Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe

My great grandmother Fanny Johns is mentioned a couple times in here. I Love learning about the history of my tribe. Red Lake Nation has a awesome, sometimes sad but intriguing history and Treuer captures that amazingly in this book! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I didn't grow up in this country and since I moved here I have been interested in the story of the American Indians. As I now live in Minnesota I'm particularly interested in the American Indians in this state. This is a very interesting story that I think should be taught to everyone in school. It is tragic how the American Indians were lied to and cheated out of their lands. At least the Red Lake Ojibwe did much better than a lot of Indian groups. The Red Lake Ojibwe still hit the news every now and then today because of the events in the past that haven't been settled. I wish more people knew the background to the current stories. I did feel that it was a little long and went into a little too much detail in some places but maybe that is just my impatience to get a book finished and move on to the next one. I do wonder if there is more that Anton could have said about what the internal politics at Red Lake but he didn't want to upset the current people living there. I have also heard Anton speak on the radio and he is very interesting.

Outstanding. Informative. A well written peek into a portion of history that is too often ignored in our public schools and, as a result, by the general public of our country. The history of Native Americans in general, and, in this particular instance, the Ojibwe, or Chippewa. The best thing you will take away from a reading of this work is the opportunity to meet and become familiar with some truly remarkable people, such as He Who is Spoken To, and Nodin Wind, to name just two of my favorites. By learning not just about a people in general, but about individuals who are of those people, it takes a history that would otherwise be an abstract, full of dates and places, and finds a way to put the faces of human beings on, and into, that history. You come away knowing you have read not just about events and timelines, you've read and learned about a people. A people to be respected.

Having some familiarity with the area (my first job out of college, 50 years ago, was nearby), and while having known about the abiding antipathies between many of the Whites and Natives, I had no real access to an unbiased history. This book fills that gap. Thorough, balanced, and understandable, this book may well enrage people who insist on believing there was nothing immoral about the century of ethnic cleansingand fraud. Well, friends: T.S. Read this and admire the grit of people who really have been tougher than Marion Simpson's "John Wayne" character. (btw, the Duke did everything he could to avoid actual military service - the very thought of doing so scared him to death. Compare that to the Red Lakers.)

Excellent read on the true history of central and northern Minnesota.

Author’s knowledge of the ojibwe culture.

I’m halfway through.

Very good reference book !!!