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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 and Associate Dean of the Humanities. She also directs a tribal Head Start program in Minnesota.
Noodin earned an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in English and linguistics from the University of Minnesota. Her doctoral dissertation is titled Native American Literature in tribal context: Anishinaabe Aadisokaanag Noongom (2001).
Noodin is the co-founder and content manager of the ojibwe.net website. She led a weekly Ojibwe language group at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she served as Director of Comprehensive Studies.
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.
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. Doug Kiel, a University of Wisconsin professor and member of the Oneida Nation, spoke out against her inclusion in the Field Museum's exhibition.
She has also published a literary translation into the Ojibwe language of a famous poem in Connaught Irish by Máirtín Ó Díreáin (1910-1988). Margaret Noodin on “Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa” Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa/Niwii-aabiziwinge by Máirtín Ó Direáin, Translated from the Irish into Ojibwe & English by Margaret Noodin Niwii-aabiziwinge (I will find Solace), from Ojibwe.net
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