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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The 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 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 ReadingPublished with permission from the Brattleboro Historical Society. In 1828 the Brattleboro publishing company of Holbrook and Fessenden produced “A […]
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 ReadingThe following article re-contextualizes the 17th century narrative of Hannah Dustin’s kidnapping and how she escaped by killing and scalping […]
Continue ReadingThe United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday, 13 September […]
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 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 ReadingAbstract Abenaki is a common generic term for the Native American Indian peoples of northern New England, southeastern Canada, and […]
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 ReadingAbstract The October 4, 1759 attack on St. Francis is recognized as an important event in American history, but most […]
Continue ReadingAbstract The area around Keene, New Hampshire was originally known to the Abenaki Indian people as Ashuelot. Although the name […]
Continue ReadingAbstract The tribal name Abenaki is adapted from the original Wôbanakiak, a noun that combines the morphemes for dawn or […]
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