What the Chickadee Knows rez named for the "manoomin" or

named for the "manoomin" or wild rice that also gives the Menominee tribe its name

traditional understandings of health often intersected with individual

the debunking of origin stories

Margaret gradually relearns her language and her family's way of living

What the Chickadee Knows rez named for the "manoomin" orMargaret 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