Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People

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Caption: Aurora Storm, Credit: Travis Novitsky
Image by: Travis Novitsky 
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"Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People" is a radio series by WTIP North Shore Community Radio, exploring the many facets of Ojibwe life. As part of the series you will hear the words and stories of Anishinaabe people, including artists, poets, doctors, scientists, elders and children.

"Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People" is an original series produced by Staci Lola Drouillard. Staci is a descendent of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa who lives in her hometown of Grand Marais, Minnesota. Music for the series is by Minnesota Ojibwe artist, Keith Secola.

"Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People" is a radio series that explores the many facets of Ojibwe life. As part of the series you will hear the words and stories of Anishinaabe people, including artists, poets, doctors, scientists, elders and children.


54 Pieces

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Caption: Dancing Sky Over the Spirit Tree, Credit: Travis Novitsky
“People celebrate their homelands in different ways.” For photographer Travis Novitsky, this means spending a lot of time out of doors with a camer...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Rick Defoe and Family, Credit: Kelly Schoenfelder
In this edition of "Anishinaabe Way," Staci Lola Drouillard with WTIP North Shore Community Radio speaks with Fond du Lac elder Rick DeFoe. DeFoe g...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
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Anna Deschampe and Alan Aubid are the parents of two young sons. They live on the Grand Portage Reservation in northern Minnesota. In this edition ...

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  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 09:33
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Al Hunter is a citizen of the Anishinaabe Nation within Treaty 3 and a proud member of the Caribou Clan. His poetry has been widely published in jo...

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  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
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Caption: Bumps by Jim Denomie
In this edition of "Anishinaabe Way," Staci Lola Drouillard with WTIP North Shore Community Radio speaks with Lac Courte Oreilles Anishinaabe artis...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
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Caption: Milt Powell, Credit: Staci Drouillard
This segment of WTIP's ongoing series "Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words, and Stories of Ojibwe People" features Milt Powell of the Saganaga Lake Powel...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 06:57
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Caption: John & Patrick Pierre, Credit: Staci Drouillard
Brothers John and Patrick Pierre have served as Grand Portage Royalty for the last three and four years. WTIP North Shore Community Radio producer ...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 04:45
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Caption: Wendy Quade
Wendy Quade has taught Anishinaabemowin and American History at Cloquet Senior High School for ten years. In this edition of "Anishinaabe Way: Live...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 06:01
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Caption: Susan Zimmerman
Susan Zimmerman is a Grand Portage band member who spent her early childhood on Hungry Jack Lake. She is an avid hunter, fisherwoman, and wild ric...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Travis Payer at Sugarbush in Spring
Travis Payer is Nebraska Ho Chunk and Bad River Ojibwe. He has lived in the Minneapolis St. Paul area his whole life and has been a Minneapolis Fir...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:05
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Caption: Thunder Bay Art Gallery Curatorial Resident Suzanne Morrissette with Carl Beam's "Exorcism."
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is currently hosting a retrospective of the work of Anishinaabe artist Carl Beam. In this edition of "Anishinaabe Way: ...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Angela Swedberg Vamps
Me'tis artist Christi Belcourt lives near Manitoulin Island, Ontario. She creates intricate paintings inspired by the traditional beading process a...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:52
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Johnson Loud Jr. is a potter, a painter, and an Episcopal Priest who has served his parish at Prairie Island, Minnesota for 15 years. He is from th...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 09:11
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Caption: Czarina Crow
Czarina Crow is an Anishinaabe high school student in northeastern Minnesota and she writes original poetry. In this edition of WTIP's ongoing seri...

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  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 05:51
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Milt Powell grew up on the Canadian side of Saganaga Lake in Ontario where he lived with his family on what was once known as "Powell's Bay". In t...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:16
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Caption: Tom Jack
Tom Jack is an Anishinaabe language and culture teacher in Cook County, Minnesota, originally from Lake of the Woods in Ontario. In this feature, h...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:55
  • Purchases: 6
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According to the Anishinaabe Migration Story, the People would know their home where they found the place where food grows on water. This is how th...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 5