Depending 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.
Noodin's warm and perceptive poems were written first in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double-vowel orthography and appear translated on facing pages in English.
| Nindenwemaaganag | Those whose enewewe or voices sound familiar |
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Wayne State University Press Weweni, paperback/margaret noodin
