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.


25 Pieces

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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
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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
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
Caption: Erik Redix
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
Caption: Erik Redix
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
Caption: Photo of Karen Drift with Red Willow, from video by Erik Redix.
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
Caption: Photo of Karen Drift with Red Willow, from video by Erik Redix.
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
Caption: Erik Redix
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
Caption: Erik Redix
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
Caption: Erik Redix
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
Caption: Erik Redix
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