Dr Uchenna Ngwe, an expert on Black British classical musicians, and Anton Treuer, Professor of Ojibwe at the University of Minnesota, were our guides.

“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

“The federal government is required by law to keep government records open to the public…Any move to restrict or provide impediments to the free and ready access of citizens to information about their government or its operations, past, present, and future, is dangerous.” —Anton Treuer

“The United States of America is complex and I do think that our foundational promise, the freedoms and equality statements, are really pretty beautiful. But our foundational realities are something altogether different.” —Anton Treuer

Anton Treuer writes article about Hole in the Day for the Summer 2026 issue of North Magazine

Arrow Broken Poetry Collective invites the public to its June Featured Artist and Open Mic event with Anton Treuer. The free event will be held at the Marine Village Hall in Marine on St. Croix, Minn. on Friday, June 12.

Language learning is a powerful, decolonizing, and healing act. —Anton Treuer, The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds

Language learning is a powerful, decolonizing, and healing act. —Anton Treuer, The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds

Reforming broken systems of oppression will not work. We have to build new systems of liberation. —Anton Treuer, The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds

Language learning is a powerful, decolonizing, and healing act. —Anton Treuer, The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds

“What are our people going to need seven generations from now?” —Anton Treuer

“For some people, fear and loss close their hearts, leaving them guarded and lonely and disconnected. But somehow, they opened me.” —Where Wolves Don’t Die by Anton Treuer

“Language can disrupt the glue for colonial thinking which has been fundamentally dehumanizing to Indigenous people.”

Designed especially for school librarians and educators, the session will offer insight into Cherokee and Ojibwe perspectives while highlighting the growing impact of Native creators in children’s publishing.

“Everything has the ability to teach us something. Everything is sacred.”

-Anton Treuer

“All the big issues we’re facing – race, politics, climate – the only way through them is together.”

Anton Treuer

“Being a Leech Lake Ojibwe person is connected to harvesting fish at Leech Lake.”

“I am in awe, crying and smiling at the same time. Where Wolves Don’t Die is a love letter to our Ancestors. This beautiful story is full of cultural teachings and characters so familiar that I'm pretty sure we're related.” —Angeline Boulley, #1 NYT Best-selling Author of The Firekeeper’s Daughter