Anton Treuer

Anton Treuer is an American academic and author specialising in the Ojibwe language and American Indian studies. He is professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, Minnesota and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.

Anton Treuer was born in Washington, D.C. in 1969 to Robert and Margaret Treuer. Robert Treuer is an Austrian Jew and Holocaust survivor. Margaret Treuer is an enrolled member of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation and a lifelong resident of the Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation. She is a retired 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 Bemidji.

He was awarded a BA from Princeton in 1991 and an MA in 1994 and PhD in 1996 from the University of Minnesota. His siblings are also quite accomplished. His brother Micah Treuer is a medical doctor. His brother David Treuer is an award-winning author and essayist. His sister Megan Treuer is Associate Judge for the Leech Lake Ojibwe Nation. Anton is married to Blair Treuer and they have nine children.

Anton Treuer has authored or edited 14 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.

Anton Treuer is also widely known for his volunteer work at Ojibwe ceremonies, where he helps officiate at medicine dance and ceremonial drums in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Ojibwe maintain a vibrant musical and religious tradition, and Treuer is often acknowledged to be one of the youngest knowledgeable teachers and leaders of such ceremonies.

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012.
• Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories (ed.), Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001
• The Assassination of Hole in the Day, Borealis, 2012
• Ojibwe in Minnesota. St. Paul, Minnesota Historical Society, 2010.
• Atlas of Indian Nations, National Geographic Society, 2014
• Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe

• Leddy, Chuck (April 28, 2012). "NONFICTION: "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. 
• "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)". Wicazo Sa Review. 27 (2): 135. doi:10.5749/wicazosareview.27.2.0135. JSTOR 10.5749/wicazosareview.27.2.0135. (registration required (help)). 
• 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. 

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