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This collection of books is appropriate for adults and high school audiences who are doing research, developing lesson plans, or personal learning. Please note, books written before 2011 may not include some of the Abenaki tribes that are now state recognized in Vermont. Supplement your research by watching films in our video section, listening to podcasts in our Audio section, or reading more recent publications.

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January 1, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Books,Uncategorized

A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History

Almost 13,000 years ago, small groups of Paleoindians endured frigid winters on the edge of a river in what would […]

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January 29, 2020 SmartEgg2 Post in Books,Uncategorized

Abenaki Animals Coloring Book

Written by Brian Chenevert and illustrated by Francine Poitras Jones The  Abenaki language is one of many indigenous languages in […]

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January 29, 2020 SmartEgg2 Post in Books,Uncategorized

N’Dakinna: An Illustrated Abenaki Dictionary for Schools

This dictionary was created through a partnership between the Circle of Courage and the Endangered Alphabets Project. It is intended […]

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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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October 9, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books,Children’s Literature

My Bring Up

As a kid, Shirly Hook learned how to lasso a rooster, ride a heifer, and turn a steamer trunk into […]

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July 8, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

A Brief History: From Koasek Meadows to You Today

This booklet was developed to share the diverse cultural history of the Koas Meadows region and the local Koasek Abenaki […]

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July 5, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books,Ethnocide, Eugenics, & Erasure

Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State (Revisiting New England)

“Eugenics — the study of human racial progress through selective breeding — frequently invokes images of social engineering, virulent racism, […]

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July 4, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

In Search of New England’s Native Past: Selected Essays

This volume highlights the work of the late Gordon M. Day, renowned for his groundbreaking research on the history and […]

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July 4, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

Baseline 1609: Unexpected Elegance of the Indigenous Northeast

A comprehensive review of the unexpectedly elegant culture of the people who greeted Champlain and other explorers along the St. […]

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July 2, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books,Teacher Tool Box

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples*

From the vantage point of the colonized, the term “research” is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which […]

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June 30, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

At Lake Between: The Great Council Fire and the European Discovery of Lake Champlain

At Lake Between examines the July 1609 expedition of explorer Samuel de Champlain to the lake that now bears his […]

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June 30, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

The Abenaki (Indians of North America)

The Abenaki, part of the Indians of North America series, explores the lives of these native tribes that have lived […]

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June 28, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

Reclaiming the Ancestors: Decolonizing a Taken Prehistory of the Far Northeast

Reclaiming the Ancestors sets the record straight about the early history of the Wabanaki – the Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Malecite, […]

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June 28, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation

“[My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the […]

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June 27, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

Dawnland Voices: An Anthology Of Indigenous Writing From New England

Dawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England’s Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology […]

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June 26, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

Wabanakis of Maine and the Maritimes: A resource book about Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, Micmac and Abenaki Indians

This guide provides information and instructional materials on the history and culture of the Wabanakis of Maine and the Maritime […]

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June 12, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600–1800: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People

Before European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the […]

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June 11, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

The Original Vermonters: Native Inhabitants, Past and Present

Reviews An extraordinarily fine book about the entire time range of Native American presence in Vermont . . . Those […]

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April 1, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

Aunt Sarah: Woman of the Dawnland

A novel and a people you will never forget. The story of 108 winters of an Abenaki healing women written […]

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Water is Life Teach-In

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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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