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Anton Treuer
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Treuer in 2014
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| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) Washington, D.C., U.S.
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| Parent(s) | Margaret Treuer |
| Relatives | David Treuer (brother) |
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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.
Early life and education
Anton 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. Anton Treuer grew up in and around the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota and went to high school in Bemidji. He earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and an MA in 1994 and PhD in 1996 from the University of Minnesota.
His brother, David Treuer, is also a writer and academic.
Academic career and work
Treuer has authored or edited more than 20 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. His first work of fiction, Where Wolves Don't Die was released in 2024. 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, 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".
Awards
- Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Distinguished Service in Education, 2011
- Pathfinder Award by Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, 2018
