The following material is excerpted from an exhibition that was on view at the Bethel Historical Society from July 2004 through May 2007. This exhibit tells the story of Molly Ockett, an Abenaki Indian of the Pigwacket tribe whose lifetime (ca.…
Continue ReadingThis volume highlights the work of the late Gordon M. Day, renowned for his groundbreaking research on the history and culture of the Western Abenakis and their Indian neighbors. Where previous historians had tended to portray northern New England as…
Continue ReadingThe Abenaki, part of the Indians of North America series, explores the lives of these native tribes that have lived for thousands of years in northern New England. Although their first contact with Europeans was peaceful, relations eventually soured as…
Continue ReadingIn this feature-length documentary from Alanis Obomsawin, the filmmaker returns to the village where she was raised to craft a lyrical account of her own people. After decades of tirelessly recording others’ stories, she focuses this film on her own.–…
Continue ReadingAbstract The October 4, 1759 attack on St. Francis is recognized as an important event in American history, but most people only know the fictional version. The movie “Northwest Passage” portrays half naked savages, living in tipis and pounding on…
Continue ReadingBefore European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake Champlain and Connecticut River valleys. This history of their coexistence and conflicts with whites on the northern New England…
Continue ReadingReviews An extraordinarily fine book about the entire time range of Native American presence in Vermont . . . Those interested in studying Northeastern Indians (past and present) and the Vermont Abenaki themselves should be delighted with this publication.– “American…
Continue ReadingAbstract The tribal name Abenaki is adapted from the original Wôbanakiak, a noun that combines the morphemes for dawn or white light (wôban), and land (-aki) with an animate plural ending to indicate the people who dwell in that place…
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