Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio

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  • Call Letters: KBFT
  • Frequency: 89.9 FM
  • Networks: AMPERS

Our call sign is going to be KBFT and you all can tune into our programming at 89.9 MHz on the FM dial. KBFT is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast at 1000 Watts (1kW) with our antenna located atop the Nett Lake water tower in the village of Nett Lake, MN. Our studios are located in the Nett Lake School campus building. KBFT is owned and operated by the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa.

Series

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Anishinaabe Storytelling event features stories and knowledge told my guests that are traditionally told during the winter time.

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93 Pieces

Anishinaabe Word of The Day 2021 with Karen Drift

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214 Pieces

Karen Drift speaks many words and phrases in Anishinaabe and English.

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Grand Portage Ojibwe Billy Blackwell has ties and shares language dialect and stories of Nett Lake MN. Background music provided by the Native American Rock Band from Nett Lake, War Bonnet.

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This is an hour long broadcast of Bois Forte elder Karen Drift sharing her knowledge of the Anishinaabe language and culture.

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9 Pieces

Anishinabe storytelling, a program that conveys teachings of the Anishinabe culture as told in the oral tradition of the people of the Bois Forte communities.

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182 Pieces

Karen Drift shares Anishinabemoen with the Word of the Day.

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451 Pieces

Bois Forte Band members share Anishinabemoen with Words and Phrases of the Day.

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419 Pieces

Harvey Thompson shares Anishinabemoen with Words and Phrases of the Day.

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KBFT 89.9 FM Bois Forte Tribal Radio and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund present: Bois Forte 90 Bois Forte Ojibwe History in 90 seconds.


Latest Pieces

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Jane describes the house, in sugarbush, as 'one big room'. Jane recalls her grandmother had a way of making things work out, from putting up a clo...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:46
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Anthony Nichols interviews Jane Villebrun about the history of Nett Lake. Jane begins with her recollections of being born in the village of Nett ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:43
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Leah feels that her job is that of a mediator in helping to work with tribes and returning sacred objects to those Tribes. Leah shares that some p...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:22
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Leah works for the Minnesota Historical Society as 'NAGPRA Coordinator'. Leah shares some history of 'The Crane Lake Cache' which is currently bei...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:42
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Bill Latady shares some of his historical knowledge regarding the activities of the people which lived in the northern Minnesota area until the ear...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 08:03
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Bill Latady is the curator for the Bois Forte Heritage Museum. Bill shares some of the history and the Treaty of 1854. In 1881 there was a Presid...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 03:35
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Jim gawboy shares a little about who he is and where he is from. Jim has lived in the Vermilion area for about the last 25 years. Jim shares that...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 07:12
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Billy continues with his stories about what he was told about Nett Lake. He talks about how the people used to have to be more self reliant on the...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:55
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Billy talks about how the Anishinabe came from the east many, many years ago. The Anishinabe were given dreams of wild rice which guided them east...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:08
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Donald Chosa tells about the Lac La Croix ponies that used to be in this area and how the ponies almost became extinct. The Bois Forte people used...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
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