“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 MoreThe cover for “Nishiimeyinaanig” was illustrated by Wesley Ballinger.
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Read More“Language can disrupt the glue for colonial thinking which has been fundamentally dehumanising to indigenous people.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreIn a unique collaboration between Bemidji State University and Mankato State University, students from both institutions will engage in shared experiential learning in multiple sites and through interactive instruction at both campuses.
Minnesota State University, Mankato’s American Indigenous Studies Program, in partnership with Bemidji State University, has been awarded a $64,208 multicampus collaboration grant through the Minnesota State system for an Ojibwe Language Consortium.
The grant will support an ongoing collaboration with Bemidji State University, which offers Ojibwe language courses to students at BSU and Minnesota State Mankato, as well as expand the existing partnership to include experiential learning opportunities and community engagement for students enrolled in the courses.
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Read More"The question is, what people and things deserve primacy of place in the public sphere?"
Read More"Indians. They are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood." —Treuer in "Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask"
Read More"Every time they tried to bury us, they didn't realize that we were the seeds." —Anna Gibbs in "Warrior Nation"
Read MoreThe 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 MoreFrom conquests to culture clashes to tribal combat, learn how the Indian Wars changed the world.
Read More“Even when I am dead, I will haunt the shores of these waters. My spirit will never be at rest until all of the lake is back in the hands of my people.” —Peter Graves in Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
Read More"Power concedes nothing without demand." —Frederick Douglass
Read More"Every time they tried bury us, they didn't realize that we were the seeds." —Anna Gibbs
Read More"Power concedes nothing without demand." —Frederick Douglass
Read MoreThe Indian Wars: Battles, Bloodshed, and the Fight for Freedom on the American Frontier
Read MoreRed Lake has been mentioned in books before, but Treuer's "Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe" is the first major history book about the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
Read MoreWhen 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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