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

For Rare Languages, Social Media Provide New Hope

July 26, 2014ArticleAanishnaabemowin, American Indian, language, Ojibwe

In this edition of the popular NPR series, “All Tech Considered”, reporter Lydia, Emanouilidou explores the role that social media can (and does play) in language revitalization.

Saving vanishing ‘tongues’

May 23, 2014Articlelanguage, Ojibwe, revitalization

Many languages disappear every year. In a race against time, language researchers are using digital technology to preserve those tongues from extinction. Student Science explores how languages can be preserved and renewed before the last speakers walk on.

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 .