Article by Rich Holshuh. Originally published by Atowi Project, February 9, 2021. https://www.atowi.org/blog/a-map-of-new-england-being-the-first-that-ever-was-here-cut?utm_source=chatgpt.com The upper right corner of the self-proclaimed […]
Continue ReadingThis first essay appeared online in the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum blog on March 25, 2020, and it was published in Sokoki […]
Continue Reading“The center of the Abenaki experience is not ourselves, it is each other…” For the Abenaki, the Seven Generations are […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the State of Vermont’s apology to the families who were harmed by the State sanctioned Eugenic movement, the Legislatures […]
Continue ReadingWe are proud to be a partner in the development of the American Abenaki Curriculum: A Journey of History and […]
Continue ReadingImmerse yourself in the richness of Abenaki culture and its continuity through music, history, archaeology, weaving, social justice matters, heirloom […]
Continue ReadingThis workshop provides the audience the opportunity to examine samples of twined weaving and learn how it connects to the […]
Continue ReadingDancing Blue Wolf will drum and share songs with the audience, inviting them to join her in singing. She will […]
Continue ReadingA commentary in the Brattleboro Reformer, published Feb. 22, 2026 A media blitz by two foreign nations – the Canadian-recognized […]
Continue Reading309 words, 2 minutes read time. Dark Academy Adventures, Episode 1: The Adventure of the Bentwood Boxes Join the Heritage […]
Continue ReadingDownload activity sheet below Teacher Overview Designed for early Learners (K-2), this beautifully illustrated activity sheet describes the connections between […]
Continue ReadingTeacher Overview: This poster shows different types of homes that Abenaki have used over time. Illustrations include a temporary lean-to […]
Continue ReadingView and Download Poster Below This beautifully illustrated poster contains water color images highlighting various New England Landforms types such […]
Continue Reading872 words, 6 minutes read time. From the Caledonian Record, Nov 24, 2025. 11/24/2025 Caledonian Record Letter to the editor […]
Continue ReadingADAPTABLE FOR ALL AGES Looking for a fun way to teach your children or students about natural resources and Abenaki […]
Continue ReadingTeacher Overview Designed for elementary and middle school students, this activity can serve as a conversation starter or anchor activity […]
Continue Reading756 words, 5 minutes read time. By Vera Longtoe Sheehan Downloadable timeline poster available at the bottom of the page […]
Continue ReadingGrades 3–12 | Social Studies, History, Science Downloadable poster available at the bottom of the page This visual timeline, created […]
Continue ReadingIllustrated poster of the Seeds of Renewal 2013 harvest of traditional Abenaki crops (corn, beans, and squash). Produced by Frederick […]
Continue Reading“An Evening with the Vermont Abenaki” was held to educate and engage with new lawmakers about the state’s Tribal Recognition process and hear from scholars, community members, and allies.
Continue ReadingThe Vermont Truth & Reconciliation Commission presents: a panel of experts come together to discuss the experiences and harm that […]
Continue ReadingThe Abenaki people have called the land we now know as Vermont and New Hampshire home for over 13,000 years. […]
Continue ReadingOn June 29-30 citizens of the American Abenaki community will gather at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes, Vermont to […]
Continue ReadingJoin Prof. Frederick Matthew Wiseman on the Heritage Hunt as he uses vintage Dark Academy science, deduction, and technology to […]
Continue ReadingPress release and handouts below the video. PRESS RELEASE: Burlington, Vermont/Politon, Kdakinna (April 23, 2024) — The four Vermont state-recognized […]
Continue ReadingThese days, many people are learning about ethnic fraud on social media, which makes it challenging to distinguish genuine fraud from the many Indigenous people who are routinely harassed about their “authenticity.”
Continue ReadingTitle: Abenaki History in Vermont Publisher: YouTube Producer: Stuck in Vermont Year: 2019
Continue ReadingImmerse yourself in the richness of Abenaki culture and its continuity through music, history, archaeology, weaving, social justice matters, heirloom […]
Continue ReadingReposted from Marge Bruchac, Reclaiming the Word “Squaw” in the Name of the Ancestors, H-Net Online, December 1, 1999. Kwai […]
Continue ReadingElevate your organization’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through our professional development opportunity. It is designed to empower […]
Continue ReadingAvailable to be booked for your teachers. Join us for an immersive exploration of Abenaki culture led by scholars, historians, […]
Continue ReadingIn this video, the VT Legislature explains eugenics history and how Abenaki families were impacted. The State of Vermont voted […]
Continue ReadingVermont recently announced the three commissioners of its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a group tasked with examining issues of racism, discrimination, and eugenics in state laws and policies, both historically and today.
Continue ReadingLong-awaited opportunity to move forward after 500+ years of cultural annihilation. On March 30, 2023, a joint statement from Roman Catholic Church leaders formally acknowledged and took accountability for “the terrible effects” of more than 560 years of assimilation policies and the resulting “pain experienced by indigenous people.”
Continue ReadingIn this all-day workshop, Abenaki Arts & Education Center educators will inspire teachers with interactive, media-rich content that links 12,000 years of Abenaki history with 21st-century civic engagement. Participants will pursue a deeper understanding of the region’s diversity through the voices of the American Abenaki people.
Continue ReadingColoring sheet depicting an Abenaki girl wearing pre-contact style leather clothing. She is using a corn pounder to grind corn into a fine meal.
Continue ReadingThis toolkit introduces educators to platforms and apps for presenting virtual programs.
Continue ReadingDownload this writing prompt to get your students thinking about Native American Heritage Month! In 1990, the United States passed […]
Continue ReadingThis gourd tells two traditional Wabanaki stories. Listen to the artist Jeanne Morningstar Kent tell the stories of Gluscape Fights the Water Serpent and How Woodpecker Got His Red Head.
Continue ReadingAlnôbaiwi ‘In the Abenaki Way’A 501c-3 non-profit dedicated to preserving Vermont Abenaki cultural heritage.
Continue ReadingStatement Regarding UVM and EugenicsE. Thomas Sullivan, PresidentJune 21, 2019 As we close this academic year, I wish to refer […]
Continue ReadingKoasek Abenaki Elder Trudy Ann Parker, the author of Aunt Sarah: Woman of the Dawn, discusses Abenaki spirituality, medicine, and how Native life was affected by the great dying and colonization. She goes on to describe the Last Rise of Chief Passaconaway and reads the epilogue of Aunt…
Continue ReadingNebizun: Water Is Life brings together artwork by Abenaki artists of the Champlain Valley and Connecticut River Valley regions to illustrate the Abenaki relationship to water, our awareness of water as a fundamental element necessary for all life, and our concern that pollution of water can change our…
Continue ReadingOutdoor education is placed-based work that relies on land-based knowledge which often borrows from Native American survival and cultural craft […]
Continue ReadingFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 6, 2022 – We, the four Vermont state recognized Abenaki tribes, stand together in affirmation of […]
Continue ReadingThe article was originally published on March 26, 2022 and is republished here with permission from the author Jeanne Morningstar […]
Continue ReadingSince I was small, the Missisquoi River helped to raise me. I heard stories of our sacred places and lived […]
Continue ReadingAtowi Project is an Elnu Abenaki community initiative to affirm Native relationships to the Land and its inhabitants, raise Indigenous voices, and foster inclusion with understanding, in place.
Continue ReadingThe goal of the Abenaki Trails project is to visibly honor and share a more inclusive history of the Abenaki people, to highlight historical Abenaki sites and to accentuate the positive influences we have had with Colonial America and the towns we continue to live in today.
Continue ReadingThe Vermont House of Representatives voted unanimously to approve an official apology for Vermont's role in the eugenics movement of the 1930s. During this 2 hour House session, representative Tom Stevens explains the Vermont Eugenics Survey which tracked families to see it they were "defective" or "deviant." Groups…
Continue ReadingThe process of getting to know Native people can be especially complicated in New England, which has some of the longest colonial histories on the continent. Since most eastern tribal nations historically dealt with the colonies rather than with what eventually became the U.S. federal government, many remain…
Continue ReadingThere have been some concerns regarding claims that certain Abenaki individuals, families and communities in Vermont, New Hampshire and neighboring […]
Continue ReadingThe 2021 Virtual Abenaki Heritage Weekend presents “Abenaki Basket Makers” featuring Sherry Gould of the Nulhegan Abenaki Heritage Preservation Department. […]
Continue ReadingThis bill exempts all property owned by Native American tribes or owned by nonprofit organization organized for the benefit of those tribes from statewide education property tax and municipal property tax.
Continue ReadingPublished with permission from the Brattleboro Historical Society. In 1828 the Brattleboro publishing company of Holbrook and Fessenden produced “A […]
Continue ReadingAlmost 13,000 years ago, small groups of Paleoindians endured frigid winters on the edge of a river in what would […]
Continue ReadingIn order to understand Alnobak people, currently known as the Western Abenaki, we must understand the people around them and […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been more than 400 years since the first Thanksgiving, and there is a lot we are still learning about […]
Continue ReadingIn honor of Native American Heritage we collaborated with our friends at Abenaki Trails Project to create this booklet of […]
Continue ReadingAnimal Names Match-up Activity Sheet Directions: Draw a line from the animal and Abenaki name to its track and English […]
Continue ReadingThis image depicts and Abenaki man and women wearing 18th century clothing made from trade cloth. The artwork on this […]
Continue ReadingBy Alexander Cotnoir As spring temperatures begin to climb across Vermont’s forested landscape, the annual arrival of “sugaring season” – […]
Continue ReadingBy Mali Obomsawin Cluelessness about Native people is rampant in New England, which romanticizes its Colonial heritage. In college, I […]
Continue ReadingIn this video we interview with Trudy Ann Parker, author of Aunt Sarah Woman Of The Dawnland. Although written as a novel, Trudy brings a story to life which she says is about her Abenaki family.
Continue ReadingThe Indigenous Abenaki people of the Northeast have, for generations, been subjected to both genocidal attacks (killing of people) and ethnocidal attacks (killing of culture) by colonial settlers and their descendants. In the colonial era, these threats took the form of murderous attacks on families and villages in…
Continue ReadingThis course was a collaborative effort between the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association and UVM’s Lake Champlain Sea Grant program. What […]
Continue ReadingGrades: 6th – 8th and higherSubjects: Environmental impacts, habitats, Natural resources, ecosystems, competition for resources, carrying capacity, geography, habitat fragmentation, […]
Continue ReadingGRADES:3rd – 5th grade and higher SUBJECTS:Natural resources, ecosystems, competition for resources, carrying capacity, globalization, social studies, and global citizenship. […]
Continue ReadingThe following article re-contextualizes the 17th century narrative of Hannah Dustin’s kidnapping and how she escaped by killing and scalping […]
Continue ReadingThis video was created for a lesson plan that Lina Longtoe Schulmeisters created for the Lake Champlain Sea Grant program, […]
Continue ReadingThis video was created for a lesson plan Lina Longtoe Schulmeisters created for the Lake Champlain Sea Grant program, as […]
Continue ReadingBREAKING News – H.880 “An act relating to Abenaki place names on State park signs” was unanimously passed in the […]
Continue ReadingWritten by Brian Chenevert and illustrated by Francine Poitras Jones The Abenaki language is one of many indigenous languages in […]
Continue ReadingThis dictionary was created through a partnership between the Circle of Courage and the Endangered Alphabets Project. It is intended […]
Continue ReadingThe United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday, 13 September […]
Continue ReadingThis guide is meant to deepen the experiential learning for students participating during the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association's performances at Flynn Performing Arts Center on December 17th and 18th, 2019.
Continue ReadingPublished with permission of the author Frederick M. Wiseman, Ph.D. Series: Seeds of Renewal Title: Wabanaki Squashes and Pumpkins Publisher: […]
Continue ReadingCourtesy of Frederick M. Wiseman Series: Seeds of Renewal Title: Wabanaki Beans Publisher: Haven Project Year: 2014
Continue ReadingPublished with permission of the author Frederick M. Wiseman, Ph.D. Series: Seeds of Renewal Title: Wabanaki Corn Varieties Publisher: Haven […]
Continue ReadingPublished with permission of the author Frederick M. Wiseman, Ph.D. Series: Seeds of RenewalTitle: Indigenous Crops of the NortheastPublisher: Haven […]
Continue ReadingThe result of a three year state-led collaborative effort, the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies […]
Continue ReadingNational Council for the Social Studies first published national curriculum standards in 1994. Since then, the social studies standards have […]
Continue ReadingThe Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (“the standards”) […]
Continue ReadingAs a kid, Shirly Hook learned how to lasso a rooster, ride a heifer, and turn a steamer trunk into […]
Continue ReadingAfter four Abenaki tribes received recognition from the state of Vermont their citizens were finally able to self identify themselves […]
Continue ReadingToday, we identify famous people as people we see in movies or on television. This list digs deep into Abenaki […]
Continue ReadingImage Credit: Molly Ockett painting by Danna Brown Nickerson Courtesy of Bethel Historical Society. The following material is excerpted from […]
Continue ReadingFort Necessity National Battlefield, U. S. National Park Service site approached the Elnu Abenaki Tribe with the idea of developing […]
Continue ReadingAlnôbak is the Abenaki word for human beings so the exhibit title actually means People: Wearing Our Heritage. This traveling […]
Continue ReadingExhibition curated by Vera Longtoe Sheehan Header artwork: by Francine Poitras Jones Curatorial Statement Nebizun is the Abenaki word for […]
Continue ReadingThis booklet was developed to share the diverse cultural history of the Koas Meadows region and the local Koasek Abenaki […]
Continue ReadingIn 1609, Samuel de Champlain came to the lake that now bears his name. He encountered a rich culture in […]
Continue Reading“Eugenics — the study of human racial progress through selective breeding — frequently invokes images of social engineering, virulent racism, […]
Continue ReadingKwai Nedobak! Nd’elewizi Vera Longtoe Sheehan du Elnu Wôbanaki – that translates into English as: Hello my friends! My name […]
Continue ReadingThis volume highlights the work of the late Gordon M. Day, renowned for his groundbreaking research on the history and […]
Continue ReadingThe National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Native Knowledge 360° Essential Understandings about American Indians is a framework that […]
Continue ReadingThe Western Abenaki language, Aln8ba8dwaw8gan (Language Code: Abe), is listed as “critically endangered” by UNESCO. For those interested in learning […]
Continue ReadingA comprehensive review of the unexpectedly elegant culture of the people who greeted Champlain and other explorers along the St. […]
Continue ReadingSaxso is fourteen when the British attack his village. It’s 1759, and war is raging in the northeast between the […]
Continue ReadingThere is a growing effort to bring history back into focus and to correct many misconceptions about the relationship of […]
Continue ReadingFor hundreds of years the Western Abenaki a Native American nation in what is now Vermont New Hampshire, used designs and […]
Continue ReadingTHE HOPE IS THAT EVERY VERMONT school child has heard of the Abenaki Indians, and many have probably heard of […]
Continue ReadingThis month on Brave Little State, VPR’s people-powered journalism podcast, a question about the descendants of this region’s first residents. […]
Continue ReadingFor young Samuel Russell, the summer of 1777 is a time of fear. The British Army is approaching, and the […]
Continue ReadingFrom the vantage point of the colonized, the term “research” is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which […]
Continue ReadingThe Vermont Abenaki Artists Association embodies the history, culture, and art of the Abenaki people. Our mission is to promote […]
Continue ReadingDescription: This booklet is a study guide built around the Alnôbak: Wearing Our Heritage traveling exhibit. It introduces students to […]
Continue ReadingAt Lake Between examines the July 1609 expedition of explorer Samuel de Champlain to the lake that now bears his […]
Continue ReadingThe Abenaki, part of the Indians of North America series, explores the lives of these native tribes that have lived […]
Continue ReadingWABANAAGIG, Land of the Rising Sun goes beyond words to encapsulate the strong emotions of the Wabanaki, a people who […]
Continue ReadingIn this feature-length documentary from Alanis Obomsawin, the filmmaker returns to the village where she was raised to craft a […]
Continue ReadingReclaiming the Ancestors sets the record straight about the early history of the Wabanaki – the Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Malecite, […]
Continue Reading“[My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the […]
Continue ReadingThese traditional and modern tales of the raccoon Azban, trickster of the Western Abenaki people, provided timeless lessons for all […]
Continue ReadingDawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England’s Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology […]
Continue Reading“Promise to remember me!” was all the beautiful woman had ever said to the hunter. She had appeared from nowhere […]
Continue ReadingThis guide provides information and instructional materials on the history and culture of the Wabanakis of Maine and the Maritime […]
Continue ReadingAbstract Abenaki is a common generic term for the Native American Indian peoples of northern New England, southeastern Canada, and […]
Continue ReadingThis book brings back to life one of the stories of how the game of lacrosse originated in Northern New […]
Continue ReadingThe mission of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation is to strengthen our government; to build our community, […]
Continue ReadingThe Koasek Abenaki is an autonomous band of Abenaki families of what is now called the Western Abenaki Tribes, which […]
Continue ReadingElnu is an Abenaki Tribe based in Southern Vermont. We work to continue our cultural heritage through historical research, lectures […]
Continue ReadingThe Sovereign Republic of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi has seven elected Tribal Council Members. The Missisquoi Abenaki Tribal Council acts as […]
Continue ReadingWe, the Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation, trace the origin of our tribe back over 180 years. […]
Continue ReadingAbstract about this article is not available. This essay was published as a chapter in the book In Captive Histories: […]
Continue ReadingAbstract The term Wôbanakiak includes many culturally related groups of Native peoples who were the original inhabitants of present-day Maine, […]
Continue ReadingMelody Walker Brook gives an incredibly powerful and touching insight into rebirth of the Abenaki Elnu tribe. Finding pride in […]
Continue ReadingPublisher: StorybyStory Retrieved: YouTube Year: 2011
Continue ReadingContemporary music composed in the Abenaki language by Bryan Blanchette. Artist(s): Black Hawk Singers Year: 2016 Label: CD Baby Run […]
Continue ReadingAbstract The October 4, 1759 attack on St. Francis is recognized as an important event in American history, but most […]
Continue ReadingChief Don Stevens tells the story of how the spirit being Odzihozo create himself from nothing and then went on to create Bitawbwa (Lake Champlain) and the Champ.
Continue ReadingCreated to help preserve these stories for Abenaki and other people. While the core content of these stories belong to […]
Continue ReadingFilmed in night vision at the Jamaica State Park during an archeological dig. The El-Nu Abenaki Tribe Singers led the […]
Continue ReadingFrom the YouTube channel of the “Year of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas” Cultural Initiative, a program of SUNY Empire […]
Continue ReadingAbstract The area around Keene, New Hampshire was originally known to the Abenaki Indian people as Ashuelot. Although the name […]
Continue ReadingBefore European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the […]
Continue ReadingReviews An extraordinarily fine book about the entire time range of Native American presence in Vermont . . . Those […]
Continue ReadingIn the Abenaki laguage Wskintow8gonal wji Aln8mbac means “New Songs for the Abenaki.” – CD description, Wskintow8gonal wji Aln8mbac by […]
Continue ReadingIn the words of a young Abenaki girl, Malian’s Song tells the true story of the deliberate English attack by […]
Continue ReadingAbstract The tribal name Abenaki is adapted from the original Wôbanakiak, a noun that combines the morphemes for dawn or […]
Continue ReadingA novel and a people you will never forget. The story of 108 winters of an Abenaki healing women written […]
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