“Indigenous language is vitally important for Indigenous people; that should be motivation enough for us as well as the rest of the world to actively support it.” —Anton Treuer

“We all do better when we all do better.” Paul Wellstone

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“Growth is more than a springtime flood, it’s a dance. Dance in all your seasons, my boy, and play the music loud.”  —Where Wolves Don’t Die by Anton Treuer

“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer

“We all do better when we all do better.” Paul Wellstone

Language revitalization is innovative and produces results—in English and math as well as the target Indigenous language—that everyone can believe in. —Anton Treuer

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“We all do better when we all do better.” Paul Wellstone

“We can’t chase everyone away from the table and then complain that we’re eating alone.” —Anton Treuer

“Ojibwe language revitalization depends on preparing the next generation of fluent, culturally grounded educators.”—Anton Treuer

“Growth is more than a springtime flood, it’s a dance. Dance in all your seasons, my boy, and play the music loud.”  —Where Wolves Don’t Die by Anton Treuer

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“Fairness is not given. It is made.” —Anton Treuer

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One Ojibwe name for the month of July is Aabita-niibino-giizis.

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“We all do better when we all do better.” —Paul Wellstone

We can be exactly who we are—exactly who the creator wanted us to be—and thrive. —Anton Treuer, The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World

“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer

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“Reconciliation is not a spectator sport.”—Late Honorable Murray Sinclair

“We all do better when we all do better.” Paul Wellstone

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We become like the people we spend time with. —Anton Treuer

“We all do better when we all do better.” Paul Wellstone

You are a complete, fully realized human being. You are a soul who has a body. You are the one your ancestors were praying for and waiting for through the generations. You have been given a unique set of gifts, and you yourself are a gift to the world. —Anton Treuer, The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World