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“We can’t chase everyone away from the table and then complain that we’re eating alone.” —Anton Treuer
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“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
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“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
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“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
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“We all do better when we all do better.” Paul Wellstone
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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 can’t chase everyone away from the table and then complain that we’re eating alone.” —Anton Treuer
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“Ojibwe language revitalization depends on preparing the next generation of fluent, culturally grounded educators.”—Anton Treuer
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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
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Aabita-Niibino-giizis: The Ojibwe Word for July and What It Reveals About the Anishinaabe Calendar
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One Ojibwe name for the month of July is Aabita-niibino-giizis.
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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
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“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
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“We all do better when we all do better.” Paul Wellstone
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