Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak

Series produced by WTIP

Caption: Erik Redix
Erik Redix 

Welcome to Anishinaabe Radio! The host is Erik Redix, Ojibwe Language Director at Oshki Ogimaag in Grand Portage. A bilingual approach to storytelling, the show features Ojibwe first speakers telling stories in English and Ojibwemowin—the Ojibwe Language.

Welcome to Anishinaabe Radio! The host is Erik Redix, Ojibwe Language Director at Oshki Ogimaag in Grand Portage. A bilingual approach to storytelling, the show features Ojibwe first speakers telling stories in English and Ojibwemowin—the Ojibwe Language.

Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak is a partnership between the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and WTIP Community Radio. The series is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


33 Pieces

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In this early-summer themed short feature, Nett Lake elder Karen Drift shares some of things she’s learned about gathering medicines. She talks abo...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2024
  • Length: 09:50
Caption: Erik Redix
Hosted by Erik Redix, Grand Portage Ojibwe Language Coordinator, Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak is a bilingual program featuring first speakers telli...

  • Added: May 25, 2024
  • Length: 04:40
Caption: Erik Redix
Program host Erik Redix visited with Obizaan–Lee Staples, a Mille Lacs elder and monolingual/first speaker of Anishinaabemowin. In this short story...

  • Added: May 25, 2024
  • Length: 04:29
Caption: Erik Redix
Maajigwaneyaash-Dr. Gordon Jourdain, tells the origin of the Ojibwe name for Lac la Croix, his home community. He also shares a story about early s...

  • Added: May 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:34
Caption: Erik Redix
Maajigwaneyaash-Dr. Gordon Jourdain, explains why humor is a key part of Ojibwe life and the storytelling tradition. He includes some wisdom about ...

  • Added: May 25, 2024
  • Length: 08:50
Caption: Erik Redix
Maajigwaneyaash-Dr. Gordon Jourdain, recalls the days of deep snow and extreme temperatures at Lac La Croix First Nations when he was a child. We l...

  • Added: May 25, 2024
  • Length: 05:53
Caption: Erik Redix
Maajigwaneyaash–Dr. Gordon Jourdain, shares cultural teachings about Ojibwe words for the color and taste spectrum, which have different prefixes a...

  • Added: May 25, 2024
  • Length: 06:27
Caption: Erik Redix
In this short story from Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak, Maajigwayneyaash–Dr. Gordon Jourdain, describes how his grandmother would keep time by follo...

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 05:30
Caption: Erik Redix
In this bi-lingual Ojibwe language program, Erik Redix talks with Maajigwaneyaash, Dr. Gordon Jourdain, who shares the fate of the Lac la Croix pon...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2023
  • Length: 27:00
Caption: Erik Redix
Maajigwaneyaash–Dr. Gordon Jourdain, grew up at Lac La Croix First Nations and is a first speaker of Ojibwemowin. In this episode Maajigwaneyaash s...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 27:00
Caption: Submitted
Hosted by Erik Redix, Grand Portage Ojibwe Language Coordinator, Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak is a bilingual program featuring first speakers telli...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Erik Redix
Program host Erik Redix recently visited with Obizaan–Lee Staples, a Mille Lacs elder and monolingual/first speaker of Anishinaabemowin.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Erik Redix
Maajigwaneyaash–Dr. Gordon Jourdain talks with Erik Redix about humor and laughter as a part of storytelling, going to sugarbush with his mom at La...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Erik Redix talks with Nancy Jones, Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nations elder and language teacher. She talks about the spiritual power of women, fi...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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In Episode 18, Erik Redix talks with Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nations elder and first speaker Nancy Jones.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Photo by Staci Drouillard for WTIP Radio, 2022.
It’s Episode 17 with professor and author Anton Treuer, Ojibwe Language Instructor at Bemidji State University.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Photo by Staci Drouillard for WTIP Radio, 2022.
What is the current state of Ojibwe Language revitalization? In Episode 16 of Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak, host Erik Redix discusses this question...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:43
Caption: Erik Redix
We’re once again joined by Maajigwaneyaash, Dr. Gordon Jourdain. In this episode, Dr. Jourdain talks about seasonal traditions like harvesting mano...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:37
Caption: Erik Redix
In Episode 14 of Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak, we welcome Maajigwaneyaash, Dr. Gordon Jourdain.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 27:00
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Karen Drift is a Nett Lake elder and first language speaker of Ojibwemowin. She talks to program host Erik Redix about the Ojibwe naming ceremony a...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:30