What the Chickadee Knows rez traditional understandings of health often

traditional understandings of health often intersected with individual

historians Emma Helen Blair

the debunking of origin stories

the narrator details how her mother repaired a favorite beaded necklace

What the Chickadee Knows rez traditional understandings of health oftenMargaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, What the Chickadee Knows (Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan), "Whether we hear giji giji gaane shii shii or chick a dee dee dee 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