[Unedited] David Treuer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Writer David Treuer’s work tells a story that is richer and more multi-dimensional than the American history most of us learned in school. Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. At the time of our conversation with him in 2008, he was part of an ongoing project to document the grammar and usage of the Ojibwe language. He says the recovery of tribal languages and names is part of a fuller recovery of our national story — and the human story. And it holds unexpected observations altogether about language and meaning that most of us express unselfconsciously in our mother tongues. This interview originally aired in June 2008.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:07.0	Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force for our lives.
0:13.0	A powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world.
0:19.0	Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.0	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with our jibway writer David Troyer.
0:29.0	There is a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:34.0	I'm really... I've just so enjoyed getting steeped in your work and your writing this these few days.
0:41.0	And I don't...
0:44.0	I define... we define and evoke the whole notion of religion and spirituality broadly with the program.
0:55.0	And don't always try to take it on directly, but how this impulse and these traditions run through life.
1:02.0	Sure.
1:03.0	And I think that is all the way through your work.
1:05.0	So, you know, we will talk a bit about spirituality per se, but I think whenever you're talking about someone's sense of self and human identity,
1:14.0	I mean, you are talking about the human spirit as well.
1:18.0	So, let's just... I know it's going to be fun and let's just see how it works.
1:18.0	Okay.
1:23.0	We'll see where we go.
1:23.0	Yeah.
1:24.0	Um, make sure you're ready.
1:25.0	You need to hear him.
1:26.0	Okay.
1:27.0	What did you have for lunch?
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