Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak
Series produced by WTIP

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.
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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
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
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
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
In Episode 18, Erik Redix talks with Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nations elder and first speaker Nancy Jones.
- Added: Feb 17, 2023
- Length: 28:31
It’s Episode 17 with professor and author Anton Treuer, Ojibwe Language Instructor at Bemidji State University.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 28:31
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
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
In Episode 14 of Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak, we welcome Maajigwaneyaash, Dr. Gordon Jourdain.
- Added: Nov 11, 2022
- Length: 27:00
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
Manoominike da! Let’s go ricing! In this segment, Erik speaks with Nett Lake elder Karen Drift and her grandson Perry, about the ricing tradition.
- Added: Nov 11, 2022
- Length: 29:08
Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak is a monthly program hosted by Grand Portage Ojibwe Language Coordinator Erik Redix. WTIP producer Staci Drouillard in...
- Added: Nov 11, 2022
- Length: 56:28
We continue the conversation with Karen Drift, elder from Nett Lake and life-long Ojibwe language teacher and learner. In this episode she explains...
- Added: Jun 17, 2022
- Length: 28:30
In Episode 10, Erik Redix speaks with Nett Lake elder Karen Drift, who shares late-winter Naniboujou stories about how birds chose their colors lon...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 26:56
In Episode 9 of Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak, Dr. Gordon Jourdain talks with Erik about preparing for the arrival of a new baby and the cultural si...
- Added: Apr 10, 2022
- Length: 27:50
In Episode 8 of Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak Maajigwaneyaash–Dr. Gordon Jourdain explores the Ojibwe words for colors, remembers winter at Lac la C...
- Added: Apr 10, 2022
- Length: 28:59
In Episode 7, Dr. Gordon Jourdain speaks about his new role at the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School at Lac Courte Oreilles, and abo...
- Added: Apr 10, 2022
- Length: 27:50
Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak is a bilingual program that features Ojibwe first speakers telling stories in Ojibwemowin and English. In Episode 6, D...
- Added: Apr 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
In Episode 5 of Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak, host Erik Redix speaks with Dr. Gordon Jourdain about community differences and similarities and the ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2022
- Length: 29:15
Host Erik Redix continues his conversation with Cook County School Ojibwe Language teacher Martina Wigwas, who is from Gull Bay First Nations, Onta...
- Added: Apr 10, 2022
- Length: 27:00