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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Read More“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 MoreIn “The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: Indigenous Language, Culture, and Art in Motion,” the first lecture in the School for Advanced Research’s Indian Arts Research Center 2020 Speaker Series, Treuer discusses language revitalization in art and culture as a means of healing intergenerational trauma.
Read More“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
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