Indebweyendaan gaa-miinigoowiziyang.
Read MoreAnton Treuer: Keeping the Language Alive →
Ojibwe
OJIBWE LANGUAGE BOOKS: Five books released with stories told by elders →
A collaborative effort between the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe - @mlbononremovable and the @minnesotahistoricalsociety/Minnesota Historical Society Press has resulted in the release of five books in the Ojibwe language. It’s all part of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe - Aanjibimaadizing Project where sixteen first speakers teamed with linguists, teachers, and Ojibwe language experts to create the books. Along with the books, the Aanjibimaadizing Project is developing a @rosettastone Ojibwe language learning program.
Read More‘This is how they see the world’: Mille Lacs launches Rosetta Stone program to teach Ojibwe →
Shirley Boyd, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, is a fluent Ojibwe speaker. She participated in the band’s project with Rosetta Stone to create a learning program to help teach the Ojibwe language to future generations.
Read MoreAnton Treuer's Quest to Revive the Ojibwe Language →
Debweyendandaa!
Read MoreAnton Treuer on Language Revitalization and the Rosetta Stone →
“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.”
Read MoreDigitizing Indigenous Languages: Scholars Use Technology To Preserve Their Native Languages →
Luckily, the intersection of Indigenous language and technology is nothing new and goes far beyond online Zoom classes. For more than a decade, Indigenous speakers have been making great headway to digitize their languages for future generations, noting its ability to — as Treuer put it — bridge space and time.
Read MoreAnton Treuer's Quest to Revive the Ojibwe Language
Anton Treuer thinks the solutions to many of America’s most challenging problems lie in understanding a language that, until recently, only a few people on the planet still spoke.
Read MoreKeeping Native Languages Alive: Anton Treuer on the Adam Conover Podcast →
“Learning an indigenous language is a powerful healing and decolonizing act.” —Anton Treuer in The Language Warrior’s Manifesto
Read MoreWords and Bridges: Revitalizing Ojibwe
“The future vitality of the Ojibwe language is not certain, but it is certainly possible.” —Anton Treuer
Read More“Manifesto” Fiercely Explains Why You Need Your Native Language →
“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.”
Read MoreKeeping Languages Alive →
Gidaa-debweyenindizomin!
Read MoreNative Voices v. Virus →
Anton Treuer leads the Ojibwe language revitalization efforts at Bemidji State University and helps other programs across Minnesota.
Read MoreTHE LANGUAGE WARRIOR: In Minnesota, the country’s last stronghold of native Ojibwe speakers, a professor is racing to preserve their knowledge.
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
Read MoreThe Language Warrior's Manifesto on Prairie Public Radio →
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.
Read MoreAnton Treuer Rallies Ojibwe Warriors: Why Saving Native Languages Matters →
“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.”
Read MoreThree new Ojibwe-language books will tell the stories of tribal elders in their own words →
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
Read MoreMille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Signs Historic Agreement with Minnesota Historical Society Press to Publish Multiple Books in Ojibwe
The cover for “Nishiimeyinaanig” was illustrated by Wesley Ballinger.
Read MoreWhen Language Is More Than Words →
The goal, “is about building strong human beings who are OK in their own skin as load-bearing members of the country and the world, and with a toolbox for health and happiness.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreMPR: Professor wants to foster new generation of Ojibwe speakers →
The history of the Ojibwe people goes back thousands of years and is woven into the story of the state of Minnesota. One writer and college professor is determined that Ojibwe history, language and culture not be forgotten.
Read More