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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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November 22, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Activity Sheet,Allyship,Uncategorized

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 […]

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September 17, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Interview,Media,Uncategorized

Interview 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…

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January 20, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles,Ethnocide, Eugenics, & Erasure,Uncategorized

Historic 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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January 1, 2022 SmartEgg2 Post in Books,Uncategorized

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 […]

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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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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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July 23, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles Leave a Comment on Famous Abenakis

Famous 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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This is a painting is representative of the journet of Molly Ockett's life as she traveled from one community to another.

July 23, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

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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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 4, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Books

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 […]

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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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June 14, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Reading 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 […]

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June 12, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Articles

Abenakis 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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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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June 5, 2019 SmartEgg2 Post in Children’s Literature

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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