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‘A language lives when it lives in the minds and hearts of young people’

“Our future depends on a new generation of community leaders to step forward,” Melanie Benjamin said.

News Release The Forge Project Forge Project, a Native-led arts and decolonial education initiative on the unceded homelands of the Muh-he-con-ne-ok in

184 pages The subtitle, How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds is a call to action for saving Indigenous languages, which will die out unless language warriors read and heed books like Anton Treuer’s The Language Warrior’s Manifesto. Treuer discusses issues that language warriors encounter as they revitalize their languages, including spirituality, fundraising, and dialects to name a few. Treuer begins by chronicling his journey towards Ojibwe spirituality and its possible connections to language revitalization. He wanted to learn the spiritual roots of the Ojibwe language a...

Reference Librarian The Minnesota Book Award Finalists were announced earlier this month, so I would like to highlight a few of them that will be available at the library. The Minnesota Book Awards are annual awards presented for the best books by Minnesota authors that honor Minnesota stories. You can be sure all of them are worthy of a look even if they don’t win the top prize. In the General Nonfiction category is “100 Cookies: The Baking Book for Every Kitchen, with Classic Cookies, Novel Treats, Brownies, Bars and More” by Sarah Kiefer (641.8654 Kieffer). This beautiful cookbook wa...