“The only way through this is together.” —Anton Treuer
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"I saw Albert Swenson at our local precinct caucusing in Norwegian with other Minnesota farmers. It was perfectly American, totally patriotic, and quintessentially Minnesotan. I thought it was cool." —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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“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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“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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“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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“Ezra, some people think growth only happens in the spring. Plants grow in the spring. People grow in the spring of their lives. But 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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“We are more than the sum of our tragedies.” —Elias Treuer
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I think about the positive identity development of Native youth all the time and not just because I am an educator and author. I love my Ojibwe language and culture, but I want to turn Native fiction on its head. We have so many stories about trauma and tragedy with characters who lament the culture that they were always denied. I want to show how vibrant and alive our culture still is. I want gripping stories where none of the Native characters are drug addicts, rapists, abused, or abusing others. I want to demonstrate the magnificence of our elders, the humor of our people, and the power of forgiveness and reconciliation. —Anton Treuer
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Scholar Anton Treuer has written extensively about Ojibwe life. He's now out with his first novel, Where Wolves Don't Die. The book explores masculinity, living with nature, family secrets, and race relations.
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“The Snyder Act was but a step in a long journey toward justice, and commemorating it one hundred years later is just another step on that same path. There is a lot of road behind us, and even more ahead. It now falls upon us to take stock of the 100-year milestone of Indigenous citizenship in America and hold our nation accountable to delivering the freedom and equality that will humanize us all and help heal our troubled nation.” —Anton Treuer
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“There’s no doubt that the people of Red Lake understood that they would keep all of Upper Red Lake and all of Lower Red Lake when at the signed they signed the Nelson Act.” —Anton Treuer
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“Sacred objects are not just things that are associated with the ceremony. They are sacred in and of themselves. They belong in their cultural context, not behind a wall of glass.” —Anton Treuer
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We don’t live in two worlds. We live in one world. We don’t have to code-switch to make it out there. We don’t have to maintain a dual consciousness. People from other cultures don’t have to sacrifice theirs to enter our world, and natives don’t have to sacrifice their cultures to navigate the modern world. 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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“It is not enough to just navigate systems but to work to change those systems to render them more equitable. The more we act in alignment with our spiritual values and principles, and the more that we act not just with performative humility and performative niceness, but with genuine kindness and a genuine desire to serve others, the greater the good we will be able to accomplish.” —Anton Treuer
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