Nenookaasi Mawadishiwe: Hummingbirds Visits

Erin Illinois onjibaa. Illinois miinawaa Michigan daa noongom. Ogikinawaabi, onanda-gikendaan miinawaa omazinibiige. Onanda-gikendaan skiing gaye nanda-gikenimaad Anishinaaben. Ogii-nanda-gikendaanan dibaajimowinan Giiwedin-Ningaabii'an Gabe-gikendaasowigamigong mii noongom nanda-gikendang Michigan Gabe-gikendaasowigamigong. Omaajii-anishinaabemo miinawaa o'o mazina'igan Nenookaasi Mawadishiwe wii-wiidookawaad ji-anishinaabemowaad. Owaabanda'aan ezhi-minwendang akiing mazina'iganing. Iniw nenookaasiwan Erin gii-mazinibii'aad mawidashiwenid endaad. Erin miinawaa odinawemaaganim nenookaasiwan waabamaad endaaso niibing apii dagoshinowaad.Originally from Illinois, Erin lives now in Illinois and Michigan. She is a student, scholar, and artist whose work focuses on environmental and Indigenous Studies. She holds a BA in English literature from Northwestern University, and is currently a PhD student in the American Culture program at the University of Michigan. She is beginning to learn Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), and wrote this book Hummingbird Visits as a way to help herself and other language-learners practice. This book and all of Erin's work is a reflection of her love for the environment and our more-than-human kin. The hummingbird in this book is one who visits Erin's backyard. She and her family love watching this hummingbird and others grow and return each year.

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.