Margaret NoodinGiiwedinoodin nindizhinikaaz Anishinaabemong. Nindizhinikaaz Margaret Noodin Zhaaganaashimong. Nindenewemaganag gaa-onjibawaad Mooniyaang and, Minnesota gaye Waabizheshi doodem dibendagoziyaanh. Minowaakiing, Wisconsin minawaa Ann Arbor, Michigan daaaanh noongom apii ikwesensiwiyaanh gii daayaanh Chaska, Minnesota. Niizh daanisag nindaawaag, Nitaanimikwesens gaye Nitaamazibiigwekwe. Ningikinaa- mawaag gaye Anishinaabebii'amaan mii ingoding gakina geyabi da Anishinaabemoyang. Northernwind is my name in Anishinaabemowin. My name is Margaret Noodin in English. My relatives are from Grand Portage, Minnesota and I belong to the Pine Marten Clan. I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Ann Arbor, Michigan today but when I was young I lived in Chaska, Minnesota. I have two daughters and teach and write in Anishinaabemowin so that we can all continue using the language. Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she also serves at the Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education and the Associate Dean of the Humanities. She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature and two collections of bilingual poems in Ojibwe and English, Weweni and Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan. Her poems and essays have been anthologized and published in Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Poetry Magazine, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Water Stone Review. With her daughters, Shannon and Fionna, she is a member of Miskwaasining Nagamojig (the Swamp Singers) a women's hand drum group whose lyrics are all in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe). To see and hear current projects visit www.ojibwe.net where she and other students and speakers of Ojibwe have created a space for Anishinaabemowin to be shared by academics and the Native community. Read More Read Less