Vermont Abenaki Artists Association

Native American Arts Marketplace
2026-06-13 11:00 - 2026-06-14 16:00 (America/New_York) | Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, VT, 05491, United States
Meet Abenaki Artists at the Native Arts Marketplace!

Find beadwork, jewelry, paintings, baskets, wampum, stonework, woodworking, drums, rattles, and more.

Every purchase helps sustain traditional artistry!
Explore Abenaki perspectives on life in the Champlain Valley with storytelling, drumming, and singing by citizens of the Elnu, Nulhegan, Koasek, and Missisquoi Abenaki Tribes.

Bring a picnic and enjoy the Abenaki Heritage Weekend!

Presented through a partnership between Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, Abenaki Alliance, and Abenaki Arts & Education Center, and Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

Vermont Abenaki Artists Association is supported by:
– New England Foundation for the Arts’ Cultural Sustainability program, made possible by the Wallace Foundation.
– Vermont Arts Council
– Vermont Humanities
– Vermont Community Foundation

For questions or accommodations, contact:
Communications@abenakiart.org or visit
www.abenakiart.org/abenaki-heritage-weekend/

Abenaki Heritage Weekend 2026
2026-06-13 11:00 - 2026-06-14 16:00 | Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, VT, 05491, United States
Join Vermont’s Native American community for Abenaki Heritage Weekend and Arts Marketplace June 13-14 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT.
Admission FREE. Rain or shine.

Citizens of Vermont’s Elnu, Nulhegan, Koasek, and Missisquoi Tribes share perspectives on life in the Champlain Valley. Storytelling, craft demonstrations, drumming, singing, and a children’s play area. Featured arts include jewelry, wampum, quillwork, stonework, woodworking, and more.

Bring a picnic and lunch while you listen.

For questions or accommodations, contact: Communications@abenakiart.org
Event information: Abenaki Heritage Weekend – Vermont Abenaki Artists Association

Presented through a partnership between Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, Abenaki Alliance, and Abenaki Arts & Education Center, and Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

Vermont Abenaki Artists Association is supported by:
– New England Foundation for the Arts’ Cultural Sustainability program, made possible by the Wallace Foundation.
– Vermont Arts Council
– Vermont Humanities
– Vermont Community Foundation

Vermont Abenaki Artwork on View at Fair Haven Welcome Center in June
2026-06-01 07:00 - 2026-06-30 19:00 | Fair Haven Welcome Center, 1356 Prospect St., Route 4, Fair Haven, VT, 05743, United States
A special display of recent work by Abenaki artists is on view at Fair Haven Welcome Center during June. Many Abenaki artists combine creative inspiration with appreciation of Vermont’s natural wonders: a handmade basket shaped like a miniature turtle, beaded earrings inspired by a waterfall, a rattle made from deer hooves, a painted heron in twig frame decorated with feathers, and more. Fair Haven Welcome Center,
located on Route 4, is open daily from 7am to 7pm – and provides free coffee! You can find more work by Abenaki artists at Abenaki Heritage Weekend, June 13-14 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi Heritage Celebration
2026-05-23 10:00 - 2026-05-24 17:00 | Swanton Recreation, 16 Jewett Street, Swanton, VT, 05488, United States
The Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi Community Events Committee and Tribal Council are thrilled to announce the return of our annual Memorial Day weekend Heritage Celebration. With collaboration from Swanton Rec, this Heritage Celebration will be filled with tribal drumming, dancing, singing, food vendors and craft vendors.
Free admission, open to the public.
10am-5pm Saturday 5/23/26 and Sunday 5/24/26
Grand Entry begins at 12pm
Come enjoy the beauty of the Abenaki culture and support the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi.

Introduction to the new American Abenaki Curriculum
2026-04-20 17:00 - 18:30 | ZOOM
Introduction to the new American Abenaki Curriculum
Free 90 minute teacher training on 4/20 at 5 pm

Explore the American Abenaki Curriculum: A Journey of History and Resilience with us!
• How to navigate the curriculum website with confidence
• The Inquiry Design Model (IDM) and how it supports.
• Ready-to-use resources that center Abenaki history, resilience, and living culture
• Live Q&A so you can ask questions and explore real classroom applications

ZOOM registration required:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/FSK-u33bRqGcYpQMDW1KOg

Black Ash Workshop
2026-04-18 10:00 - 16:00 | Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, 111 West Street, Essex Junction, VT, 05452, United States
The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation and UVM Forestry Club / Femmes in Forestry invite you to join a hands-on black ash pounding workshop! (Community service for our Scouting friends!)
Kerry Royce Wood and Aaron Wood will provide instruction in pounding black ash to process splints for basket making.
Make sure to bring a hearty lunch, wear comfortable clothing for being outside, closed-toe shoes, and work gloves (if possible). Drinking water and bathrooms are available.

Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum Maple Day
2026-03-21 10:00 - 14:00 | Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum, 18 Highlawn Rd, Warner, NH, 03278, United States
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum invites the public to welcome the return of spring with Maple Day, a family-friendly program celebrating the traditional practice of maple sugaring at 18 Highlawn Rd., Warner, NH. The outdoor program will run from 10am – 2pm and is free to the public.

Program Highlights Include:
– Observe maple sap boiling over a traditional outdoor fire pit
– Demonstration clay pots have been donated by NH artist Eric Maglio
– Play a variety of Native American games
– Storytelling by expert storyteller, Madeleine Gosselin Wright, citizen of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki
– Mounted Animal Specimens from the Harris Center for Conservation
– Learn how acorns are traditionally transformed into pancakes…topped with maple syrup
– Enjoy maple baked goods and hot beverages, available by donation
– Community Partners from ABA will be available to discuss services for people on the Autism Spectrum

Introduction to the New American Abenaki Curriculum
2026-03-15 14:00 - 15:00 | ZOOM
Sunday, March 15 – 2:00 pm – Zoom
Introduction to the American Abenaki Curriculum
FREE 60-Minute Virtual PD for K–12 Educators

Explore the American Abenaki Curriculum: A Journey of History and Resilience with us!
How to navigate the curriculum website with confidence.
The Inquiry Design Model (IDM) and how it supports.
Ready-to-use resources that center Abenaki history, resilience, and living culture.
Live Q&A so you can ask questions and explore real classroom applications.

Registration is Required!

Click here to register

Winter Storytelling at the Farm
2026-03-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Retreat Farm, 400 Linden Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Elnu Abenaki Chief Roger in the North Barn from 2-4 pm on March 29 for the traditional Abenaki winter pastime of storytelling and song.
Roger Longtoe Sheehan is the Sôgmô (Chief) of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe and a talented Abenaki artist, Native musician, historian, and educator.
Having spent most of his life researching Native Woodland cultures and history, he takes great joy in sharing it with others. He does this through speaking engagements, performances of Wabanaki music and traditional storytelling for people of all ages.
This is a free event supported in part by the Vermont Humanities and in partnership with Retreat Farm, located at 45 Farmhouse Square, Brattleboro, VT, United States, Vermont 05301. The Retreat Farm Facebook Page event listing can be seen here.

Nulhegan Snow Snake Games
2026-02-28 12:00 - 16:00 | Nulhegan Educational and Cultural Center, 26 School Road, Derby Line, VT, 05830, United States
Psôn Skoks- Snow Snake Games will be held after the Tribal Council Meeting and the pot luck lunch. All are invited to join for the pot luck (bring something to share, if you can) and then enjoy the snow snake games, which should start around 1:00 p.m. – the ending time of 4:00 p.m. is only a guess – they could end sooner (or later)!

Please come and join in the fun!

Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum Snow Snake Games
2026-02-21 10:00 - 14:00 | Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum, 18 Highlawn Rd, Warner, NH, 03278, United States
Pson-Skoks or Snow Snake is a winter game which has been played by many Northeastern Tribal Nations for generations. Join Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum in partnership with Abenaki Trails for our very own Snow Snake Games on Saturday, February 21st from 10am-2pm. The museum will be open and we will have hot cocoa and smores.
Outside events are free but regular admission applies to tour the museum. There will be plenty of snow snakes to borrow to try out. If you attended the workshop, make sure to bring the snow snake you decorated. Unsure of how to play or don’t have a snow snake of your own? Don’t worry, we have you covered! Join in on the winter fun for all ages!
Click here for more information

Benjamin Gleason: Lost in Translation
2026-02-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Wantastegok Cultural Center, 350 Putney Rd, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
A story drawn from histories very close to home (Wantastegok), inspired by the only locally documented instance of spoken Abenaki language. The complexities of cross-cultural encounters in the lives of the people here before us are carried forward today. It’s good to know from whence we have come.
Presentation free, casual, and open to everyone. It will be held at the Wantastegok Cultural Center, 350 Putney Rd, Brattleboro, VT. Parking on site. Directional map here.
Facebook event listing here.

Snow Snake Games & Campfire with Abenaki Chief Don Stevens
2026-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, VT, 05482, United States
Bundle up and gather around a winter campfire to learn more about Abenaki Culture with Chief Don Stevens of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation. Don will share stories, drumming, songs, and culture of the Abenaki people and teach us the traditional game of Snow Snakes, snow permitting.
Learn more about Snow Snakes, Psôn Skoks
Family Programs are designed for children with an accompanying adult to have fun and learn together. This program is recommended for ages 5 and up. Please purchase a ticket for every person in your group attending the program, both children and adults. Registration is required.
Photo credit Diane Stevens

Registration Details

Registration required. Recommended for ages five and up with accompanying adult. Please purchase a ticket for every person in your group attending the program, both children and adults. Click here to register.

Abenaki Forgiveness Moon Celebration
2026-01-18 15:00 - 17:00 | Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, 1 Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, VT, 05408, United States
Alnobaiwi Abenaki Forgiveness Moon Celebration Sunday, January 18th 2026 3pm-5pm at the Widobaiwi Abenaki Cultural Center, Ethan Allen Homestead Museum. Small Native Arts Display & Marketplace, fireside Drumming & Singing, cultural objects on display and potential demonstration. A wonderful cultural education program and outreach to our local community. All are welcome!

Seminar Series: The Abenaki Cultural Conservancy Collection
2025-12-13 10:00 - 15:30 | Vermont History Center, 60 Washington Street, Suite 1, Barre, VT, 06541, 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 these dates: January 10, February 14, April 11, and May 9

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December’s seminar will be a focused discussion of the Conservancy collection in the Vermont History Center by its founder, Dr. Fred Wiseman, who will discuss its history and the cultural learning that happened along the way in the accumulation of this important material heritage and legacy. This collection covers a little known culture region — Vermont, New Hampshire and Western Maine; and time period (mostly 1790-1970) — and so the joys and pitfalls of working in an intellectual vacuum will be explored.
Over the decades, Dr. Wiseman found that provenance, the documented origin (place of original use) became the most important attribute of an object sitting in an antique dealers shop or the auction block. As time went on, through a process of acquisition, study and reselling questionable items, Wiseman began to see patterns and similarities that demonstrated a regional “American Abenaki Style” in items such as beadwork and basketry, as well as the documented historical presence of more cosmopolitan indigenous items such as basketry fish traps, and “Niagara-style” beadwork that confirm a culturally complex Indian presence in the region.
Recently the collection has emerged as a bedrock source of Vermont Abenaki pride in their history and culture in a time when these precious commodities are under assault. There will be time for discussion during and after the introductory PowerPoint lecture and examinations of the collection in the Historical Society’s Research and Exhibition Gallery.

Indigenous Peoples' Day Celebration
2025-10-13 12:00 - 16:00 | Retreat Farm, 400 Linden Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Elnu Abenaki and the Atowi Project invites you to join a community celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, October 13 from 12-4pm at the Retreat Farm’s North Barn.
The celebration will feature songs, storytelling, and demonstrations by Indigenous artists. The gathering is free and the public is very welcome, by intention! Indigenous-inspired food from Taste of Wantastegok will be available by donation.

This celebration is supported in part by the Vermont Humanities.
Location: Retreat Farm, 45 Farmhouse Square (Rt. 30), Brattleboro, VT 05301
Facebook event listing here.

Something of Value: Exploring the 1790- 2010 Indigenous Vermont Experience.
2025-10-12 09:30 - 16:00 | Vermont History Center, 60 Washington Street, Suite 1, Barre, VT, 06541, United States
The Culminating Public Event of National Wildlife Refuge Week.
Missisquoi Wildlife Refuge Headquarters, 29 Tabor Road, Swanton, VT
9:30 AM-4:00 PM. October 12, 2025
Introduction to the Event
Scholars have neglected the last two centuries of the Vermont Indian story, leading to the belief that the state’s Native community had emigrated to Canada. But since a seminal gathering of Native tradition bearers in Burlington in May 2023, dedicated Vermont Abenakis have taken an abandoned history, anthropology and ecology into their own hands, — delving into government documents, collecting historic baskets and beadwork, and retrieving family memories. Others repatriate this knowledge by growing heritage crops in traditional Vermont Indian ways, curating Indian artifact collections, writing this
material down for posterity, and creating new, heritage-based art. This remarkable information was recently introduced to the public in Something of Value, Dr. Frederick Wiseman’s new book, available for purchase from the Wildlife Refuge.
This gathering updates Dr. Wiseman’s previous Abenaki Tribal training programs at the Wildlife Refuge in the summer of 2023 — augmented by new discoveries in genealogy, history, social structure, community governance and settlement patterns. The program will consist of dynamic PowerPoint lectures, detailed and evocative imagery, ancestral music, and impromptu discussion with attending tradition bearers. Some stories are ethnically definitive, such as a 1906 newborn’s, birth certificate unequivocally bestowing a Vermont-state certified “Indian” racial identity. Other stories are poignant, such as the “Abenaki Lullaby” tearfully recognized during a 2014 performance by an elder who had once heard it as an infant during the Great Depression. Some stories are intellectually radical stories include the discovery of a mid-19 th century American Abenaki art style and unearthing a complex 20th century Indigenous social structure.
Implications
Under the discriminatory criteria regarding Native American identity in North America, ethnic legitimacy flows from documented Native American genealogy, historical cultural continuity, ancestral cultural competency, Indigenous community structure and ancestral governance. The vast information landscape encompassing Vermont Indian ethnicity, history, culture and ecology has been carefully sampled, curated and organized by Dr. Wiseman to offer a comprehensive introduction to compelling evidence and direct certification of resident Vermont Indigeneity – a certainty that has been needed by the settler and Indigenous communities to restore and maintain intercultural respect, peace and tranquility. The presentations are underwritten by curated primary document and museum artifact research collections available for viewing and new works of fiction, and peer-reviewed academic publications available for purchase. There will be also be opportunities for direct, on-site encounters with these foundational Vermont Indian artifacts, imagery, official documents, and corroborating literature on the American Abenaki experience. The educational program will also provide opportunities for Q & A and discussion.
The Missisquoi Wildlife Refuge Program
9:30 Welcome, Coffee & Donuts
Welcome from community leaders, meet and greet tradition bearers, and have a light breakfast.
10:00-11:00 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.
11:00-12:00 Traces of an Indian Past: 1790-1970
Discussion 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.
12:00- ca. 1:00 PM Lunch Break “Lunch on your own.” Suggestions for takeout and delivery available.
1:00-2:00 A Modern Vermont Indigenous Year, ca. 2010.
An introduction to the regionally unique horticultural/ceremonial calendar that has
persisted 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.
2:00-3:00 The Vermont Indian Community: 1900-2010
A 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
concentrated settlements within Euroamerican villages. To find more interesting detail on these Vermont Indigenous communities, refer to Chapter V in Something of Value.
3:00-4:00 Book Signing for Dr. Wiseman’s Something of Value Book.
This is the time to meet and greet Vermont Abenaki Tradition bearers, to examine historical arti-facts up close, and to purchase informational materials on the American
Abenakis of Vermont.
Supported in part by Vermont Humanities

Download Flyer Here

Hidden Heritage: The Vermont Indian Community, 1790-2010
2025-10-11 10:00 - 15:30 | Vermont History Center, 60 Washington Street, Suite 1, Barre, VT, 06541, United States
An Indigenous People’s Day Celebration
The Community Room, The Vermont History Center 60 Washington St. Barre, VT
10:00 AM-3:30 PM. October 11, 2025
Introduction & Backstory
The 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.
This 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.
On 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.
Supported in part by Vermont Humanities.

The Program
10:00-10:15 Welcome, Coffee & Donuts
Welcome 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.
11:00-12:00 Traces of an Indian Past: 1790-1970
Discussion 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.
12:00- ca. 1:00 PM Lunch Break “Lunch on your own.” Suggestions for takeout and
delivery available.
1:00-2:00 A Modern Vermont Indigenous Year, ca. 2010.
An introduction to the regionally unique horticultural/ceremonial calendar that has
persisted 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..
2:00-3:00 The Vermont Indian Community: 1900-2010
A 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
concentrated settlements within Euroamerican villages. To find more interesting detail on these Vermont Indigenous communities, refer to Chapter V in Something of Value.
3:00-3:30 Book Signing for Dr. Wiseman’s Something of Value Book.
This is also an opportunity to examine historical artifacts & documents, and to
purchase informational materials on the Vermont indigenous community.
Download flyer here

Indigenous Peoples' Day Rocks
2025-10-04 10:00 - 17:00 | Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, VT, 05482, United States
In partnership with Chief Donald Stevens and the Nulhegan Abenaki, major sponsors Alnôbaiwi and the Vermont Arts Council, with our host The Shelburne Farms, musician donor The Alchemist, donors, musicians, educators, vendors, exhibitors, and volunteers we look forward to our sixth annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Rocks! celebration, named one of Vermont Chamber of Commerce’s Top 10 Fall Events, on October 4, 2025, at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, Vermont.
Kenny Neal, Dave Keller, Carly Harvey, Jesse Bowman Bruchac, Morgan Lamphere and Chief Stevens & Nulhegan Drummers.
NOTE: Mark your calendar! Please visit the event website for more information.

Abenaki Land Link Project Harvest Festival
2025-09-13 11:00 - 15:00 | Wheeler Homestead, 1100 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403, United States
The Abenaki Land Link Project Harvest Festival is celebration of the harvest of Indigenous Seeds. Free Event! Hosted by the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation and Common Roots

Family friendly activities: Abenaki Artisans, Green Corn cultural performance, storytelling, Three Sisters Food Tastes, Picnicking – BYO, corn grinding and journeycake baking, bean shucking, and more. Nature trails and childrens’ garden discovery area.
A rain or shine event.

Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum Encore Powwow
2025-09-13 10:00 - 16:00 | Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, 18 Highlawn Road, Warner, NH, 03278, United States
The Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum appreciated all who attended and participated at this year’s 24th annual Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum powwow.It has been decided to extend the fun as part of exploring a different weekend for cooler weather and the decision has been made to add a 1-DAY ONLY ENCORE POWWOW to this year’s calendar.
Please plan to come on Saturday, September 13, 2025, for a day of dancing and singing as well as another chance to visit the vendors before the holidays. Bring a chair and umbrella.
The grounds open at 10 am followed by Grand Entry at noon. The powwow ends at 4 pm.
And even if you cannot make it, please let us know what you think about attending our usual 2-day event in the fall instead.

Traces of the Past, Vermont Indigenous Material Culture
2025-09-13 10:00 - 15:00 | Vermont History Center, 60 Washington Street, Suite 1, Barre, VT, 06541, 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:

October 11, 2025. Something of Value: The Vermont Abenakis, 1790-1970
November 8, 2025. Always in Fashion: Wabanaki clothing & Body Adornment
December 13, 2025, The Abenaki Cultural Conservancy Collection
2026 TOPICS TBA – Hold these dates: January 10, February 14, April 11, and May 9

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Join Dr. Frederick Wiseman as he premieres “Traces of the Past,” a review of 1790-1870 Vermont Indigenous decorative arts and tools. He will detail the new state-of-the-art “Stone Language” Indigenous approach to understanding the past through the guided consideration of an object’s material, form, decoration, and use-wear.
Dr. Wiseman will illustrate the technical tools of the material culture scientist, such as microscopes, colorimetry, and image analysis that are now implements used in Native ways to serve Indigenous purposes such and determini9ng ethnic authenticity, ancient land settlement patterns, and cultural revival.
It will focus on the newest of the VT Indigenous Heritage Center Technical Report, specifically deployed to document unbroken culture continuity in the Green Mountain State.
There will be an opportunity for a guided tour of the Abenaki Cultural Conservancy collection in the Vermont History Center, as well as a chance to purchase the “Traces” booklet and other important publications regarding the Vermont Abenaki community.

Nulhegan Abenaki Gathering 2025
2025-08-23 10:00 - 2025-08-24 17:00 | Mount Norris Scout Reservation, 242 Boy Scout Camp Rd, Eden, VT, 05653, United States
The Nulhegan Abenaki Gathering will take place on August 23-24, 2025 at the Mt. Norris Scout Reservation in Eden Mills, VT. (Note that Abenaki citizens may arrive on Friday, August 22nd.)

To see more information about the Nulhegan Abenaki Annual Gathering, click here.

Explore to Learn: Art of Remembering: Songs of the Adirondacks
2025-08-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Pitney Meadows Community Farm, 223 West Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866, United States
Explore to Learn: Art of Remembering: Songs of the Adirondacks with Jesse Bowman Bruchac on Saturday, August 16th, 12:00–1:00pm!

Free with a suggested donation! https://secure.lglforms.com/…/s/qKuPnxkpqeqYVVHd75eouw…

Join Jesse for a music-centered workshop featuring songs of the Adirondacks, weaving together Indigenous traditions, language, and the rich logging-era songs preserved in the Bruchac family.

Accompanied by Native American hand drum, flute, rattle, and the contemporary acoustic guitar, Jesse will transport you through time with each melody. Stories—traditional, folk, and historical—will bring context to the music, offering a deeper connection to the history of this land and one of its first Indigenous languages, Algonquian.

This workshop is for everyone, no matter your age or experience. Bring your kids, your grandparents, or just yourself!

A little bit about Jesse Bruchac! For three decades, Jesse has been immersed in Algonquian language reclamation efforts. He is the founder and director of the School of Abenaki at Middlebury College and the Assistant Director of the Ndakinna Education Center. He first gained fluency in the Eastern Algonquian Abenaki language, learning it directly from the last generation of first-language speakers in the 1990s. He has since worked in language reclamation efforts with several other Eastern Algonquian languages, including Penobscot, Lenni Lenape, Delaware (Munsee and Unami), Mohican (Mahican), Mohegan-Pequot, and Quiripi-Unquachog. He is currently involved in the reawakening of previously dormant Virginia Algonquian languages.

The Green Corn Celebration
2025-08-02 17:30 - 19:30 | The Fort at No. 4, 267 Springfield Rd, Charlestown, NH, 03603, United States
Join us for a shared meal and celebration with Chief Roger Longtoe and members of the Elnu Abenaki as they present the Green Corn Ceremony — a traditional celebration of gratitude, renewal, and the first corn harvest of the season.

The Green Corn Ceremony is a sacred and time-honored practice among many Native American communities. During this gathering, the first ears of corn are ceremonially offered in thanks, honoring the land, the ancestors, and the cycle of life.

More than a harvest festival, this event is a powerful expression of cultural identity — a time to gather in community, give thanks, and pass traditions forward.
Don’t miss this opportunity to experience a living tradition and share in a meaningful evening of storytelling, ceremony, and connection.
Doors open at 5:30, ceremony and dinner begin at 6 PM in the Common. We will move indoors in the event of rain.

12th Annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival: A Celebration of Native American Art, Music and Cultures 2025
2025-08-02 10:00 - 2025-08-03 17:00 | Unity Park Waterfront, 56 First Street, Turners Falls, MA, 01376, United States
A celebration of Native American Art, Music, and Cultures:

Free
Accessible
Family Friendly
Appeals to all ages and backgrounds

Traditional music. Native Drums. Circle dances. Children’s activities. 40 Indigenous artists selling beautiful creations. Indigenous history talks. Contemporary music. Food vendors include indigenous fare. MORE!

Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum 24th Annual Powwow
2025-07-12 10:00 - 2025-07-13 16:00 | Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum, 18 Highlawn Rd, Warner, NH, 03278, United States
Save the date for our biggest event of the year!
Join us for an unforgettable celebration of culture, community, and tradition at MKIM’s 24th Annual Intertribal Powwow! Experience the vibrant colors of regalia, powerful dances, heartwarming music, and over 20 traders with handmade crafts — this event offers something for everyone. Whether you’re learning about Indigenous cultures for the first time or reconnecting with your roots, the Powwow is a must-see event for all ages. Don’t miss out on this chance to share in the spirit of unity and respect. Come be part of Our Circle!
Gates open at 10 am both days with grand entry at noon!

Earthshapers & Placemakers: Abenaki History in Deep Time
2025-06-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, VT, 05491, United States
The physical layout of the Abenaki territory we call “Ndakinna” includes multiple waterways, valleys, mountains, rock formations, etc. that shape the contours of the land. Many of these are still known by locative terms, in the Abenaki language, that describe their physical details. Some places are also known through oral traditions that reference ancient events like glaciation, species evolution, and climate change, encoded in stories of other-than-human “earthshapers.” This talk considers how these stories expand our understandings of the time-depth of Abenaki history in this region, and continue to shape our relations to this landscape, past and present.
Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac (Nulhegan Abenaki) is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and founder of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research
focuses on oral traditions, museum collections, and cultural heritage, and she directs “The Wampum Trail,” a project designed to reconnect wampum belts in museums with their related Indigenous communities. Dr. Bruchac is also a member of the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture. She has long served as a consultant to New England museums, including Historic Deerfield, Historic Northampton, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, and Old Sturbridge Village. Her book Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists (University of Arizona Press 2018) was the winner of the inaugural Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award.
Sponsored by: Abenaki Alliance, New England Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Humanities, and The Vermont Arts Council

Something of Value: the Vermont Abenaki community 1790 - 2020
2025-06-14 13:00 - 14:30 | Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, VT, 05491, United States
Join Dr. Frederick Wiseman as he premieres his new book “Something of Value: The Vermont Abenaki experience: 1790-2020.” Using the twin concepts of cultural continuity and cultural competency, it is a brief, peer-reviewed introduction to the little-known genealogy, history, arts, gardening, architecture, and social organization of the Vermont Abenaki community.
Building on Wiseman’s 35 years of research in regional Indigenous history, this book adds unheard voices and new discoveries from Vermont Indigenous tradition-keepers. Combining copies of historic documents, images and original artifacts with a PowerPoint lecture, Wiseman will suggest that the 21st century Vermont Abenaki cultural-historical narrative as sometimes presented in the news, public programming, and online needs serious revision. This groundbreaking little book points the way. Dr. Wiseman will be signing copies after the program.
Sponsored by: Abenaki Alliance, New England Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Humanities, and The Vermont Arts Council
Come early and enjoy the Abenaki Heritage weekend!

Native American Arts Marketplace
2025-06-14 11:00 - 2025-06-15 16:00 | Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, VT, 05491, United States
Native American Arts Marketplace presented by Vermont Abenaki Artists Association at Abenaki Heritage Weekend, June 14-15 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT. Admission FREE. Featured arts include jewelry, wampum, baskets, stonework, woodworking and more. Explore Abenaki perspectives on life in the Champlain Valley with storytelling, drumming, and singing by citizens of the Elnu, Nulhegan, Koasek, and Missisquoi Abenaki Tribes. Bring a picnic and lunch while you listen.
Sponsored by: Abenaki Alliance, New England Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Humanities, and The Vermont Arts Council
