“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

“The success of our democracy will not be our ability to take one culture and language and obliterate the others. It will be our ability to not just tolerate, but support all the kinds of diversity that are here.”

“It was a strange feeling, giving away my kill. The elders seemed so happy to receive packages of meat. Many people shook my hand. I felt like I mattered in a way I had never felt before. Something was stirring inside of me and I knew that if I had anything else to give, I would gladly do so.” —Where Wolves Don’t Die by Anton Treuer

“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

“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

“It was a strange feeling, giving away my kill. The elders seemed so happy to receive packages of meat. Many people shook my hand. I felt like I mattered in a way I had never felt before. Something was stirring inside of me and I knew that if I had anything else to give, I would gladly do so.” —Where Wolves Don’t Die by Anton Treuer

“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

“Generations from now, nobody’s going to know my name, but if our language lives, then all our strivings are worth it. I do believe that we are part of something that can ripple through generations and make the world a different and better place.” —Anton Treuer

Niigaan inaabidaa!

“We are part of the web of life, not its masters.” —Chief Seattle

“Oneness, in spite of our differences, is something that happens in our mind. And music and art are things that transcend the divisions and make it easier to see and feel the oneness.” —Anton Treuer

“Native Americans are thousands of years of astonishing human history still in the making.” —Anton Treuer

“The only way through this is together.” —Anton Treuer

"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

“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

Indebweyendam.

Mamaandawiziwin gimiinigoowiz!

“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

“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

“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