Weweni: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English Mi'kmaq Native and non-Native

Native and non-Native

a handsome young sacred clown

Mihesuah first examines how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non-Natives

then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones

Weweni: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English Mi'kmaq Native and non-NativeDepending 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