Vermont Abenaki Artists Association
Honoring Abenaki history, culture, and art since 2013.
Is Vermont being lobbied for Nuremberg Laws?
Race-based attacks and harmful stereotypes are putting Vermont’s Abenaki communities in jeopardy, and it needs to stop. This week is Abenaki Recognition and Heritage Week, yet international special-interest groups are threatening state-recognized Abenaki tribes with cultural erasure in an effort to position themselves for recognition and rights within the United States.
Race-based attacks and harmful stereotypes are putting Vermont’s Abenaki communities in jeopardy and it needs to stop. This week is Abenaki Recognition and Heritage Week, yet international special-interest groups are threatening state-recognized Abenaki tribes with cultural erasure in an effort to position themselves for recognition and rights within the United States.
Using their Canadian status as recognized First Nations, Odanak and Wôlinak in Quebec are using state and federally-funded universities and media organizations to promote their propaganda — threatening to rewrite 12,000 years of Native heritage in the Abenaki homelands now known as the State of Vermont.
Click here to read the full article in the Brattleboro Reformer
Chief Don Stevens is an award-winning leader, businessman, writer, and lecturer. He has been featured in magazines, books, TV shows, and documentaries. He was appointed to the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs by Governor Douglas in 2006 for two terms, where he served as Chair and led the fight to obtain legal recognition for the Abenaki People in Vermont. Chief Stevens was able to acquire tribal land for the Nulhegan Tribe which had been absent for over 200 years. A gifted storyteller, he speaks about issues of Native American Sovereignty, Racial Disparity, and Abenaki Identity.
He was appointed by the Attorney General to the “Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems Advisory Panel” and serves on the Lake Champlain Sea Grant Advisory Panel and Vermont State Police Fairness and Diversity Advisory Panel.
Shelburne VT 04582
Email: [email protected]
Exhibits
2017 – 2018
Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage. Traveling Exhibit. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.
2014
Traditional Sources, Contemporary Visions – Invitational Group Art Exhibit. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT
Events and Performances
2013 – 2018
Native American Heritage Weekend, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
Nulheganaki, Island Pond, VT
2012
Native American Heritage Weekend, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT
Nulheganaki, Island Pond, VT
2011
Native American Heritage Weekend, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT
Speaking To The Ancestors Abenaki Gathering. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, VT
2010
Native American Heritage Weekend, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT
Winter Celebration. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, VT
2009
Vermont Indigenous Celebration. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, VT
Affiliations
Vermont Abenaki Artists Association
