Raised on a Sioux reservation

implicitly treat dominant non-native ideologies and institutions as the basis for defining time itself

Accessibly written and revelatory

and a rallying cry for the preservation of priceless languages and cultures

beautiful thinking about the relationship between political speech and literature’s capacity to write back

What the Chickadee Knows cities Raised on a Sioux reservationMargaret 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