Weweni: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English Mi'kmaq Indigenous-language authors

Indigenous-language authors

or those trying to get back to nature through understanding and using natural materials

Josh struggles to reconcile the conflicting voices he hears—from the messages of sin and scorn of the non-Indian Christian churches his parents attend in order to assimilate

the Hampton Institute (Virginia)

then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones

Weweni: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English Mi'kmaq Indigenous-language authorsDepending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word "weweni" expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the word for "relatives" is "nindenwemaaganag": those whose "enewewe," or voices, sound familiar. In Weweni, poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique bilingual collection. Noodins warm and perceptive poems were written first in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double vowel orthography and appear translated on