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Author: James Cullingham
Publication Date: January 15, 2026 - 11:41
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Anishinaabe linguist Shirley Williams helped spark a resurgence of her mother tongue
January 15, 2026
Dr. Shirley Williams, who died in Little Current on Manitoulin Island on Dec. 19 at 87 years of age, was a linguist, language professor, activist, elder and knowledge keeper. For several decades she instructed and revitalized the Anishinaabemowin language at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., a place known in her mother tongue as Nogojiwanong, meaning “place at the end of the rapids.”
She was a resilient, barrier-breaking professor who, in addition to teaching the language, authored dictionaries and lexicons, created curricula and wrote other works vital to the cultural resurgence and survival of her language.
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