Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak

Episode 28 is with Nancy Jones, elder from Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nations. She shares cultural teachings in Ojibwemowin and English about "new" rice and the wild rice harvest. She also talks about Northern Lights, and traditional ways of thinking about the aurora.

For this next episode our conversation continues with Ogimaawigwanebiik–Nancy Jones, from Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nations. She shares her understanding of traditions and teachings related to preparing medicines, pipe offerings and some of the things we can learn from our animal teachers. Stories include the reason dogs howl, when certain animals visit and teachings about Thunderbirds.

Episode 26 is a conversation with Ogimaawigwanebiik, Nancy Jones. A renowned elder and Ojbwemowin first speaker from Nigigoonsiminikaaning, Ogimaawigwanebiik shares teachings about being a drum keeper, pow wow traditions and women’s teachings. Includes a bonus story about hunting for different types of wild game and winter life in the bush, on the trapline.

Episode 25 is a question and answer session with Ogimaawigwanebiik, Nancy Jones. A renowned elder and Ojbwemowin first speaker, Ogimaawigwanebiik answers questions about everyday life at Nigigoonsiminikaaning Nation in Northwestern Ontario. Topics include children, significant colors, animal signs related to someone’s passing and teachings about teasing animals and giving thanks.

In this bi-lingual Ojibwe language program Erik Redix talks with Maajigwaneyaash, Dr. Gordon Jourdain, who shares the fate of the Lac la Croix ponies and tells the story of his father’s horse logging operation. We also get a lesson about physics words as well as Dr. Jourdain’s thoughts on language preservation.

Maajigwaneyaash–Dr. Gordon Jourdain, grew up at Lac La Croix First Nations and is a first speaker of Ojibwemowin. In this episode Maajigwaneyaash speaks with Erik Redix about the Anishinaabe history of what is now Quetico Provincial Park and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. He also talks about going hunting for bine–partridge, when he was a young boy at Lac La Croix.

Hosted by Erik Redix, Grand Portage Ojibwe Language Coordinator, Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak is a bilingual program featuring first speakers telling stories in Ojibwemowin and English. Erik’s guests for Episode 22 are Obizaan–Lee Staples, a Mille Lacs elder and his assistant Chato Gonzales. Obizaan shares teachings about gichichagonan–the spirit within, and why going to ceremony and learning and speaking Ojibwemowin is so important for Anishinaabe people.

In Episode 21 program host Erik Redix recently visited with Obizaan–Lee Staples, a Mille Lacs elder and monolingual/first speaker of Anishinaabemowin. In this episode Obizaan’s apprentice Chato Gonzales translates what Obizaan has to say about teaching respect for all things–our elders, the animals, trees, the water–and how he believes that these cultural beliefs about teaching and learning respect relate to the National problem of gun violence and mass shootings.

Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak is a partnership between the Grand Portage Ojibwe and WTIP Community Radio. 

Maajigwaneyaash–Dr. Gordon Jourdain talks with Erik Redix about humor and laughter as a part of storytelling, going to sugarbush with his mom at Lac La Croix and the Ojibwe name for Lac La Croix which is Negwaakwaan zaaga’iganing. He also explains the Ojibwe origins of the name Atikokan, a town in Ontario, Canada.

Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak is a partnership between the Grand Portage Ojibwe and WTIP Community Radio. 

Erik Redix talks with Nancy Jones, Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nations elder and language teacher. She talks about the spiritual power of women, finding Eagle feathers and why the Cedar tree is significant for Ojibwe families.

Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak is produced by WTIP Community Radio, in partnership with the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe.