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BOOKS The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds Anton Treuer The Indian Wars: Battles, Bloodshed & the Fight for Freedom on the American Frontier Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask Author • Speaker • Trainer • Professor Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe Ojibwe in Minnesota The Assassination of Hole in the Day Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories Atlas of Indian Nations Mino-doodaading: Dibaajimowinan Ji-mino-ayaang Awesiinyensag: Dibaajimowinan Ji-gikinoo’amaageng Naadamaading: Dibaajomiwinan Ji-nisidotaading Ezhichigeng: Ojibwe Word List Wiijikiiwending Aaniin Ekidong: Ojibwe Vocabulary Project Omaa Akiing Akawe Niwii-tibaajim Nishiimeyinaanig Anooj Inaajimod Indian Nations of North America 40+ AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS, INCLUDING American Philosophical Society National Endowment for the Humanities National Science Foundation Bush Foundation John Simon Guggenheim Foundation WORK Professor of Ojibwe, Bemidji State University, 8/2000-present Executive Director, American Indian Resource Center, Bemidji State University, 11/2012- 7/2015 Editor, Oshkaabewis Native Journal, Bemidji State University, 3/1995-present Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 8/1996-6/2001 Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er) is Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji PRESENTATION EXPERIENCE State University and author of 19 Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask books. His equity, education, and Cultural Competence & Equity cultural work has put him on a path Strategies for Addressing the Achievement Gap of service around the region, the Tribal Sovereignty & History nation, and the world. Ojibwe Language & Culture EDUCATION http://antontreuer.com Ph.D.: History, University of Minnesota, 1997 B.A. Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1991 Anton Treuer Author • Speaker • Trainer • Professor http://antontreuer.com Books Published •The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2020). •Akawe Niwii-tibaajim (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2020). •Nishiimeyinaanig (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2020). •Anooj Inaajimod (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2020). •The Indian Wars: Battles, Bloodshed, and the Fight for Freedom on the American Frontier (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2017). This a survey of the major battles and conflicts in the multigenerational struggle of native peoples to retain their lands and ways of life, beautifully illustrated and accessible to all readers. •Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015). Winner, Caroline Bancroft History Prize, 2016. Winner, Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History, 2016. The gripping true story of how Ojibwe people came to Red Lake, endured and transformed through the treaty period and war on tribal culture, and emerged as one of the strongest, most sovereign and unique native nations in America. Research includes divulgence of never-before-seen archival materials from Red Lake, including depositions of Nelson Act participants and numerous historical photographs. •Mino-doodaading: Dibaajimowinan Ji-mino-ayaang (Minneapolis: Wiigwaas Press, 2014). Ojibwe young reader stories with innovative culture-based storyboards and illustrations. •Atlas of Indian Nations (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2014). Sweeping atlas of native nations in the U.S. and Canada, including detailed content on all 561 tribes in the U.S. and all First Nations in Canada. Beautifully illustrated and detailed. •Naadamaading: Dibaajimowinan Ji-nisidotaading (Minneapolis: Wiigwaas Press, 2013). Ojibwe young reader stories with innovative culture-based storyboards and illustrations. •Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012). This book is a series of questions and answers about Indian history and culture. •The Assassination of Hole in the Day (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011). Winner, Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History, 2011. Biography of the chiefs Hole in the Day (father and son) in 19th century. This book uses an innovative new approach to Indian history that combines oral history and archival material. It focuses on the chiefs as agents of change in the nature of Ojibwe leadership during the time period. •Ezhichigeyang: Ojibwe Word List (Hayward, Wisconsin: Waadookodaading Ojibwe Immersion Charter School, 2011). Co-Editor. An Ojibwe dictionary of terminology for wigwam building and fishing. 1 •Ojibwe in Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2010). Best Read in Minnesota 2010, The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. History of the Ojibwe in Minnesota from origin and Ojibwe migration to Minnesota to current issues, including political and economic development, language revitalization, and more. Named “Best Read in Minnesota 2010,” by The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. •Wiijikiiwending (Minneapolis: Wiigwaas Press, 2014). Ojibwe young reader stories with innovative culture-based storyboards and illustrations. •Indian Nations of North America (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2010). Chapter author. Pictorial history of Indians of North America. Treuer authored the section on the Northeast. •Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001). Finalist, Minnesota Book Award. An anthology of bilingual Ojibwe stories, complete with glossary and maps. All stories by Ojibwe elders recorded, transcribed and translated by Anton Treuer. Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. •Omaa Akiing (Princeton: Western Americana, 2002). An anthology of stories told in the Ojibwe language by elders from the Leech Lake Indian reservation. Anton Treuer recorded, transcribed and edited all material, and wrote a history of the Ojibwe language and the story tellers, including a discussion of language study to accompany the text. •Aaniin Ekidong: Ojibwe Vocabulary Project (St. Paul: Minnesota Humanities Center, 2009). Co-Editor with Keller Paap. An Ojibwe dictionary project for new and undocumented terminology. Anton Treuer and Keller Paap transcribed and edited all entries. •Awesiinyensag: Dibaajimowinan Ji-gikinoo’amaageng (Minneapolis: Birchbark House, 2010). Co-Editor. Best Read in Minnesota 2011, The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Ojibwe young reader stories with innovative culture-based storyboards and illustrations. Named “Best Read in Minnesota 2011,” by The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Articles Published •“Eagle Was Keeper of Culture,” Mille Lacs Messenger (August 24, 2014) •“Sharing Human Experience: The Story of Hole in the Day,” History News, American Association of State and Local History, Winter 2015, pp. 17-21 •“Arizona Law on Ethnic Studies Inherently Self-Contradictory,” Forum on EthnoGeoPolitics (Autumn 2013) 52-53 •“Breaking the Gender Barrier in Tribal Politics,” Star Tribune (11/07/2012) •“Ojibwe Lifeways: What can we learn today from the early inhabitants of Minnesota who gathered and hunted wild foods to survive?” Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (September-October 2012) •“Ogimaawiwin.” Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 8, No. 1: Spring 2011) 76-77. 2 •“Ma’iingan.” Editor/Transcriber. By George Fairbanks. Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 8, No. 1: Spring 2011) 14-15. •“Gidizhi-giizhwewininaan.” Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 8, No. 1: Spring 2011) 9-11. •“Azhegiiweyaan.” In Jon Welsh, Reversal (Undine Press, 2012) 5. •“Waasabiikwe.” Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 7, No. 2: Spring 2010) 9-20. •“Gaag Miinawaa Wiikenh.” Editor/Transcriber. By Anna C. Gibbs. Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 7, No. 2: Spring 2010) 24-27. •“Ajidamoo Miinawaa Aandegwag.” Editor/Transcriber. By Anna C. Gibbs. Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 7, No. 2: Spring 2010) 28-29. •“Wenji-anishinaabewiyang.” Editor/Transcriber. By Anna C. Gibbs. Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 7, No. 2: Spring 2010) 30-33. •“Gaa-ondinang Mikinaak Odashwaan Imaa Obikwanaang.” Editor/Transcriber. By Anna C. Gibbs. Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 7, No. 2: Spring 2010) 34-37. •“Nenabozho Miinawaa Ditibidaabaan.” Editor/Transcriber. By Anna C. Gibbs. Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 7, No. 2: Spring 2010) 38-41. •“Akiwenzii Miinawaa Gaag.” Editor/Transcriber. By Anna C. Gibbs. Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 7, No. 2: Spring 2010) 42-43. •“Nenabozho Miinawaa Gaag.” Editor/Transcriber. By Anna C. Gibbs. Oshkaabewis Native Journal. Bemidji: Indian Studies Publications, Bemidji State University (Vol. 7, No. 2: Spring 2010) 44-45. •“Ziinzibaakwad.” Editor/Transcriber. By Anna C. Gibbs.