UND to Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on October 13th

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(by Connor Murphy. UND Today) – The campus community is invited to join the Indigenous Student Center at the Memorial Union Small Ballroom at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 13 for a celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

“Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Building a Bridge for Shared Understanding and Collective Action” will be an event featuring guest speaker Anton Treuer, author and professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University. The event will also be streamed on Zoom for those unable to attend in person.

Treuer is a member of the governing boards for the Minnesota State Historical Society and Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute and has received many prestigious awards and fellowships, according to his biography. In 2018, he was named Guardian of Culture and Lifeways by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums. He is building an Ojibwe teacher training program at Bemidji State, and his equity, education and cultural work has put him on a path of service around the country.

His published works include “Where Wolves Don’t Die,” “Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask,” “The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds,” “The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World,” “Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe,” “Ojibwe in Minnesota,” “The Assassination of Hole in the Day,” “Atlas of Indian Nations,” “The Indian Wars: Battles, Bloodshed, and the Fight for Freedom on the American Frontier,” and “Awesiinyensag.”