UW-Milwaukee Institute Receives STEM Focused Grant for American Indian Education

November 5, 2018Article, Education, News

**UPDATE: Wisconsin Public Radio “The Morning Show” UW-Milwaukee Program Addresses American Indian Teacher Shortage interview with Director Margaret Noodin.

For a second year in a row, the Electa Quinney Institute has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This $1.1 million, five year, grant is a partnership with EQI, Milwaukee Public Schools, and the Indian Community School to promote and support Native American educators in STEM fields. The grant will support a total of 10 students to obtain their initial license in either teaching or administrative leadership.

The Electa Quinney Teacher Training and Administrative Leadership Program (TTAL) is a five-year partnership between the Indian Community School (ICS) and Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) to recruit and prepare undergraduate, post-baccalaureate or graduate level students to build capacity in public, private and charter schools in Milwaukee and tribal schools in the Great Lakes region. This project will address teacher and administrator shortages in the American Indian community and will work with school districts throughout the state.

More information and a link to the application can be found here.

Broadside Press publishes Noodin poem

November 5, 2018Article, NewsAanishnaabemowin, collaboration, language, Native American, Ojibwe, poetry, revitalization

Margaret Noodin, director of the EQI, holding her Broadside vectorized poem

“Niizhosagoons gemaa Nisosagoons Daso-biboonagad” / “Two or Three Thousand Years”

This publication by Broadside Press, was a collaboration with the words by Margaret Noodin and the art by Meghan Keane.

Broadside Press, founded in 2005, has the mission of putting literature and art on the streets. They publish monthly visual-literary collaborations as free posters for anyone to download and print. Special features punctuate the monthly publications.

You can view the poem and download it for sharing. Because we can all use a little more art in our lives.

Minowakiing Chibizhiwag Dewe’igan

May 1, 2018

(The Milwaukee Panthers Drum)

The current care taker of the drum is UWM student, Nathon Breu. For his Honor’s Senior Thesis, he wrote about the history of the Anishinaabek Big Drum. How this one specific, Gete Dewe’igan, and how this dewe’igan came to be part of the community, and how she functions to promote well-being in this community. You can read this essay via a PDF here: Minowakiing Chibizhiwag Dewe’igan

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 places, and Native writing in the twenty-first century. Listen to or download the podcast.

To Get You Started

June 1, 2017Education, FYIEducation, FYI, Information you need, PDF document

Do you have questions about the Native peoples of North America but do not know where to start? Here is a short document created to get you started. It has some books, websites, and people to contact at UW-Milwaukee. Still have questions? Feel free to contact us.