Teaching Through Art Creation: An Interview with Francine Poitras Jones – Part 2

By Faith Wood. Middlebury College. Class of 2024
Native Presence and Performance (First Year Seminar Course)

In spring 2021, Vera Longtoe Sheehan (Elnu Abenaki) met with the students of “Native Presence and Performance: Reclaiming the Indigenous Narrative,” a first-year seminar offered by Middlebury College. After the meeting, Longtoe Sheehan recommended the students interview and write about VAAA affiliated artists. This blog post is one of a series that were created for that project, respectfully submitted by a student who self-identifies as non-Native.

_{Due to the length of this narrative, it is being introduced in three parts over a period of three weeks. This is the second part.}

Though so much of Francine Poitras Jones