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

Visiting Artist: Phyllis Fast

December 3, 2014Interview

Phyllis Fast, PhD visited UWM as part of the Visualizing Sovereignty art show at the UWM Union Art Gallery. She, along with UWM native faculty members, Bernard Perley, PhD and Kimberly Blassier, PhD, did a presentation on “Did any of… Read More

Preserving the Anishinaabe Language at UWM

Preserving the Anishinaabe Language at UWM. (UWM Today)

Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Waukesha. These are words we use every day and are so much a part of our identity in southeastern Wisconsin. But where do these words come from?

On this edition of UWM Today, learn about the Anishinaabe Language, used by Native Americans from the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa tribes. Guest Meg Noodin, assistant professor of English and interim director of the Electa Quinney Institute at UWM, teaches Native American languages to students at UWM. She is passionate about preserving a major part of the culture of native Americans in our region .