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SUMMARY:Deep Roots\, Strong Branches - Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Deep Roots\, Strong Branches – The American Abenaki \nAbenaki people have lived in N’Dakinna (our Homeland) for more than 12\,000 years. Abenaki culture is a complex network of people\, places\, relationships and ceremonies that links the people with the living land. \nLocated in the Museum’s Schoolhouse Gallery\, this exhibit presents artwork and stories by the American Abenaki people. The museum is open daily from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Admission is free. \n  \n \nVermont Abenaki Artists Association is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Cultural Sustainability program\, made possible by the Wallace Foundation.\n  \n 
URL:https://abenakiart.org/event/deep-roots-strong-branches-exhibit/
LOCATION:Lake Champlain Maritime Museum\, 4472 Basin Harbor Road\, Vergennes\, VT\, 05491\, United States
CATEGORIES:Abenaki,Abenaki History,Art Exhibit,Deep Roots,Deep Roots Strong Branches,Healing & Resilience,Native American History,Strong Branches,Uncategorized
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SUMMARY:Nebizun: Water is Life Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Nebizun (alternately spelled Nebizon) is the Abenaki word for medicine and the root word Nebi is the Abenaki word for water. The rivers and tributaries of N’Dakinna (our homeland) were our highways for traveling and the water itself is important to the species of fish and other wildlife that is necessary to our way of life. As stewards of the environment Native American people know the importance of having clean water. The Abenaki people know and understand the importance of water in everyday activities related to foodways and healing powers of water. Nebizun: Water is Life draws its inspiration from Native American Grandmothers who have been doing water walks to pray for the water\, and from when the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act was celebrated. \n  \n \nVermont Abenaki Artists Association is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Cultural Sustainability program\, made possible by the Wallace Foundation.
URL:https://abenakiart.org/event/nebizun-water-is-life-exhibit/
LOCATION:Chimney Point\, 31 VT-17\, Addison\, VT\, 05491\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit,Nebizun,Nebizun: Water is Life,Water is Life
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SUMMARY:Hidden Heritage: The Vermont Indian  Community\, 1790-2010
DESCRIPTION:An Indigenous People’s Day Celebration\nThe Community Room\, The Vermont History Center 60 Washington St. Barre\, VT \n10:00 AM-3:30 PM. October 11\, 2025\nIntroduction & Backstory \nThe reality underwriting Vermont’s neglected Indian community is totally unlike the rather controversial public image advocated by University of Vermont scholars and department heads\, the Vermont media\, and even some Abenaki tribal leaders.  Discriminatory\, eugenical standards regarding Vermont Abenaki identity demand that ethnic legitimacy flow primarily from demonstrable Indigenous ancestry and historical-cultural continuity; and to a lesser extent\, from ancestral cultural competency and Indigenous community governance. The stereotypic “Vermont Abenaki” Indian deconstructed by local academia and media meets none of these criteria. Yet dedicated Vermont Indigenous people have taken their disregarded history\, anthropology\, ecology and geography into their own hands\, — delving into government documents\, collecting and curating collections of local aboriginal artifacts\, images and writings\, retrieving ancestral family practices\, skills\, photographs and memories\, growing heritage crops in Indian ways\, and creating new\, heritage-based art. \nThis Indigenous People’s Day will offer interested Vermonters a short introduction to a hidden heritage. This vast\, mostly native-generated “Indigenous information landscape” has been carefully sampled\, curated\, and organized by Dr. Frederick Matthew Wiseman; to offer a short\, yet comprehensive introduction to compelling evidence and direct certification of resident Vermont Indigeneity in his new book Something of Value: The Vermont Abenakis: 1790-2000. \nOn October 11\, 2025\, Dr. Wiseman will present a day-long program in Barre that lets this Native-generated evidence speak for itself — through dynamic PowerPoint lectures\, and direct\, on-site encounters with foundational Vermont Indian artifacts\, imagery\, and official documents\, on the historical and modern American Abenaki experience. This informative program will also provide opportunities for Q & A\, impromptu discussion with attending tradition bearers\, an opportunity to view the Abenaki Cultural Conservancy’s collection at the History Center\, as well as purchase Something of Value and corroborating in-print popular and scholarly literature. \nSupported in part by Vermont Humanities. \n \nThe Program \n10:00-10:15 Welcome\, Coffee & Donuts\nWelcome from Community Leaders and meet & greet tradition bearers. 10:15-11:00 Introduction: What is a Vermont Indian? Discussion of the records of historical indigeneity in Vermont state and federal certificates and other documents. Primary source material such as birth certificates\, Selective Service registration cards\, Eugenics records; prison and medical records\, and death certificates will be shared and explained. Examples of these important records are illustrated in the Vermont Birth\, Eugenics\, & death records: the revolution documents booklet available for sale. \n11:00-12:00 Traces of an Indian Past: 1790-1970\nDiscussion of the written and testimonial record of resident Vermont people believing\, making and doing “Indian things” in the 19th and 20th centuries. This historical material includes an indigenous Vermont language\, apparently independent from Canadian Abenaki\, 19th and 20th century basketmaking\, hunting\, fishing\, architecture\, and other minor activities. We also consider the physical and graphic record of cultural continuity\, much of it referred to in Vermont Indigenous Material Culture\, Abenaki Beadwork\, and the in-press\, Abenaki Basketry which will be available for sale. \n12:00- ca. 1:00 PM Lunch Break “Lunch on your own.” Suggestions for takeout and\ndelivery available. \n1:00-2:00 A Modern Vermont Indigenous Year\, ca. 2010.\nAn introduction to the regionally unique horticultural/ceremonial calendar that has\npersisted in Vermont and nearly New Hampshire until today\, including unique landrace seeds\, field preparation\, planting\, and crops\, as well as calendrical and horticultural ceremonies\, such as the Forgiveness Moon solstice-adjacent ritual\, and the Field Blessing\, Green Corn\, and Harvest Ceremonies. This distinctive Vermont biocultural experience is placed in a larger regional context in The Seven Sisters… book\, also available for sale in the MWR Headquarters gift shop.. \n2:00-3:00 The Vermont Indian Community: 1900-2010\nA discussion of new insights into traditional 19th and 20th century American Abenaki community structure\, governance\, organization and settlement geography. Distinctive regional Indigenous sub-communities include forest camps\, tourist-adapted encampments\, complex linear arrays of tiny rural settlements and dispersed and\nconcentrated settlements within Euroamerican villages. To find more interesting detail on these Vermont Indigenous communities\, refer to Chapter V in Something of Value. \n3:00-3:30 Book Signing for Dr. Wiseman’s Something of Value Book.\nThis is also an opportunity to examine historical artifacts & documents\, and to\npurchase informational materials on the Vermont indigenous community. \nDownload flyer here
URL:https://abenakiart.org/event/hidden-heritage-the-vermont-indian-community-1790-2010/
LOCATION:Vermont History Center\, 60 Washington Street\, Suite 1\, Barre\, VT\, 06541\, United States
CATEGORIES:Abenaki,American Abenaki,Historical Talk,Indigeanous,Indigenous Peoples Day
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