Koasek 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 ReadingClick here to open the image and print it The artwork on this coloring sheet was created by Francine Poitras […]
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 ReadingAs a kid, Shirly Hook learned how to lasso a rooster, ride a heifer, and turn a steamer trunk into […]
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 ReadingKwai Nedobak! Nd’elewizi Vera Longtoe Sheehan du Elnu Wôbanaki – that translates into English as: Hello my friends! My name […]
Continue ReadingIn this feature-length documentary from Alanis Obomsawin, the filmmaker returns to the village where she was raised to craft a […]
Continue ReadingIn the words of a young Abenaki girl, Malian’s Song tells the true story of the deliberate English attack by […]
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