“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
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“Indians. We Are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
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“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreAnton Treuer, author of The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds →
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“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood,” —Anton Treuer
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I was not just another Indian. No Indian really is.
Because we are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.
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“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
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“The Ojibwe language is beautiful. One example that gets at the way language encodes meaning is our parting, ‘giga-waabamin miinawaa,’ which means ‘I”ll see you again.’ We have no word for goodbye. It’s ‘I’ll see you again’ in this world or the next — an affirmation of the soul-to-soul connection between two people.”
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“I think these things are really valuable and important for a lot of different reasons. We’ve been trying colonization for hundreds of years and it just messes people up. It’s not making them any better. Positive identity development of any human is important. So what does an Indigenous person’s positive identity development look like? Language and culture.”
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“The future vitality of the Ojibwe language is not certain, but it is certainly possible.” —Anton Treuer
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“Though it may cost me my liberty, it is my duty, and I will continue to speak and act also, till the wrongs of my people shall be righted.” —Hole in the Day
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“He told me that the language was the key to everything in our culture,” Treuer wrote. “It was the cipher for sacred knowledge, and the Ojibwe way of being.”
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Gidaa-debweyenindizomin!
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Anton Treuer’s Indian name is waagosh, the Ojibwe word for fox, an animal known for its spry bounding. Treuer (pronounced Troy-er), a professor of Ojibwe language, often moves in this very manner: light on his feet, perpetually in motion, zigzagging between the ancient world and the modern one. He’s a man with one foot in the wigwam, and the other in the ivory tower, as he’s been known to put it. —Rachel Hutton
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Anton Treuer has authored “The Language Warrior’s Manifesto, How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds.” Treuer is professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, and he joins us to discuss the importance of revitalizing indigenous languages and cultures.
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“People wish it well, they just don’t necessarily do things to make it well,” Treuer says. “I think there’s a tendency for people in the mainstream to think of languages as like pretty birds singing in the forest. Like, ‘We love all the pretty birds. That’s neat. But not important.’ And that’s simply not the case.”
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Language Warrior Anton Treuer Revitalizes Ojibwe →
“My story and the story of communities like Lac Courte Oreilles are not isolated developments. They are part of an upswell, a resurgence, a revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures started by language warriors in many places. Their stories are incredible. They are inspiring. And they point the way.” —Anton Treuer
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The cover for “Nishiimeyinaanig” was illustrated by Wesley Ballinger.
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Indebweyendam!
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