Vance Banzo performs at the Gchi Dewin Festival. Photo Credit: Robert Snache Award winning actor and comedian Vance Banzo shared a pile of laughs at the Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival co-presented this past winter co-presented by MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM. Banzo is a band membe...
Co-presented by MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM, Stephanie Pangowish, Anishnaabekwe (Ah-nish-nah-beh-kway) from Wiikwemkoong on Manitoulin Island busted a few guts at the 5th Annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival in Wasauksing First Nation and Parry Sound, Ontario this past winter. F...
Back at the beginning of winter biboon, MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM co-presented the well-attended 5th Annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival in Wasauksing First Nation (Lighting the 7th Fire at the Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytelling Festival) and Parry Sound, Ontario. Over the ne...
Elements from the Heart Silk Scarf | Image source: Jamie Okuma “Giwiiwaabamin – I am going to see you” ~ Miskwaanakwad Rice is Anishinaabe from Wasauksing First Nation, an island along the shores of Mnido Gamii in Anishinaabe Akiing. Like many Anishinaabek his age, Miskwaanakwad learne...
Visions by Bart Meekis | Image source: wahsa.mb.ca “Niwaabania – I see him/her” ~ Miskwaanakwad Rice is Anishinaabe from Wasauksing First Nation, an island along the shores of Mnido Gamii in Anishinaabe Akiing. Like many Anishinaabek his age, Miskwaanakwad learned a small bit of Anishi...
With the help of his friend Jiizas and some spectacular sound effects, Musky teaches us (giinwan) must know phrases in Anishinaabemowin. Miskwaanakwad Rice is Anishinaabe from Wasauksing First Nation, an island along the shores of Mnido Gamii in Anishinaabe Akiing. Like many Anishinaabek his age, Miskwa...
Miskwaanakwad Rice is Anishinaabe from Wasauksing First Nation, an island along the shores of Mnido Gamii in Anishinaabe Akiing. Like many Anishinaabek his age, Miskwaanakwad learned a small bit of Anishinaabemowin growing up and in recent years he has sought to learn more of the language in order to he...
Nemo Hádéést’íí | Image source: www.navajonationmuseum.org Leading up to the June release of Disney/Pixar’s Finding Dory, the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz., recently released its year-long project dubbing Finding Nemo in the Navajo language. A unique partnership with one of the countr...
Melina Laboucan-Massimo, member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation, discusses the impacts of the Tar Sands project on her family and her traditional territories. Melina shares about the significance of the land for her and the roots of her strength and knowledge. Melina points out that the Tar Sands is a...
