Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki (Queen of the Woods)

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.