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Growing Up Ojibwe on the Leech Lake Reservation in the 1950s
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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Growing up Ojibwe on the Leech Lake Reservation in the 1950s: Margaret Treuer’s story read by her son, Anton, from his new book, “Ojibwe In Minneso...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and WTIP


  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 3
Ojibwe Leader Hole-In-The-Day
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Local historian, Barry Babcock, tells the story of how the young Ojibwe leader, Hole-In-The-Day, intervenes to save the Schoolcraft expedition in 1...

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 13:54
Ojibwe Life Today
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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Dr. Anton Treuer has a new book on the history of the Ojibwe in Minnesota. It’s published by the MN Historical Society Press. Treuer is Professor...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
To Diné - Santa Fe Indian School
From: Littleglobe
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A poem by three students from the Santa Fe Indian School's Spoken Word team -- Santana Shorty, Clara Natonabah, and Nolan Eskeets -- about understa...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:38
Language, Education and the Survival of Native People
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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The connection between language, education and the survival of native people.

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KVSC, and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 3
Ojibwe Culture Today
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, Anton Treuer, profiles the members of the Pipestone Drum Group.

Bought by WGZS, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KVSC, and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 4
Gender Roles in Native Culture
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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Dr. Anton Treuer, Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University. Treuer is the author of “Ojibwe In Minnesota”, a new book published by the Min...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 12, 2010
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 2
Nigaane Students Go To The Sugarbush
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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Students, teachers and parents in the Nigaane (NEE gah nay) Ojibwe language immersion program at the Bug O Nay Ge Shig School in Bena recently spen...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 3
Building Police--and Nations--in Micronesia
From: Amanda Loder
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As the US government has found in Iraq and Afghanistan, an essential part of nation-building is creating a strong, well-trained police force that c...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 20:00
Three Musicians in Communion With Each Other
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Native flute master R. Carlos Nakai, luthier and guitarist William Eaton, and world percussionist Will Clipman return with an album of intuitive im...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
Virginia Indians: The Nonexistant
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2009
  • Length: 15:16
Legends: Star Stories
From: Native Voice One
Series: Legends
Caption: Elbert TwoPonies
"Star Stories" is the second episode in the Legends storytelling series.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KRZA, KMUD, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 14
What's the Word? "Voices from the Ojibwe Nation"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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Three members of Ojibwe communities, which reach from Michigan to Montana in the United States and from Quebec to Saskatchewan in Canada, share the...

Bought by KZYX, KKWE Niijii Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
What's the Word? "American Indian and Alaska-Native Tribal Traditions"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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A celebration of American Indian and Alaska-Native tribal traditions

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 27
Why We Sing the Blues
From: Teresa Goff
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On a Monday night at The Yale Hotel in Vancouver, Aboriginal singers Pat Gambler, Helene Duguay and Derek Miller gather to sing the blues and descr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Termination of the Klamath Tribes
From: KLCC
Caption: Spring Creek, near Chiloquin, Oregon
The piece is an audio postcard (only brief reporter narration) that tells the story of the termination of the Klamath Tribes by the federal governm...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
Encounters Mosquito
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
Series: Encounters
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The summer drone of doom.... the mighty mosquito has a long history in the north country.

Bought by KCHU, KTRT RADIO INC, KDUR, KMXT, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 8
Father Returns To Mexico; Should Son Follow?
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Youth Radio's Luis Sierra describes his father's decision to return to Mexico after decades in the United States because of the economic crisis.

Bought by Vocalo.org and WMNF


  • Added: Jun 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 2
The Settlement
From: Bruce Burnside
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Voices of past and present residents of an Ojibwe mixed blood community, near Lake Superior, tell of their survival for six generations in a valley...

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Mar 13, 2009
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Wolf Toth: Trail of the Whispering Giants
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Peter Wolf Toth of Edgewater, Florida has spent more than thirty years carving giant statues of Indians across America.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 28:52
Something To Keep
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two Native American women try to convince their tribe to hold on to their traditions.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 3
Algonquian Tribes in New York
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Caption: American Indians in New York State, Credit: This special Roundtable series is funded by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, conclusions, or reccomendations do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment fo
Our Senior Producer, Andy Clegg speaks with Steve Comer about Algonquian tribes in New York.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 07:47
Introduction: Native Language and Tradition
From: Victoria Ambuhl
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The Berlitz Language Center at the Oneida Reservation in Oneida, NY hosts a discussion on efforts to reverse the decline in use of Native Oneida la...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 07:30
How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
Coming Home: the Return of the Alutiiq Masks
From: Native Voice One
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A one-hour radio documentary about the cultural resurgance taking place in Kodiak, Alaska.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, KSFR, WRIR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 23

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