Anton Treuer Books in Order

Anton Treuer gathers stories and memories from ten Anishinaabe elders, presenting Ojibwe texts alongside English translations. Their accounts preserve humor, history and individual voices while supporting efforts to carry an endangered language into future generations.

The 1868 murder of Ojibwe leader Hole in the Day prompts an investigation into power, cultural tradition and competing interests. Anton Treuer draws on elders' accounts to examine the assassination and the changing world surrounding it.

This Ojibwe vocabulary reference brings together terms used in traditional fishing and wigwam construction. Anton Treuer and his collaborators organize language around practical cultural activities, connecting words with the knowledge needed to describe these practices.

Anton Treuer answers more than 120 questions about Native American history, culture and contemporary life. Drawing on scholarship and personal experience, he addresses misconceptions and uncomfortable subjects to encourage more informed conversations across cultural divides.

Four centuries of Red Lake Ojibwe history reveal how a nation defended its land, language and political independence. Anton Treuer combines elders' accounts with tribal archives to explore the choices that sustained this distinctive community.

Anton Treuer examines the conflicts that reshaped the American West through Native resistance, conquest and survival. Maps, photographs and accounts of key battles place individual leaders and distinct tribal communities within the wider struggle over land.

Drawing on his work revitalizing Ojibwe, Anton Treuer explores why Indigenous languages disappear and how communities can sustain them. Personal stories and successful teaching programs offer practical approaches to preserving the cultural knowledge carried through speech.

Through his family's hunting, harvesting and cultural practices, Anton Treuer explores how Ojibwe traditions remain active in modern life. Personal accounts show adaptation and continuity while respecting knowledge that is not meant for public disclosure.

After a bully's house burns down, Ojibwe teenager Ezra becomes a suspect and leaves Minneapolis to stay with his grandfather in Canada. Wilderness lessons and family bonds offer refuge, but the people pursuing him have not given up.