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Frauds / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by cellophane on February 20, 2024, 05:23:30 am »Mary Sisiip Geniusz also went earlier by the spelling Mary Seeseep Geniusz:
https://www.neiupeacefire.org/copy-of-the-children
The only other reference that spelling turned out was a visit to Greenland in 2017, part of an "Ice Wisdom" gathering.
Wendy's book, Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings, says this:
https://books.google.com/books?id=__ChEAAAQBAJ&lpg=PR12&pg=PR11
Wendy Geniusz then talks about the biography of her mother (Mary Geniusz), but I can't quite tell when she speaks of her mother and when she speaks of herself in the third person.
https://www.neiupeacefire.org/copy-of-the-children
The only other reference that spelling turned out was a visit to Greenland in 2017, part of an "Ice Wisdom" gathering.
Wendy's book, Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings, says this:
https://books.google.com/books?id=__ChEAAAQBAJ&lpg=PR12&pg=PR11
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The late Keewaydinoquay, a mashkikiwikwe (medicine woman) and ethnobotanist, was one of my first teachers of anishinaabe-gikendaasowin (anishinaabe knowledge). She identified herself as ajijaak (Crane) Clan. She led Midewiwin ceremonies and trained oshkaabewisag (apprentices) to continue her work as a medicine woman and spiritual leader. Keewaydinoquay was born in 1918 (Tanner, pers. comm.).1 She said that she spent much of her childhood in an anishinaabe village on Cat Head Bay, which is on the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan (Tanner, pers. comm.; M. Geniusz, pers. comm.). At approximately nine years old, she was apprenticed to Nodjimahkwe, a well-respected mashkikiwikwe in her village (Keewaydinoquay 1989a). As a child, she was one of only five children in her village who was not taken away to boarding school, giving her the opportunity to visit with and learn from all the elders in the village, many of whom greatly missed their own grandchildren away at school. She says that by the time she realized the great extent of knowledge that these elders and Nodjimahkwe had taught her, it was too late to thank them. She decided that sharing this knowledge with others would be the next best thing, and so she spent much of her life doing that (Keewaydinoquay 1991a). She founded the Miniss Kitigan Drum, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching anishinaabe culture, in one effort to preserve and teach this knowledge. Keewaydinoquay was also an ethnobotanist and taught courses, beginning in 1981, on philosophy and ethnobotany at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Keewaydinoquay n.d.a). She held several formal academic degrees, including a Bachelor of Science degree from Central Michigan University, which she received in 1944, and a Master of Science in Biology degree from Central Michigan University, which she received in 1977 (Keewaydinoquay n.d.c). She also completed the coursework for a Ph.D. in biology with an emphasis in ethnobotany at the University of Michigan, but she was unable to complete the required exams to begin writing her dissertation (W. Geniusz 2005, 193).
1 This date comes from a letter that Keewaydinoquay's mother wrote as the date of Keewaydinoquay's birth in a letter she wrote to her own father, Keewaydinoquay's grandfather (Tanner, October 14, 2004). A copy of this letter is in the possession of Helen Hornbeck Tanner.
Wendy Geniusz then talks about the biography of her mother (Mary Geniusz), but I can't quite tell when she speaks of her mother and when she speaks of herself in the third person.