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Weweni: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English Ojibwe "What Stephen Graham Jones doesDepending 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. Noodins warm and perceptive poems were written first in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double vowel orthography and appear translated on