What is the Abenaki relationship to plants growing alongside Lake Champlain? How do Abenaki tribes today continue to practice this relationship, and how do they cope with invasive species that are taking over the Lake Champlain Basin? This curriculum will…
Continue ReadingNebizun is the Abenaki word for medicine and the root word Nebi is the Abenaki word for water. The rivers and tributaries of N’Dakinna (our homeland) were our highways for traveling and the water itself is important to the species…
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…
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