“I think something that sometimes gets lost in our conversations about historical trauma and loss is that it's not just the bad stuff that gets passed forward,” he said. “The good stuff gets passed forward too. We are not just the inheritors of historical trauma, we are also the inheritors of historical resiliency.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreConnection and culture live inside of us. Having a rich cultural life is not just about looking out and looking for; it is about looking within. We can do that where ever we live. The awakening is healing and empowering. —Anton Treuer, The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World
Read MoreIndebweyendaan gaa-miinigoowiziyang.
Read MoreA collaborative effort between the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe - @mlbononremovable and the @minnesotahistoricalsociety/Minnesota Historical Society Press has resulted in the release of five books in the Ojibwe language. It’s all part of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe - Aanjibimaadizing Project where sixteen first speakers teamed with linguists, teachers, and Ojibwe language experts to create the books. Along with the books, the Aanjibimaadizing Project is developing a @rosettastone Ojibwe language learning program.
Read MoreShirley Boyd, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, is a fluent Ojibwe speaker. She participated in the band’s project with Rosetta Stone to create a learning program to help teach the Ojibwe language to future generations.
Read MoreDebweyendandaa!
Read More“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read More“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreOf 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 More“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 More“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read More“Indians. We Are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read More“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreFriends of the St. Paul Public Library interviews Anton Treuer on LWM: https://thefriends.org/2021/04/13/36-finalists-blog-anton-treur/
“We are ancient and modern.” —Anton Treuer
Read More“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood,” —Anton Treuer
Read MoreI was not just another Indian. No Indian really is.
Because we are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.
Northern Wisconsin’s only Ojibwe immersion school built a successful program to revitalize its language. Then the pandemic upended the tribe’s life
Read More“Indians. We are so often imagined and so infrequently well understood.” —Anton Treuer
Read More“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
