A reading of both the Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin and English versions of a short poem by Margaret Noodin about how the future of the Anishinaabe language and the future of our people is connected. || ["Maamwimaajaan ina Anishinaabemowyaan miinawaa neseyaan?" "Do they leave together, our language and the last breath?"] || I am by no means a fluent speaker yet, but I have been studying Anishinaabemowin for many years now. The language was taken a few generations back in my family due to pressures of assimilation and residential schools and I see it as my responsibility as member of an Anishinaabe nation to use my abilities and resources to learn and help bring the language forward for those yet to come.