This guide is meant to deepen the experiential learning for students participating during the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association’s performances at Flynn Perofrming Arts Center on December 17th and 18th, 2019. Links to Indigenous peoples, Vermont history and land, traditions and…
Continue ReadingAfter four Abenaki tribes received recognition from the state of Vermont their citizens were finally able to self identify themselves and educate the public about their history. This study guide introduces students to the concept of Abenaki erasure in history…
Continue ReadingLacrosse, Little Brother of War, or The Spirit Game…No matter what you call it, the game require the players to have great skill and demonstrate physical prowess. Babaskwahomwôgan:The Spirit Game brings together a collection of traditional and modern Lacrosse sticks,…
Continue ReadingThis booklet was developed to share the diverse cultural history of the Koas Meadows region and the local Koasek Abenaki people. It is designed in such a way that both educators and parents alike can use it to stimulate discussion…
Continue ReadingIn 1609, Samuel de Champlain came to the lake that now bears his name. He encountered a rich culture in the Native Americans he met, a diverse wildlife and botany in the New World, and set into motion a legacy…
Continue ReadingKwai Nedobak! Nd’elewizi Vera Longtoe Sheehan du Elnu Wôbanaki – that translates into English as: Hello my friends! My name is Vera Longtoe Sheehan, and I’m a citizen of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe. I’m here to honor the countless generations…
Continue ReadingFor hundreds of years the Western Abenaki a Native American nation in what is now Vermont New Hampshire, used designs and patterns made of beads – wampum- instead of writing. They used the beads for decoration and to tell stories, send…
Continue ReadingThe Vermont Abenaki Artists Association embodies the history, culture, and art of the Abenaki people. Our mission is to promote regional Indigenous arts, artists, culture, and to provide an organized central place to share creative ideas. We accomplish this…
Continue ReadingOriginally developed as an interpretive guide for the Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage exhibit, this study guide as been adapted to be an introduction to Abenaki history and culture after four Abenaki tribes received recognition in the state of Vermont. Author(s):…
Continue ReadingAt Lake Between examines the July 1609 expedition of explorer Samuel de Champlain to the lake that now bears his name, focusing on Indigenous spiritual, cultural, and military customs. Professor Wiseman gives us an alternative view of the first European…
Continue ReadingThe Abenaki, part of the Indians of North America series, explores the lives of these native tribes that have lived for thousands of years in northern New England. Although their first contact with Europeans was peaceful, relations eventually soured as…
Continue ReadingIn this feature-length documentary from Alanis Obomsawin, the filmmaker returns to the village where she was raised to craft a lyrical account of her own people. After decades of tirelessly recording others’ stories, she focuses this film on her own.–…
Continue ReadingReclaiming the Ancestors sets the record straight about the early history of the Wabanaki – the Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Malecite, and Mi’kmaq. Wiseman proposes a sovereigntist approach to understanding the current archaeological understanding of Abenaki prehistory. He begins with an…
Continue Reading“[My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the Abenaki community. The second strand is our history and that of our relatives, written down by European, Native American, and…
Continue ReadingDawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England’s Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology includes both classic and contemporary literary works from ten New England indigenous nations: the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Mohegan, Narragansett, Nipmuc,…
Continue ReadingThis guide provides information and instructional materials on the history and culture of the Wabanakis of Maine and the Maritime Provinces (Canada). The Wabanakis include the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, Micmac, and Abenaki peoples. The curriculum was designed for grades 4-8…
Continue ReadingAbstract The term Wôbanakiak includes many culturally related groups of Native peoples who were the original inhabitants of present-day Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, parts of Massachusetts, parts of southern Canada, and the Maritimes. Wôbanakiak means “people of the east” or…
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. – Video description by Vince Franke, Peregrine Productions, LLC. Vimeo. 2019. Producer:…
Continue ReadingCreated to help preserve these stories for Abenaki and other people. While the core content of these stories belong to the Abenaki People, each story teller provides their own unique interpretation. With stories by Chief Don Stevens, Chief Roger Longtoe…
Continue ReadingFrom the YouTube channel of the “Year of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas” Cultural Initiative, a program of SUNY Empire State College. For this new virtual residency curriculum, a series of videos has been created with indigenous culture keepers sharing…
Continue ReadingBefore European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake Champlain and Connecticut River valleys. This history of their coexistence and conflicts with whites on the northern New England…
Continue ReadingReviews An extraordinarily fine book about the entire time range of Native American presence in Vermont . . . Those interested in studying Northeastern Indians (past and present) and the Vermont Abenaki themselves should be delighted with this publication.– “American…
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