Anton Treuer is an American academic and author specializing in the

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and American Indian studies. He is professor of Ojibwe at

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, Minnesota and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.

Early life and education

Anton Treuer was born in Washington, D.C. in 1969 to Robert and Margaret Treuer. Robert Treuer was an Austrian Jew and

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. 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 the State of Minnesota. Anton Treuer grew up in and around the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota and went to high school in

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. He was awarded a BA from

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in 1991 and an MA in 1994 and PhD in 1996 from the

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. His brother, David Treuer, is also a writer and academic.

Academic career and work

Anton Treuer has authored or edited 18 books. He also edits the only academic journal about the Ojibwe language, the Oshkaabewis Native Journal. 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. He is widely recognized 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 of America, 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."

Publications

* ''Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories'' (ed.), Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001 * ''Ojibwe in Minnesota,'' Minnesota Historical Society, 2010. * ''The Assassination of Hole in the Day'', Borealis, 2012 * ''Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask'', Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012. * ''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.) * ''The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World'', Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2021.

Awards

* Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Distinguished Service in Education, 2011 * Pathfinder Award by Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, 2018

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Treuer, Anton 1969 births 20th-century linguists 21st-century linguists Bemidji State University faculty Date of birth missing (living people) Living people Native American linguists Native American studies Ojibwe people People from Washington, D.C. Princeton University alumni University of Minnesota alumni