THE LANGUAGE WARRIOR: In Minnesota, the country’s last stronghold of native Ojibwe speakers, a professor is racing to preserve their knowledge.

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THE 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

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Anton Treuer Rallies Ojibwe Warriors: Why Saving Native Languages Matters →

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Anton 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.”

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Preserving Culture on the Tongue: Anton Treuer

Preserving Culture on the Tongue: Anton Treuer

In “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. 

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Ojibwe Program Receives Major Grant to Accelerate Ojibwe Instruction

In 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.

Source: https://mankato.mnsu.edu/about-the-univers...