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Educational graphic showing four watercolor landscape panels detailing New England landforms: Meadow, Mountains and Hills, Ponds and Wetlands, and Lakes.

Environmental Changes in N’dakinna

461 words, 3 minutes read time. The following article provides additional interpretation for the special exhibition “Deep Roots, Strong Branches.” ...
Featured image titled Summary of 12,000 years of Abenaki History: Part 1, showing a snow-covered forest river with ice formations under bright sunlight.

Summary of 12,000 years of Abenaki History: Part1

756 words, 5 minutes read time. By Vera Longtoe Sheehan Downloadable timeline poster available at the bottom of the page ...
Geographic Features Across N'Dakinna

Geographic Features Across N’Dakinna

360 words, 2 minutes read time. Photo detail above from New England Land Forms poster, Abenaki Arts & Education Center.Download ...
Reclaiming the Word “Squaw” in the Name of the Ancestors

Reclaiming the Word “Squaw” in the Name of the Ancestors

Reposted from Marge Bruchac, Reclaiming the Word “Squaw” in the Name of the Ancestors, H-Net Online, December 1, 1999. Kwai ...
Map of Abenaki territory

The Not so Invisible Border   

The article was originally published on March 26, 2022 and is republished here with permission from the author Jeanne Morningstar ...
Historic Society Explains Abenaki Erasure Myth

Historic Society Explains Abenaki Erasure Myth

Published with permission from the Brattleboro Historical Society. Screenshot of the original post. The image of the Abenaki man and ...
Sugaring in Wabanahkik (Land of the Dawn): An Abenaki History of Maple

Sugaring in Wabanahkik (Land of the Dawn): An Abenaki History of Maple

By Alexander Cotnoir As spring temperatures begin to climb across Vermont’s forested landscape, the annual arrival of “sugaring season” - ...
The Myth of Native American Extinction Harms Everyone

The Myth of Native American Extinction Harms Everyone

By Mali Obomsawin Cluelessness about Native people is rampant in New England, which romanticizes its Colonial heritage. In college, I ...
Abenaki Perspective – Hannah Duston

Abenaki Perspective – Hannah Duston

The following article re-contextualizes the 17th century narrative of Hannah Dustin's kidnapping and how she escaped by killing and scalping ...