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Read MoreAnton Treuer's Quest to Revive the Ojibwe Language →
Sovereignty is Sacred: Sharing our Rights and Cultures →
“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreOne Community One Read Hosts Anton Treuer →
“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreA Native ‘Ambassador in the Borderlands’ →
Of course, within Indigenous communities, we have a diversity of opinions—and emotionally charged opinions—on a whole range of topics, and we don’t all think the same way, act the same way, vote the same way.
Read MoreBemidji State’s Dr. Anton Treuer Appointed to the United Nations’ Technical Working Group on Energy
“Indigenous people have a lot to teach the rest of the world. And we live in and protect a lot of the world’s most sensitive ecosystems. I’m also looking forward to working with some of the brightest minds on the planet on one of the most important endeavors of our time.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreGreat Review of the Audio Book for Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask on AudioFile →
“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreFargo-Moorhead-West Fargo One Read Selection 2021: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask →
“Indians. We Are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreBook Riot: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask →
“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreAnton Treuer, author of The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds →
Friends of the St. Paul Public Library interviews Anton Treuer on LWM: https://thefriends.org/2021/04/13/36-finalists-blog-anton-treur/
'Our hearts are heavy': COVID-19 deaths of tribal elders leave a void →
“We are ancient and modern.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreAnton Treuer on "Main Street" Prairie Public Radio →
“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood,” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreReading Style Guide: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition →
I was not just another Indian. No Indian really is.
Because we are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.
‘Race against the clock’: the school fighting to save the Ojibwe language before its elders pass away →
Northern Wisconsin’s only Ojibwe immersion school built a successful program to revitalize its language. Then the pandemic upended the tribe’s life
Read MoreBook Launch Announced for the Young Reader Edition of "Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask" →
“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreFast Horse Hosts Anton Treuer to Discuss "The Language Warrior's Manifesto" →
“The Ojibwe language is beautiful. One example that gets at the way language encodes meaning is our parting, ‘giga-waabamin miinawaa,’ which means ‘I”ll see you again.’ We have no word for goodbye. It’s ‘I’ll see you again’ in this world or the next — an affirmation of the soul-to-soul connection between two people.”
Read More"New Administration, New Agenda": Anton Treuer Breaks Down What the Biden Era Means for Natives →
“We have to manifest our sovereignty.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreMackin Community In Depth with Anton Treuer on Teaching Young Readers Everything They Need to Know About Indians →
“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreA Surge in Online Learning Is Helping Revive Indigenous Languages →
Preserving and teaching Indigenous languages is literally a race against time in many cases, and Covid-19 has made that race even more difficult as it most severely impacts elders. One of Treuer’s other projects is collecting stories from elders to print into books. It’s a task that normally requires convening 50 people, and so it’s been put on hold for now. “In Mille Lacs, one of the elders that was a major contributor on our books just died. So if not for that, we probably would have had another 20 stories from her,” says Treuer.
Read MoreAmerica Amplified 2020: What National Politics Misses and What Gives →
“In our politics, especially, we ‘other’ one another. We take an adversarial position with one another,” Treuer says. “I’ve heard some White folk who are really worried about the loss of cultural, political and economic power. That we’re going to flip roles between who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed. So they’re fighting with one another instead of working together to fight oppression.”
Read MoreAnton Treuer on Language Revitalization and the Rosetta Stone →
“I think these things are really valuable and important for a lot of different reasons. We’ve been trying colonization for hundreds of years and it just messes people up. It’s not making them any better. Positive identity development of any human is important. So what does an Indigenous person’s positive identity development look like? Language and culture.”
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