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On Sunday, June 28, 2020, Margaret Noodin (EQI Director, English, American Indian Studies) and Kim Blaeser (English, American Indian Studies) organized and participated in a Jingle Dress Dance in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Read the full article by… Read More
On two occasions, Tom Luljack, host of UWM Today on WUWM 89.7, spent time with folks from our institute to learn a little more about the work of EQI, its impact on students, and the community as well as more… Read More
“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… Read More
(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
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