A review by spacestationtrustfund
Weweni by Margaret Noodin

3.0

What an amazing and innovative way to use language. The poems themselves honestly weren't mindblowing or anything, but the way Margaret Noodin wove together these two vastly different languages was incredible.

from GICHIGAMING ONIIJAANISAG ONJIBAAWAG / CHILDREN OF THE WATERS

Maamawimaajaamigad ina
Anishinaabemowin
miinawaa nesewin?

Enya... gemaa... wanitooyangoba
apii gaawiin noondansiiwang gichigaming
miinawaa waamdamang bizhishigwaag jiibegamigan.

Do they leave together
the language and
the last breath?

Yes... maybe yes... it will be lost
when we no longer hear the open waters
and we see our graves are empty.