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  • Celebrating Abenaki Art, Heritage, & Culture

    Celebrating Abenaki Arts, Heritage, & Culture Art Show

    Stone Valley Arts 145 E Main St, Poultney, VT, United States

    Join us at Stone Valley Arts as we celebrate the work of 8 American Abenaki Artists. These Artists have woven together their heritage into traditional and contemporary American Abenaki Fine Art, available for viewing, interaction, and for purchase. The Artists Reception is a special opportunity to meet some of the artists behind this diverse body of work and connect with local native community.

  • Celebrating Abenaki Art, Heritage, & Culture

    Celebrating Abenaki Arts, Heritage, & Culture: Gallery Opening & Artist Reception

    Stone Valley Arts 145 E Main St, Poultney, VT, United States

    Join us at Stone Valley Arts as we celebrate the work of 8 American Abenaki Artists. These Artists have woven together their heritage into traditional and contemporary American Abenaki Fine Art, available for viewing, interaction, and for purchase.

    The Artists Reception is a special opportunity to meet some of the artists behind this diverse body of work and connect with local native community.

  • People holding hands and doing the Round Dance.

    Abenaki Heritage Weekend

    Lake Champlain Maritime Museum 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, VT, United States

    Join the Native American community at the Abenaki Heritage Weekend on June 17 and 18 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum to explore and learn about the Abenaki perspective on life in the Champlain Valley. Activities include several workshops, presentations, drumming, and singing.

    Free

  • 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.

    ZOOM

     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

    Free

  • Something of Value: the Vermont Abenaki community 1790 - 2020

    Something of Value: the Vermont Abenaki community 1790 – 2020

    Lake Champlain Maritime Museum 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, VT, 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 ... Read more

    Free
  • Earthshapers and Placemakers - Abenaki History in Deep Time

    Earthshapers & Placemakers: Abenaki History in Deep Time

    Lake Champlain Maritime Museum 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, VT, 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 ... Read more

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