The Language Warrior's Manifesto
How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds

It's a rare day when I get a review copy that hadn't even made it into the Goodreads database yet. I received access from the publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press through Edelweiss. Dr. Treuer has written histories of the Ojibwe and this is a localized history of the efforts to revitalize and......more

Sometimes books are about so much than they're about, and this is one of them. It's quite straightforward, being an account of how the author became invested in Ojibwe language education, and offering advice to others who want to revitalize Indigenous languages, and is so clear and easy to read, it......more

Anton Treuer’s The Language Warrior’s Manifesto is a genre-defying work that engages with the topic of language revitalization on a number of levels. Treuer simultaneously tells the tale of his own alienation from his family’s Ojibwe roots and his subsequent efforts to learn the Ojibwe language and......more

The ins and outs of establishing Native language programs Half of the Native kids in America do not even finish high school. Half. The system is not working. Dr. Anton Treuer has vast experience and advice for those wishing to improve education for this population of children by explaining how learn......more

I think Treuer does a good job of splitting the difference between writing for those who are, like himself, aiming to revitalize a language and those who are just reading the book to read it. It gives a history of what he has done with Ojibwe as a story while laying out the instructions of what to d......more