George Earth at Red Cliff Powwow - 2005

George Earth, an Ojibwe, was born in 1935 and grew up on the White Earth Indian Reservation of Minnesota. The interview was conducted on the Red Cliff Indian Reservation in Wisconsin during their 27th Annual Pow Wow. George and his friend Mary arrived in their Ford pulling a little aqua blue and white trailer. Their summers are usually spent on the Pow Wow Highway throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Canada, South and North Dakota. George is an old and trusted friend who I have known for about 20 years. He was gracious enough to agree to this interview.
It has been a long-term interest of mine to research the sounds of another time within unique cultural contexts. This work is centered in the global efforts of the World Soundscape Project (WSP) to document and archive extinct and endangered sounds from around the world. For information about the project, visit the website of the World Form for Acoustic Ecology at:
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/home/index.html

or the USA chapter at:
http://www.acousticecology.org/asae

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Education

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• Ojibwe
• Culture

[wytewolf800]

I am Thomas Jeffords from the Red Cliff Reservation the last name doesnt sound familiar but I can check into it with the inrollment clerk and let you know if there are anyone with the last name of Church on the Rez.

[jimmy59ca]

I am supposed to have some relatives there, anyone know anyone with last name Church, thanks, Jim Church

[SectorSevenCosplay]

beautiful video of a great man, thank you for sharing! Happy Native American month!

[colopity]

That's deep!

[joniandjay]

Nice video George, your looking pretty good,