“Learning an indigenous language is a powerful healing and decolonizing act.” —Anton Treuer in The Language Warrior’s Manifesto
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Words and Bridges: Revitalizing Ojibwe
“The future vitality of the Ojibwe language is not certain, but it is certainly possible.” —Anton Treuer
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'“The Indians were fighting for their best chance at a long, healthy, happy life.” —Anton Treuer
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“America is having a racial reckoning.” —Anton Treuer
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“It’s a no brainer to me on why we should be doing this,” Treuer said. “Ultimately, the schools, universities that are most successful in equipping people for a world that will surely be multiracial and multicultural and will always have an Indigenous story, I think they are going to have the greatest success.”
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“Though it may cost me my liberty, it is my duty, and I will continue to speak and act also, till the wrongs of my people shall be righted.” —Hole in the Day
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“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.”
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Anton Treuer leads the Ojibwe language revitalization efforts at Bemidji State University and helps other programs across Minnesota.
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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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“Bemidji State University should be holding up and pushing forward the things that give it a real competitive advantage, and I think that this is one of the things,” Anton Treuer said. “This is something really unique about our area.”
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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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“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
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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“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
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The cover for “Nishiimeyinaanig” was illustrated by Wesley Ballinger.
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