Ernest Oberholtzer himself began to work with the Minnesota Historical Society during his lifetime, and hours of oral histories were captured from the man so many called “storyteller” or in the Ojibwe language, “Atisokan.”  By the mid-1980s, the Foundation in his name began to organize reams of correspondence toward wilderness policy work, and a long lifetime of ideas and letters between Ober and his many friends.  All of that is now held on reels of microfilm at the Minnesota History Center Gale Library in St. Paul.  In addition, the MNHS holds video, prints, glass slides, and the colored slides, with many images now digitized.  The Foundation is working toward better ways of sharing this archival legacy held in part by the Oberholtzer Foundation and in part by the MNHS.  This is a collegial working relationship, and the archives are bottomless.