Larry Aitken on Traditional Knowledge

Published 2017-08-09
Larry Aitken is an Ojibwe / Anishinaabe traditional knowledge keeper from Leech Lake, MN. Videography by David McDonald. Edited and produced by Timothy B. Powell

All Comments (8)
  • @12pharro
    The best professor I had in college. So bummed to hear his spirit left his body in October 2018 :(. Wonderful man. He once told us in class that he had a lead foot and loved going fast, he also said he drove a Buick. 3 years later I was headed back to Duluth from bemidji, and there was a car coming up on my tail really fast! As it passed me, I noticed the driver was Larry. Boy he wasn't kidding about driving fast .
  • @anangoons
    Gichi miigwech for recording and posting all of these wonderful videos! As an anishinaabe who wasn't raised with the traditions and lives a few hours away from my grandparents and the tribe we belong to, these kinds of things and the knowledge you're imparting is so important and invaluable in my pursuit to reconnect with my heritage and our anishinaabe traditions and worldview while physically separated from the community at the moment. I'm lucky to live in a time where I'm able to listen to you and all the others on this channel and learn from you, although I can't be there physically. I'm lucky I have ways to start learning the language without access to a teacher at the moment. Nimiigwechiwendam. Really thank you so much for putting this knowledge and these words out. They're reaching us young ones, I promise!
  • @charlesleblanc6638
    This man speaks more truth and wisdom, then many of the so called "smart people" humans listen to as being important and meaningful !
  • "O siyo" Most of we keepers of knowledge have passed on to the great spirit in the sky". The tribes history of star people Grand Canyon city which the halfway creatures has not be told. The Sabe, Mothman, thunderbird, goatman, wolfman, mermaids, little forest people, the giants, the gargoyles, the giant eel snake, star people. All of the current generations think they are legends, myths, stories, poems. When history is entwined with this it is to confuse the people's. They are returning. I'm 91y old. I'm Song of Mockingbird. History drawings on hides, clay tablets, yes clay, was taken by the government and soldiers. When the tribes were put on reservations. When you have an encounter with these creatures in the future. Remember what this old Cherokee/ Osage told you. Earth shift started as Mayan s told . Everything will become as mythology with technology combined.