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Ogimaans

Ogimaans

Current price: $22.95
Publication Date: December 22nd, 2020
Publisher:
Edition Tintenfass
ISBN:
9783947994588
Pages:
96

Description

Le Petit Prince is a story beloved by readers across the globe. It is an aadizookaan, an epic teaching tale, that speaks to our souls about the secrets and lessons of being alive. As the story moves from one language to another, the core meaning remains the same, but each translation offers a perspective on being that contributes to our shared understanding. This is the magic of the little prince—by listening to him, we learn to listen better to ourselves and all the beings who have secrets to share. Anishinaabemowin is the language of the Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe people centered in the Great Lakes region of North America. It is currently used in more than two hundred Anishinaabe communities in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, North Dakota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Like many Indigenous languages, its vitality is precarious; what is written today will be the bridge future Anishinaabe children have to the past.

About the Author

Margaret Noodin received an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in English and linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where she teaches Anishinaabemowin and also serves as the associate dean of the humanities. She is also cocreator of www.ojibwe.net and has published two bilingual collections of poetry in Anishinaabemowin and English.

Angela Mesic is Associate Lecturer of the first year Anishinaabemowin courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in the field of psychology and is currently working on a Masters of Community Psychology. Angela has a strong interest in research focused on psychology of learning and curriculum development. At the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education she is A Project Manager for several projects in language revitalization with regional partners including the Indian Community School, several tribal nations and universities throughout the United States.

Michael Zimmerman Jr. is an enrolled member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana. He has formerly worked as their Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Tribal Historian, and lead Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act consultant. He is currently a consultant on Potawatomi language for his band and the Forest County Potawatomi as well as working full time as the Ojibwe Language and Culture Instructor at the Indian Community School of Milwaukee where he teaches K4 through 8th grades.

Susan Wade is a dissertator in history at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work focuses on maple sugar production by Indigenous women in the Great Lakes region during the fur trade era. Besides being a translator and food historian, she has taught and practiced historic cooking at living history sites in Canada and the United States.