{"product_id":"what-the-chickadee-knows-9780814347508","title":"What the Chickadee Knows","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eModern poems conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eWhat the Chickadee Knows \u003c\/i\u003e(Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan), \"Whether we hear \u003ci\u003egiji-giji-gaane-shii-shii\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003echick-a-dee-dee-dee\u003c\/i\u003e depends on how we have been taught to listen. Our world is shaped by the sounds around us and the filter we use to turn thoughts into words. The lines and images here were conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English. They are an attempt to hear and describe the world according to an Anishinaabe paradigm.\" The book is concerned with nature, history, tradition, and relationships, and these poems illuminate the vital place of the author's tribe both in the past and within the contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat the Chickadee Knows\u003c\/i\u003e is a gesture toward a future that includes Anishinaabemowin and other indigenous languages seeing growth and revitalization. This bilingual collection includes Anishinaabemowin and English, with the poems mirroring one another on facing pages. In the first part, \"What We Notice\" (E-Maaminonendamang), Noodin introduces a series of seasonal poems that invoke Anishinaabe science and philosophy. The second part, \"History\" (Gaa Ezhiwebag), offers nuanced contemporary views of Anishinaabe history. The poems build in urgency, from observations of the natural world and human connection to poems centered in powerful grief and remembrance for events spanning from the Sandy Lake Tragedy of 1850, which resulted in the deaths of more than four hundred Ojibwe people, to the Standing Rock water crisis of 2016, which resulted in the prosecution of Native protesters and, ultimately, the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline on sacred land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe intent of \u003ci\u003eWhat the Chickadee Knows \u003c\/i\u003eis to create a record of the contemporary Anishinaabe worldview as it is situated between the traditions of the past and as it contributes to the innovation needed for survival into the future. Readers of poetry with an interest in world languages and indigenous voices will need this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Noodin is professor of English and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also serves as the associate dean of the Humanities and director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWeweni \u003c\/i\u003e(Wayne State University Press, 2015), a collection of bilingual poems in Anishinaabemowin and English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615458070802,"sku":"9780814347508","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5fc470df-d5fd-44f9-9165-bb1f11a23822.jpg?v=1732489242","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-the-chickadee-knows-9780814347508","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}