Margaret Noodin Explained

Margaret Noodin
Birth Name:Margaret O'Donnell
Birth Date:[1]
Nationality:American
Occupation:Poet, college professor
Employer:University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Margaret A. Noodin is an American poet and Anishinaabemowin language teacher. She is a professor of English and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[2] and Associate Dean of the Humanities.[3] She also directs a tribal Head Start program in Minnesota.

Background and education

Noodin grew up in Chaska, Minnesota.[1] She has self-identified as having Ojibwe descent from her paternal great-great-grandfather;[3] however, she could never identify what tribal nation she believed he descended from.[3] She also identifies as being of Irish, French, and English descent.[3]

Noodin earned an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in English and linguistics from the University of Minnesota.[4] Her doctoral dissertation is titled Native American Literature in tribal context: Anishinaabe Aadisokaanag Noongom (2001).[5]

Life and career

Noodin is a professor of English and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Associate Dean of the Humanities. She began teaching at the university in 2013, and earned tenure in 2016. Noodin also served as the director of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Electa Quinney Institute from 2014 until she stepped down in 2022.[6]

Noodin is the co-founder and content manager[7] of the ojibwe.net website.[8] She led a weekly Ojibwe language group at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she served as Director of Comprehensive Studies.[9] [10]

Noodin 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.[11]

Her work was originally included in the Field Museum's Native American exhibition but has since been removed after Native American advisors questioned her Indigenous identity claims and she could not furnish any connections to any Native American tribes.[3] Doug Kiel, a University of Wisconsin professor and member of the Oneida Nation, spoke out against her inclusion in the Field Museum's exhibition.[3]

She has also published a literary translation into the Ojibwe language of a famous poem in Connaught Irish by Máirtín Ó Díreáin (1910-1988).[12] [13] [14]

Works

Dissertation

Articles and essays

Books

In anthology

Poetry online

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Margaret Noodin . March 5, 2024 . . en-US.
  2. Web site: Margaret Noodin . March 5, 2024 . . University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  3. News: Volpenhein . Kelly . Meyerhofer . Sarah . Vaisvilas . Frank . Indigenous or pretender? Questions raised about UW-Milwaukee professor who led Native studies institute . November 2, 2023 . Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . November 1, 2023.
  4. News: Two Poems . Verse Wisconsin . 113–114 . April 2014 . Verse Wisconsin . March 14, 2015.
  5. Book: Noori, Margaret Ann . Native American Literature in tribal context: Anishinaabe Aadisokaanag Noongom . 2001 . University of Minnesota.
  6. Web site: Files . Emily . August 1, 2022 . New director of UWM Electa Quinney Institute talks Indigenous language education, $3 million grant . March 5, 2024 . . en.
  7. Web site: About . Ojibwe.net . April 29, 2023.
  8. News: Lydia . Emmanouilidou . For Rare Languages, Social Media Provide New Hope . July 26, 2014 . All Things Considered . NPR . March 12, 2015.
  9. News: Univ. seeks to preserve native language. USA Today. 2014-05-02. 2008.
  10. News: Wang. Frances Kai-Hwa. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang. Professor Margaret Noori discusses Native Americans of Michigan, the Three Fires Confederacy. The Ann Arbor News. 2014-05-02. 2010-01-05.
  11. News: Mejia . Mercedes . Through poetry Margaret Noodin keeps her Native American language alive . 26 April 2021 . Michigan Radio . NPR . April 23, 2015.
  12. https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/margaret-noodin-on-faoiseamh-a-gheobhadsa/ Margaret Noodin on “Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa”
  13. https://poems.com/poem/faoiseamh-a-gheobhadsa/ Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa/Niwii-aabiziwinge by Máirtín Ó Direáin, Translated from the Irish into Ojibwe & English by Margaret Noodin
  14. https://ojibwe.net/stories/fall/niwii-aabiziwinge-i-will-find-solace/ Niwii-aabiziwinge (I will find Solace)

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