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April 30, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles,Ethnocide, Eugenics, & Erasure,Uncategorized

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 […]

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April 5, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles,Ethnocide, Eugenics, & Erasure,Uncategorized

Diary of an Accused Pretendian

Since I was small, the Missisquoi River helped to raise me. I heard stories of our sacred places and lived […]

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March 22, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles,Ethnocide, Eugenics, & Erasure,Uncategorized

Navigating Partnerships with Indigenous People in a Time of Ethnic Fraud Panic

The 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…

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January 20, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles,Ethnocide, Eugenics, & Erasure,Uncategorized

Historic Society Explains Abenaki Erasure Myth

Published with permission from the Brattleboro Historical Society. In 1828 the Brattleboro publishing company of Holbrook and Fessenden produced “A […]

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May 2, 2021 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

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” – […]

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February 7, 2021 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles,Uncategorized

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 […]

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July 6, 2020 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles,Uncategorized

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 […]

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November 20, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles,Books,Uncategorized

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday, 13 September […]

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July 23, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles Leave a Comment on Famous Abenakis

Famous Abenakis

Today, we identify famous people as people we see in movies or on television. This list digs deep into Abenaki […]

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This is a painting is representative of the journet of Molly Ockett's life as she traveled from one community to another.

July 23, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Molly Ockett & Her World

The following material is excerpted from an exhibition that was on view at the Bethel Historical Society from July 2004 through […]

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July 3, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

History in Beads

For hundreds of years the Western Abenaki a Native American nation in what is now Vermont New Hampshire, used designs and […]

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July 3, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Chasing Seeds: The Story of Vermont’s Forgotten Abenaki Food System

THE HOPE IS THAT EVERY VERMONT school child has heard of the Abenaki Indians, and many have probably heard of […]

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June 26, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Malian’s Song – Linguistic Notes and Ethnographic Terms for Abenakis

Abstract Abenaki is a common generic term for the Native American Indian peoples of northern New England, southeastern Canada, and […]

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June 19, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Abenaki Connections to 1704: The Sadoques Family and Deerfield

Abstract about this article is not available. This essay was published as a chapter in the book In Captive Histories: […]

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June 19, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Wôbanaki Lifeways – Circa 1600

Abstract The term Wôbanakiak includes many culturally related groups of Native peoples who were the original inhabitants of present-day Maine, […]

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June 14, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Reading Abenaki Traditions and European Records of Rogers’ Raid

Abstract The October 4, 1759 attack on St. Francis is recognized as an important event in American history, but most […]

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June 12, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Abenakis at Ashuelot: The Sadoques Family and Keene

Abstract The area around Keene, New Hampshire was originally known to the Abenaki Indian people as Ashuelot. Although the name […]

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May 1, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Malian’s Song – Abenaki Language Glossary

Abstract The tribal name Abenaki is adapted from the original Wôbanakiak, a noun that combines the morphemes for dawn or […]

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The Abenaki Arts & Education Center is excited to announce the Water is Life Abenaki Teach-In on March 25, in…

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17th Century Abenaki Girl

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Download This coloring sheet depicts an Abenaki girl wearing pre-contact style leather clothing. She is using a corn pounder to…

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Native American Heritage Month Writing Prompt

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Download this writing prompt to get your students thinking about Native American Heritage Month! In 1990, the United States passed…

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