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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 ReadingThe following material is excerpted from an exhibition that was on view at the Bethel Historical Society from July 2004 through […]
Continue ReadingLacrosse, Little Brother of War, or The Spirit Game…No matter what you call it, the game requires the players to […]
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 ReadingOriginally developed as an interpretive guide for the Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage exhibit, this study guide as been adapted 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 ReadingElnu is an Abenaki Tribe based in Southern Vermont. We work to continue our cultural heritage through historical research, lectures […]
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 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 ReadingA traditional Abenaki tale, told in English and Western Abenaki by father and son Joe and Jesse Bruchac. www.JosephBruchac.com From […]
Continue ReadingArtist(s): Black Hawk Singers Year: 2016 Label: CD Baby Run Time: 44 minutes ASIN: B009TT3AG4 View
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 […]
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