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<span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:38px">Academic book about local tribal language published</span></h1><p class="" style="font-size:11px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-size:18px;line-height:24px">Anishinaabe way of reading explored through language and literature</span></p><p class="" style="font-size:11px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
Posted: <span class="" title="2014-03-07T10:00:00-05:00" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Friday, March 7, 2014 10:00 am</span></p><p class="" style="font-size:11px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
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<div class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:none;width:auto"><span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">A new academic book about the native language of American Indian tribes in Northern Michigan is just published this month by Michigan State University Press. </p>
</span><span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">“Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature” combines literary criticism, sociolinguistics, native studies and poetics to introduce an Anishinaabe way of reading. Although nationally specific, the book written by Margaret Noodin speaks to a broad audience by demonstrating an indigenous literary methodology.</p>
</span><div class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">“This book gets to the heart of indigenous writing through an impeccable examination of Anishinaabe language and literature. Noodin’s expansive knowledge and clear explanations invite readers to a new and imaginative understanding of major Anishinaabe authors,” said Jane Hafen, English professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in a written review of the book.</p>
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