney Institute, and an Assistant Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Margaret Noodin has made it her life’s work to fight for the future of… Read More