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.
Continue ReadingDownload this writing prompt to get your students thinking about Native American Heritage Month! In 1990, the United States passed […]
Continue ReadingKoasek 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 ReadingPublished with permission from the Brattleboro Historical Society. In 1828 the Brattleboro publishing company of Holbrook and Fessenden produced “A […]
Continue ReadingAlmost 13,000 years ago, small groups of Paleoindians endured frigid winters on the edge of a river in what would […]
Continue ReadingIn order to understand Alnobak people, currently known as the Western Abenaki, we must understand the people around them and […]
Continue ReadingBy Alexander Cotnoir As spring temperatures begin to climb across Vermont’s forested landscape, the annual arrival of “sugaring season” – […]
Continue ReadingAfter four Abenaki tribes received recognition from the state of Vermont their citizens were finally able to self identify themselves […]
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 ReadingThis booklet was developed to share the diverse cultural history of the Koas Meadows region and the local Koasek Abenaki […]
Continue ReadingIn 1609, Samuel de Champlain came to the lake that now bears his name. He encountered a rich culture in […]
Continue ReadingThis volume highlights the work of the late Gordon M. Day, renowned for his groundbreaking research on the history and […]
Continue ReadingFor hundreds of years the Western Abenaki a Native American nation in what is now Vermont New Hampshire, used designs and […]
Continue ReadingThe Vermont Abenaki Artists Association embodies the history, culture, and art of the Abenaki people. Our mission is to promote […]
Continue ReadingOriginally developed as an interpretive guide for the Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage exhibit, this study guide as been adapted to […]
Continue ReadingAt Lake Between examines the July 1609 expedition of explorer Samuel de Champlain to the lake that now bears his […]
Continue ReadingThe Abenaki, part of the Indians of North America series, explores the lives of these native tribes that have lived […]
Continue ReadingIn this feature-length documentary from Alanis Obomsawin, the filmmaker returns to the village where she was raised to craft a […]
Continue ReadingReclaiming the Ancestors sets the record straight about the early history of the Wabanaki – the Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Malecite, […]
Continue Reading“[My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the […]
Continue ReadingDawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England’s Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology […]
Continue ReadingThis guide provides information and instructional materials on the history and culture of the Wabanakis of Maine and the Maritime […]
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 ReadingBefore European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the […]
Continue ReadingReviews An extraordinarily fine book about the entire time range of Native American presence in Vermont . . . Those […]
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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