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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Our Songs Remember 03/17/2024

From Ethan Allen Homestead:

Our Songs Remember is a combination lecture and performance focusing on the ways in which the Abenaki oral traditions of storytelling and music play a part in the preservation of indigenous ways. Incorporating Pakholigan (the drum) and Pabekongan (the flute), father and son Joseph and Jesse Bruchac take you on a journey to the enduring roots of the Western Abenaki nations, showing how songs carry the heart and meaning of this enduring Native American culture.

Both English and Abenaki language are heard throughout the presentation and several stories are told that exemplify the way oral tradition has always served at least two purposes—to entertain and to instruct. A well-published author in many genres, Joseph Bruchac is a citizen and honored elder of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation. Jesse Bruchac, also an enrolled Nulhegan citizen, is the founder and Director of the School of Abenaki at Middlebury College, a musician, and frequent language consultant for television and movies. Both can be seen in the new PBS documentary MONADNOCK, The Mountain That Stands Alone, posted on joebruchac.com.

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Vermont Indigenous Peoples' Day 10/11/2019

Vermont Senator Debbie Ingram is joined by Charles Delaney, Abenaki Nation, to discuss the efforts to pass Indigenous Peoples' Day into law, which is replacing Columbus Day in Vermont for the first time this year.

Artful Word: Abenaki Heritage Festival Lake Champlain Maritime Museum 06/23/2019

"Accompany award-winning producer James Gero on an enlightening voyage of exploration. Extricate yourself from a world regulated with all the bells and whistles of modernity. Journey to a world forgotten by most but not by all. Meet Chief Don Stevens, majestic and elegant spokesman of the Abenaki people. Big as a bear, larger than life, a Native American down to earth; a diplomatic and congenial storyteller and leader extraordinaire. Walking in his footsteps is like walking down the path he has not forgotten, a path of peoples of ancient civilizations, trade, water travel, and vast commerce.

The native peoples inhabited and thrived on this continent. The first inhabitants of their sacred waterways, hunting, and fishing grounds, living and loving, free peoples and their own communal embrace. For over 30,000 years they thrived unmolested and greatly prospered. Listen to stories of their spirit gods and fables of moral righteousness. Relive their language and all the wisdom that they hold close to their hearts, then and now.

If you can listen, you now will hear the true history of great civilizations, friends, and loving families. This land is the land of the first peoples. Throw out your history books and now recognize the real peoples, the first inhabitants of this continent, the native Americans."

- written by James A. Gero

Artful Word: Abenaki History at Ethan Allen Homestead 09/22/2018

James Gero tours an Abenaki history exhibit and talk by Fred Wiseman on Abenaki agriculture and seed saving.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Chief Grey Lock and Abenaki Culture 05/21/2017

Long before the first European settler arrived, Vermont was home to a diverse community with a distinct culture and language. George Larrabee is a Tribal Council Member of the Abenaki Clan of the Hawk. living in Woodbury, VT. He has impersonated Chief Grey Lock at various festivals. George has written extensively about the Abenaki culture. Using hand-crafted items, he will explain and demonstrate the Abenaki culture and language tracing the origin of some Abenaki words.

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Vermont Rt. 78 Archaeological Excavations of the Missisquoi Floodplain 12/17/2014

Jeannine Russell, VTrans Archaeology Officer, summarizes the exciting results of the Northeast Archaeology Research Center's large scale archaeological excavations along Route 78 in Swanton. The Missisquoi floodplain preserved a remarkable record of human occupation spanning nearly 7000 years. more info: www.neararchaelogy.com/swanton.html

Positively Vermont: Vermont Abenaki Heritage 07/14/2014

Host Dennis McMahon speaks with Catherine Brooks, Cultural Heritage Tourism Coordinator with the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing, Don Stevens, Chief of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe, and Frederick Wiseman, Historian Citizen, St. Francis/Sokoki Band, Professor in the Humanities Department of Johnson State College, on Abenaki heritage and culture in Vermont.

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Winooski: City of Reinvention 02/08/2007

Produced by CCTV Productions, this video tells the story of downtown Winooski from the days of the Abenaki Indians and Ira Allen until today. It features footage of the 1973 urban renewal and looks extensively at the recent redevelopment project. The project also features music by Pete Sutherland. In 2007, it was awarded 1st place in the Alliance for Community Media North East Video Contest in the Documentary Profile category.

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