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March 20, 2023 SmartEgg2 Post in Teacher Tool Box,Uncategorized

Water is Life Teach-In

In this all-day workshop, Abenaki Arts & Education Center educators will inspire teachers with interactive, media-rich content that links 12,000 years of Abenaki history with 21st-century civic engagement. Participants will pursue a deeper understanding of the region’s diversity through the voices of the American Abenaki people.

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January 1, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Curriculum,Study Guides,Teacher Tool Box,Uncategorized

The Colonial World of the Northeast

In order to understand Alnobak people, currently known as the Western Abenaki, we must understand the people around them and […]

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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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November 20, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Curriculum,Study Guides,Uncategorized

NIKWÔBI: Abenaki Performance Guide

This guide is meant to deepen the experiential learning for students participating during the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association's performances at  Flynn Performing Arts Center on December 17th and 18th, 2019.

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September 8, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Curriculum,Study Guides

Celebrating Abenaki Culture

After four Abenaki tribes received recognition from the state of Vermont their citizens were finally able to self identify themselves […]

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Men playing lacrosse in a village.

July 20, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Exhibitions

Babaskwahomwôgan: The Spirit Game

Lacrosse, Little Brother of War, or The Spirit Game…No matter what you call it, the game requires the players to […]

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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 Curriculum,Uncategorized

Navigating the Champlain Valley 1609: Quadricentennial

In 1609, Samuel de Champlain came to the lake that now bears his name. He encountered a rich culture in […]

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July 5, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Uncategorized

Vera Longtoe Sheehan for Women’s Heritage Month: Molly Ockett

Kwai Nedobak! Nd’elewizi Vera Longtoe Sheehan du Elnu Wôbanaki – that translates into English as: Hello my friends! My name […]

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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 1, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Abenaki Tribes and Organizations,Art,Uncategorized

Vermont Abenaki Artists Association

The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association embodies the history, culture, and art of the Abenaki people.  Our mission is to promote […]

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June 30, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Curriculum,Study Guides

Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage

Originally developed as an interpretive guide for the Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage exhibit, this study guide as been adapted to […]

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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 29, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Uncategorized

Waban-Aki: People From Where The Sun Rises

In this feature-length documentary from Alanis Obomsawin, the filmmaker returns to the village where she was raised to craft a […]

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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 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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Chief Don Stevens standing in front of Lake Champlain

June 12, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Media

The Odzihozo and Champ Story

Chief 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.

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June 12, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Media

Nebi, Abenaki Ways of Knowing Water

Created to help preserve these stories for Abenaki and other people. While the core content of these stories belong to […]

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June 12, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Media

Elnu Abenaki Sagmo Roger Longtoe Sheehan on Sacred Sites in Vermont

From the YouTube channel of the “Year of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas” Cultural Initiative, a program of SUNY Empire […]

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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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