Native American Heritage Month Writing Prompt
Download this writing prompt to get your students thinking about Native American Heritage Month! In 1990, the United States passed […]
Continue ReadingInterview with Trudy Ann Parker
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 ReadingHistoric Society Explains Abenaki Erasure Myth
Published with permission from the Brattleboro Historical Society. In 1828 the Brattleboro publishing company of Holbrook and Fessenden produced “A […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingSugaring 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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Celebrating Abenaki Culture
After four Abenaki tribes received recognition from the state of Vermont their citizens were finally able to self identify themselves […]
Continue ReadingFamous Abenakis
Today, we identify famous people as people we see in movies or on television. This list digs deep into Abenaki […]
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Molly Ockett & Her World
The following material is excerpted from an exhibition that was on view at the Bethel Historical Society from July 2004 through […]
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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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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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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 […]
Continue ReadingHistory 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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Vermont Abenaki Artists Associations
The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association embodies the history, culture, and art of the Abenaki people. Our mission is to promote […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
Continue ReadingWôbanaki Lifeways – Circa 1600
Abstract The term Wôbanakiak includes many culturally related groups of Native peoples who were the original inhabitants of present-day Maine, […]
Continue ReadingReading Abenaki Traditions and European Records of Rogers’ Raid
Abstract The October 4, 1759 attack on St. Francis is recognized as an important event in American history, but most […]
Continue ReadingAbenakis at Ashuelot: The Sadoques Family and Keene
Abstract The area around Keene, New Hampshire was originally known to the Abenaki Indian people as Ashuelot. Although the name […]
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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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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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Malian’s Song
In the words of a young Abenaki girl, Malian’s Song tells the true story of the deliberate English attack by […]
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