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  • Bridging Perspectives - "Who is a Legal Indian" with Paul Rene Tamburro

    “Who is a “Legal” Indian? – Navigating Federal and State Laws in the US and Canada with Paul-René Tamburro

    ZOOM

    "Who is a “Legal” Indian? - Navigating Federal and State Laws in the US and Canada" with Paul-René Tamburro. This thought-provoking session addresses the ongoing struggle for individuals to assert their right to declare and determine their own cultural identity, seeking equitable representation within larger mainstream communities and governmental entities.  Navigating Federal and State Laws ... Read more

    Free
  • Bridging Perspectives speaker series talk on Intergenerational Trauma by Andrea Tamburro.

    Intergenerational Trauma: Healing and Resilience with Andrea Tamburro, MSW, Ed. D.

    ZOOM

    Intergenerational Trauma: Healing and Resilience with Andrea Tamburro, MSW, Ed. D.  This 60-minute Zoom program provides a space to discuss the enduring impact of colonization, which triggers both past and current struggles for Native American individuals and families, with a particular focus on the Abenaki and other Northeastern tribes. Together, we aim to foster a deeper ... Read more

    Free
  • Dr. Joseph Bruchac presents Remembering the Dawn Land - a Bridging Perspectives Speaker Series presentation.

    Joseph Bruchac to Launch New Book Called Dawn Land

    ZOOM

    Joseph Bruchac to Launch New Book Called Dawn Land - Mark you calendar now! You don't want to miss this ZOOM presentation by this nationally acclaimed Abenaki author. Remembering The Dawn Land: A presentation on the historical novel Dawn Land by its author, Joseph Bruchac The area we now refer to as Western New England ... Read more

    Free
  • Bridging Perspective speaker series presentation Inoculating Whiteness - Settler Colonialism, Whiteness, & Infectious Diseases in Sheet'ka -Adam Kersch, PhD.

    Inoculating Whiteness: Settler Colonialism, Whiteness, & Infectious Diseases in Sheet’ka – Adam Kersch, Ph.D.

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    When colonizers arrived in Sheet'ka (Sitka, Alaska), the homeland of the Tlingit people, they imported devastating infectious diseases. Russian and Euro-American colonizers' writings describe these diseases as a marker of colonizers' self-assumed superiority. Colonizers saw vaccines as introducing a material part of European technology that would ultimately lead to Tlingit people's acceptance of Russian and ... Read more

    Free
  • Bridging Perspectives talk by Randy Kritkausky

    Speaker Series: An Indigenous Perspective on Nature: Working Together as Allies

    Webinar

    New Speaker Series Zoom Presentation: An Indigenous Perspective on Nature: Working Together as Allies Author and storyteller Randy Kritkausky, a federally enrolled tribal member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation who lives in Vermont, writes about awakening to Native American spiritual teachings. He has come to regard owls, coy-wolves, and the forest enveloping his home as ... Read more

    Free
  • Bridging Perspectives - Dr. Marge Bruchac - Encountering Ndakinna

    Speaker Series: Encountering Ndakinna: Reconsidering Abenaki History in Vermont and New Hampshire

    Webinar

    New Speaker Series Zoom Presentation: Encountering Ndakinna: Reconsidering Abenaki History in Vermont and New Hampshire Indigenous histories are deeply rooted in northern New England, particularly in present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, a region collectively known to Abenaki people as Ndakinna (“our homeland”). Early colonial explorers recognized the abundant natural resources that made this territory so ... Read more

    Free

  • Seminar Series: The Abenaki Cultural Conservancy Collection

    Vermont History Center 60 Washington Street, Suite 1, Barre, VT, United States

    STONE LANGUAGE - An American Abenaki Bioculture Seminar Series 10:00 AM-3:30 PM Community Room, The Vermont History Center 60 Washington St., Barre, VT Upcoming seminar schedule: 2026 TOPICS TBA - Hold ... Read more

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