Join celebrated author Anton Treuer for a discussion about the Indigenous experience with logging, treaties, and colonial expansion in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He’ll delve into the politics, economics, ecology, and culture of America’s first capitalist enterprise in the area and how tribes and tribal people adapted to changes in the land, economy, and demography. Anton Treuer is author of twenty books, including The Assassination of Hole in the Day and Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe which explore this topic.

While you wait, view a recording of his talk with us last year as part of the NEA Big Read on Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask. You can also explore books he has written that are available at Stillwater Public Library and Washington County Library.

This event is part of We Are Water MN, a traveling exhibit and community engagement initiative that explores the science, history, story, culture, and relationships of water in Minnesota, and, in this case, the lower St. Croix River Valley. The exhibit will be on view at Stillwater Public Library from October 12 through December 3, 2023. We Are Water MN is led by the Minnesota Humanities Center in partnership with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; Board of Water and Soil Resources; the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources; the Minnesota Historical Society; and the University of Minnesota Extension. We Are Water MN is funded in part with money from the Clean Water, Land, & Legacy Fund and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.