Larry Aitken audio recordings

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Chippewa | English
1980-1990
Aitken, Larry | Jackson, Jim | Boyd, Raining
Folklore | Health | Minnesota--History | Psychology | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Sound recording
Interviews | Speeches | Stories
27 audiocassettes (21 hr., 27 min.)
This collection consists of audio recordings of Larry Aitken (Bezhigoogahbow), a distinguished Ojibwe elder, teacher, and traditional knowledge keeper of Leech Lake, Minnesota. The recordings include numerous public speeches, classroom lectures and discussions, and interviews on Anishinaabe spiritual teachings, health, psychology, cultural strength, history, and language. A number of recordings were made with Aitken's teacher, Jim Jackson, a medicine man and traditional knowledge keeper with whom Aitken worked for 17 years.
Larry Aitken audio recordings Mss.SMs.Coll.135