Anton Treuer

Anton Treuer (Ojibwe name "fox") 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 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.

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. 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 Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Distinguished Service in Education, 2011