Every year the Abenaki Heritage Weekend offers opportunities for in promtu activities for the public to interact with the Abenaki community. Lina Longtoe of Askawobi Production captured a couple of these encounters.
Aaron Wood teaches two young people learn how to pound an ash log to produce ash splints for basket making.
Everyone gathers for a Round Dance
Abenaki Heritage Weekend at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Saturday, June 24 – 10:00am to 5pm
Ongoing Activities
10:30 – Greeting Song and Opening remarks (Pine Grove)
11:00 – Enjoy ongoing activities
11:30 – Children’s Gourd Rattle making workshop. Space is limited to first come first served (on the Green near cooking demonstration)
12:00 – My Grandfather Was Right: a $50,000 Lesson in Ethnoscience,
Lina Longtoe, (Auditorium in Gateway)
1:00 – Storytelling drum music and dancing, Chief Don Stevens and the Nulhegan Abenaki Drum Group (on the Green)
2:00 – The Light Behind Our Eyes – A Perspective On Abenaki Identity,
Melody Walker-Brook (Auditorium in Gateway)
3:00 – Bryan Blanchette, Contemporary Native American Music (on the Green)
4:00 – Gallery Talk about the special exhibit Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage (Stone Schoolhouse)
Sunday, June 25 – 10:00am to 5:00pm
Ongoing Activities until 3:00pm
10:30 – Greeting Song and Opening remarks (Pine Grove)
11:00 – Storytelling drum music and dancing, Chief Don Stevens and the Nulhegan Abenaki Drum Group (on the Green)
11:30 – Enjoy ongoing activities
1:00 – Storytelling drum music and dancing, Chief Don Stevens and the Nulhegan Abenaki Drum Group (on the Green)
2:00 – Decolonizing Native American Art Marketplace, Vera Longtoe Sheehan (Auditorium in Gateway)
3:00 – Enjoy ongoing activities
4:00 – Walking With Our Sisters (Film) (Auditorium in Gateway
| Art Demonstrations in the Native American Arts Marketplace (In the Boat Shed)
Ash Basketry with Kerry Royce Wood Porcupine Quillwork with Jim Taylor Twined Bag Making with Vera Longtoe Sheehan Wampum weaving with Linda Longtoe Sheehan |