Thank you for being an integral part of our for A Virtual Mixer: Equity in Education community. National Board NAME, BIE NBCT Network, and Teach Plus Nevada are privileged to host a special guest speaker, Dr. Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er), Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and editor of the Oshkaabewis (pronounced o-shkaah-bay-wis) Native Journal, the only academic journal of the Ojibwe language. Dr. Treuer is an accomplished educator and author. He has engaged as a TEDTALK speaker presenting on Thriving in Indian Country: What's in the Way and How Do We Overcome? (https://youtu.be/dIxcfAlzwNk). Dr. Treuer will present THIS Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 7:30 P.M. ET./6:30 P.M. CT/4:30 P.M. PT Please find our meeting details below.
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Topic: A Virtual Mixer: Equity in Education with Dr. Anton Treuer
Time: Nov 24, 2020 04:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7433613347?pwd=NnV1TzB6aFA2a1VsRktEL2xHeWc0Zz09
Meeting ID: 743 361 3347
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BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er) is Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and author of 19 books. He has a B.A. from Princeton University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is Editor of the Oshkaabewis (pronounced o-shkaah-bay-wis) Native Journal, the only academic journal of the Ojibwe language. Dr. Treuer has presented all over the U.S. and Canada and in several foreign countries on Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, Cultural Competence & Equity, Strategies for Addressing the “Achievement” Gap, and Tribal Sovereignty, History, Language, and Culture. He has sat on many organizational boards and has received more than 40 prestigious awards and fellowships, including ones from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. His published works include Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds, Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe (Winner of Caroline Bancroft History Prize and the American Association of State and Local History Award of Merit), Ojibwe in Minnesota (“Minnesota’s Best Read for 2010” by The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress), The Assassination of Hole in the Day (Award of Merit Winner from the American Association for State and Local History), Atlas of Indian Nations, The Indian Wars: Battles, Bloodshed, and the Fight for Freedom on the American Frontier, and Awesiinyensag (“Minnesota’s Best Read for 2011” by The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress). Treuer is on the governing board for the Minnesota State Historical Society. In 2018, he was named Guardian of Culture and Lifeways and recipient of the Pathfinder Award by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. SHORT BIOGRAPHY Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er) is Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and author of 18 books. His equity, education, and cultural work has put him on a path of service around the region, the nation, and the world.