Margaret Treuer was an enrolled member of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation and a lifelong resident of the Leech Lake Reservation.

as one of the most prolific scholars of Ojibwe, and at the forefront of a movement to textualize this formerly oral language in hopes of preserving and revitalizing it.

Treuer has also worked extensively with the Ojibwe language immersion efforts underway in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

In 2024, the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute where Treuer serves at Vice President of the Board received a $1.5 million dollar grant from MacKenzie Scott.

Treuer is actively building an Ojibwe teacher training program at Bemidji State University and has presented all over the United States, Canada, and in several other countries on his publications, cultural competence and equity, tribal sovereignty and history, Ojibwe language and culture, and strategies for addressing the "achievement gap".