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Boozhoo! Ojibwe-speaking puppets hit the airwaves

Puppeteer Michael Lyons teaches language and culture mixed with comedy

Heidi Holton remembers the day Ojibwe puppeteer Michael Lyons called in to the radio station where she worked.

She’d been following his puppets, Nanaboozhoo and Natasha, on YouTube, and commenting about their use of the Ojibwe language and culture.

“He said, ‘How about ‘Boozhoo Nanaboozhoo’ on the radio?’” she recalls. She stopped a moment to think.

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