Warrior Nation Book Review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune

Warrior Nation Book Review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune

When Chief He Who Is Spoken To and other tribal leaders met with government negotiators in 1889, “They would sign nothing unless it protected the exclusive tribal ownership of both Upper and Lower Red Lake,” Treuer writes. “Today, a third of Upper Red Lake is excluded from the reservation boundaries. There are white homes and resorts along the shore at Waskish, on Upper Red Lake.” The people of Red Lake “bear no ill will against the white residents there, but they know the land rightfully belongs to them.” —Chuck Haga

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Anton Treuer on C-SPAN Book TV: After Words

Anton Treuer on C-SPAN Book TV: After Words

In his book, this expert of Ojibwe history and language answers more than one hundred questions about Native Americans, many of which he’s been asked while giving public lecturers in Minnesota. The questions range from thoughtful and funny to what many may consider offensive, but Mr. Treuer answers with frankness, and often from a personal perspective. 

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