Chitwaadewegekwe nindizhinikaaz Anishinaabemong. Ajijaak doodem. Cheboygan, Michigan ndoonjibaa. Honor Beat Woman is my name in Anishinaabemowin. I am crane clan. I am originally from Cheboygan, Michigan. Stacie has a career as a User Experience Researcher and Designer. She is a co-founder and leads the technical development of www.ojibwe.net. She also served on the Board of Directors for American Indian Services in Lincoln Park, Michigan for the last 14 years. Stacie is a member of Miskwaasining Nagamojig (the Swamp Singers), a women's hand drum group whose lyrics are all in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe).
Rachel Mae Butzin is an Indigenous artist whose work is a reflection of her diverse heritage as well as her love of the environment, comic books, and pop culture. Rachel is a graduate of Michigan State University and currently resides in South Dakota with her family, where she is an art teacher at a Native American School. Rachel has been illustrating children's books, working with different clothing companies, has collaborated with several musicians on animations for music videos, as well as logo designs for several companies.
Margaret Noodin received a PhD in Literature and Linguistics, an MFA in Creative Writing and bachelor's degrees in English and Education at the University of Minnesota. She is currently Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she also serves as the Associate Dean of the Humanities and the Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education.She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature, and two bi-lingual books of poetry in Anishinaabemowin and English: Weweni and What the Chickadee Knows. Her poems have been anthologized in New Poets of Native Nations, Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Poetry Magazine, The Michigan Quarterly Review and Yellow Medicine Review. To see and hear current projects visit www.ojibwe.net where she and other students and speakers of Ojibwe have created a space for language to be shared by academics and the native community. Margaret was born in Colorado and grew up in Chaska, Minnesota and has been blessed with many mentors and teachers as she has worked in language and education. She has spent a lifetime learning and teaching the language of her ancestors. Her family names include: O'Donnell, Orr, Hill, Bernard, Bean, Lavallee and Monplasir. She identifies as American, Anishinaabe, Irish and Metis.
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