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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

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    "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

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

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

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    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

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

    Joseph Bruchac to Launch New Book Called Dawn Land

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    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

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  • 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

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  • Bridging Perspectives Speaker Series - Fred Wiseman, PhD - A Case Study in Continuity of Culture

    Hunting and Fishing: A Case Study in Cultural Continuity – Frederick M. Wiseman, Ph.D.

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     Hunting and Fishing: A Case Study in Cultural Continuity - Frederick M. Wiseman, PhD. American Abenaki people in Vermont were and are culturally competent in many types of Indigenous hunting and trapping techniques as well as the use of traditional hunting spirituality. They have used sophisticated Native American technologies such as canoes and snowshoes to ... Read more

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  • 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