Margaret A. Noodin () is an American poet and
Anishinaabemowin
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language teacher. She is Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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Education
Noodin holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics, both received at the
University of Minnesota
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. Her doctoral dissertation is titled ''Native American Literature in tribal context: Anishinaabe Aadisokaanag Noongom'' (2001).
Life and career
Noodin has contributed to the ''ojibwe.net'' website. She led a weekly Ojibwe language group at the
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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, where she served as Director of Comprehensive Studies.
She is the author of ''Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature'' (2014) and ''Weweni: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English'' (2015).
With her daughters, she belongs to a women's hand drum group, Miskwaasining Nagamojig (the Swamp Singers), which sings in Anishinaabemowin.
Works
Dissertation
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Articles and essays
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*Noodin, Margaret with James Price and Tracy Boyer (2020). "Challenges and Opportunities for Nonmarket Valuation of Water Among the Anishinaabe Nations of the Great Lakes Basin" with James Price and Tracy Boyer in The Solutions Journal, vol 11, issue 2, online.
Books
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*''Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan'': What the Chickadee Knows. Made in Michigan Writers Series. Wayne State University Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0814347508
In anthology
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*Erdrich, Heid, ed. (2018). ''New Poets of Native Nations.'' Graywolf Press. .
*LaPensee, Elizabeth, ed. (2019). ''Sovereign Traces. volume 2: Relational Constellation.'' Michigan State University Press. .
Poetry online
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References
Further reading
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External links
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1965 births
Living people
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
American women academics
American women poets
University of Michigan people
University of Minnesota alumni
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty