Anton Treuer is an American academic and author specializing in the Ojibwe language and American Indian studies. He is professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, Minnesota, and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.[1]
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| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Parent | Margaret Treuer |
| Relatives | David Treuer (brother) |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | History |
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Early life and education
editAnton Treuer was born in 1969 in Washington, D.C. to Robert and Margaret Treuer. Robert Treuer was an Austrian Jew and Holocaust survivor. Margaret Treuer was an enrolled member of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation and a lifelong resident of the Leech Lake Reservation. She was a tribal judge and was the first female Indian attorney in Minnesota.[2] Anton Treuer grew up in and around the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota and went to high school in Bemidji.[3] He earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and an MA in 1994 and PhD in 1996 from the University of Minnesota.[citation needed]
His brother, David Treuer, is also a writer and academic.
Academic career and work
editTreuer has authored or edited more than 20 books. He also edits the only academic journal about the Ojibwe language, the Oshkaabewis Native Journal.[1] After serving as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1996-2000, Treuer returned to his home town of Bemidji as professor of Ojibwe, a position he still holds today.
Treuer's publications and academic work have remained very broad. The Assassination of Hole in the Day was a major historical research project. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask is designed as a broadly accessible general reader book on American Indians. He has also published extensively in linguistics and Ojibwe language. His first work of fiction, Where Wolves Don't Die was released in 2024. He is widely recognized[by whom?] as one of the most prolific scholars of Ojibwe, and at the forefront of a movement to textualize this formerly oral language in hopes of preserving and revitalizing it. Treuer has also worked extensively with the Ojibwe language immersion efforts underway in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario. He is part of a team of scholars developing Rosetta Stone for Ojibwe with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Treuer has presented all over the United States, Canada, and in several other countries on his publications, cultural competence and equity, tribal sovereignty and history, Ojibwe language and culture, and strategies for addressing the "achievement gap".[4][5]
Publications
edit- Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories (ed.), Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001[6]
- Ojibwe in Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society, 2010.
- The Assassination of Hole in the Day, Borealis, 2012[7][8][9][10][11]
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012.[3][12][13]
- Atlas of Indian Nations, National Geographic Society, 2014
- Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015.
- The Indian Wars: Battles, Bloodshed, and the Fight for Freedom on the American Frontier, National Geographic, 2017.
- The Language Warrior's Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2020 (finalist for the 2021 Minnesota Book Awards.)[14]
- The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2021.
- Where Wolves Don’t Die, 2024
- Mino-doodaading: Dibaajimowinan Ji-mino-ayaang, 2013.
- Awesiinyensag: Dibaajimowinan Ji-gikinoo’amaageng, 2010, 2020.
- Naadamaading: Dibaajimowinan Ji-nisidotaading, 2013
- Ezhichigeng: Ojibwe Word List, 2011.
- Wiijikiiwending, 2014.
- Aaniin Ekidong: Ojibwe Vocabulary Project, 2010.
- Omaa Akiing, 1996.
- Akawe Niwii-tibaajim, 2020.
- Nishiimeyinaanig, 2020.
- Anooj Inaajimod, 2020.
- Gaa-pi-izhiwebak, 2020.
- Ge-ni-aabadak Giniigaaniiminaang, 2020.
Awards
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Preston, Rohan (March 22, 2011). "Sally Awards go to a variety of visionaries". Minneapolis Star Tribune. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ Hutton, Rachel (April 12, 2020). "Meet the Bemidji professor on a quest to keep the Ojibwe language alive". Star Tribune.
- ^ a b "A new book answers your questions about Indians". Minnesota Public Radio. May 4, 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ "About". Anton Treuer. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
- ^ "Anton Treuer | Directory | Bemidji State University". www.bemidjistate.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
- ^ "Spring 2001 Book List". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ Pember, Mary Annette (December 13, 2010). "Book Review: Lending Credibility to the Oral Tradition". Diverse. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ Date, Steve (September 24, 2012). "Intriguing 'what if' of Dakota War history: Hole in the Day's big bluff". Minn Post. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ "Anton Treuer releases 'The Assassination of Hole in the Day'". MinnPost. November 9, 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ Poupart, Lisa M. (Fall 2012). "The Assassination of Hole in the Day (review)". Wíčazo Ša Review. 27 (2): 135. doi:10.5749/wicazosareview.27.2.0135. JSTOR 10.5749/wicazosareview.27.2.0135.
- ^ Martinez, D (2012). "Anton Treuer. The Assassination of Hole in the Day (review)". The American Historical Review. 117 (2): 516–517. doi:10.1086/ahr.117.2.516-a.
- ^ Leddy, Chuck (April 28, 2012). ""Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask," by Anton Treuer". Minnesota Star Tribune. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ Rickert, Levi (April 22, 2013). "Book Review: Avoid Asking Strange & Embarrassing Questions about Indians by Reading Anton Treuer". Tulalip News. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ "Language Warrior Anton Treuer Named 2021 Minnesota Book Award Finalist | News | Bemidji State University". www.bemidjistate.edu. February 4, 2021. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
- ^ "Dr. Anton Treuer, Pathfinder Award Acceptance at the 2018 ATALM Annual Conference | The Sustainable Heritage Network". www.sustainableheritagenetwork.org. Retrieved 2022-10-14.