STUDY GUIDES

Downloadable Abenaki Study Guides/Activity Booklets

Divided into general grade levels

  K through Grade 2

Grades 3, 4 and 5

Grades 6, 7 and 8

NIKWÔBI: An Accompanying Study Guide for Abenaki Performances

High School and Beyond

The Connections That Bind Us: The Colonial World of the Northeast by Melody Walker Brook

 Writing and Discussion Prompts for The Connections that Bind Us:  The Colonial World of the Northeast by Melody Walker Brook

 Bibliography

More Resources



ABENAKI ARTS & EDUCATION TEAM

(listed alphabetically)

Melody Walker is an Academic Advisor at American Public University and an Adjunct Professor at Norther Virginia Community College, former Adjunct Professor at Champlain College. She formerly taught the Abenakis and Their Neighbors and Abenaki Spirituality at Johnson State College. She served two terms on the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs.  Additionally, she is a traditional beadworker and finger weaver.

Liz Charlebois is an Abenaki culture bearer. She is a powwow dancer,  traditional bead worker, ash basket maker, bitten birch bark artist. She has served two terms on the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affair and  is the former Education Specialist at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner, NH 

Francine Poitras Jones retired from a thirty-year career in marketing and copy editing to pursue a second career as a substitute elementary school teacher. For the past five years, she has been teaching grades K through 5th grade, and she presents educational programs to elementary students. Additionally, she is a painter that finds inspiration in her culture and everything around her.

Lina Longtoe is an environmental scientist and Fulbright Scholarship alumna. She has received academic international awards and scholarships while her research has received presidential praise. She holds several Project Wild certifications, a program which is sponsored nationally by the EPA and Fish and Wildlife Department. Lina has served her Abenaki community for over a decade, as the official documentarian of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe, VAAA volunteer, and intern, and now as the Program Coordinator for VAAA.

Vera Longtoe Sheehan has a background in Museum Studies and Native American Studies. She has been developing and implementing educational programs and consultation with museums, schools, and historic sites for over twenty-five years. As the Director of the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, she leads the education team in the development of study guides and educational programs. Additionally, she also has training in Wilson reading program. The focus of Vera's art is in traditional clothing and twined woven plant fiber bags.