Aaniin · Boozhoo · Binesi ndizhnikaaz · I am Binesi.
I'm launching a seven song EP across 2026, one song for each of the Seven Grandfather Teachings. New songs are rolling out now, with more on the way.
Come follow the journey ↓
2026 EP Release Roadmap
Seven songs. Seven teachings.
Tracks will light up as they arrive, through Indigenous History Month and across the rest of 2026.
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Binesi’s National Radio Debut on CBC
Courage made its national radio debut on CBC’s Reclaimed, in DJ Kookum’s Indigenous Dance Party, the episode that kicked off National Indigenous History Month. She dropped it as the fourth song in the set, mixing in and out of it beautifully between tracks by Drives the Common Man and Mato Wayuhi. The lineup is stacked with artists I love: Aysanabee, Sebastian Gaskin, LOV, Tia Wood, Natasha Fisher, and so many more stars in the Indigenous music industry.
Instrumental available free for language revitalization
Humility (Thank You, Miigwetch) is a song of gratitude, sung in English and Anishinaabemowin, naming the land, the water, the wind, the fire, and all our relations. It’s free to teach, adapt, and perform, and offered to any Indigenous language program for revitalization under Creative Commons, non-commercially. If your program works in another Indigenous language, you’re warmly welcome to use the instrumental, and if you sing it, I’d love to know.
About Binesi
Binesi is a musician, artist, and entrepreneur rooted in his culture. He is Anishinaabe (Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation) and Métis on his father's side, English and Ukrainian on his mother's, born and raised in Treaty 1 territory and now living on Lekwungen Territory (Victoria, BC).
His sound blends pop, R&B, and hip-hop into something uplifting and his own, built from synths and electronic drums with lyrics rooted in Indigenous values. The same Seven Grandfather Teachings that shape this EP guide his work off-stage, where he leads an Indigenous technology company. Music is one more way he brings culture and technology together.