In the Brandon (VT) newspaper “Vermont Record” dated August 12, 1864, we find the following report of an exhumation of an Old One from their final resting place on the west bank of the Kwenitekw. The period language used in the article makes clear the attitudes and understandings of the times, which have only resulted in further separation from our relationship with this Place today.

It is worth noting that the same challenges continue here in the mid-valley of Kwenitekw, with the impoundment and industrial generation facilities operated by FirstLight Hydro (a subsidiary of Montreal-based PSP Investments) and Great River Hydro (a subsidiary of provincially-owned HydroQuebec).

On the Gregorian calendar, today is September 22, 2024 and at 8:44 this morning the Fall Equinox was noted in this part of the land, as a transition in the current solar cycle. This is the moment when - as the planet continues the cyclical tip away from the sun - the duration of day and night are equal. The English word “equinox” draws its roots from Old French and Latin for “equal-night.”

On June 5th, the Village of Bellows Falls hosted the annual (2024) statewide Downtown & Historic Preservation Conference. The conference was sponsored by the Preservation Trust of Vermont and the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development in partnership with the Town of Rockingham, the Bellows Falls Downtown Development Alliance and the Vermont Arts Council. One of the featured late morning presentations - held in the Rockingham Free Library - was entitled Kchi Pôntegok Akiôtloka: The Land Speaks Its Stories.

Awasi saba (Western Abenaki) means “after/beyond tomorrow.”

Ndakinna - what does that word mean?

A poem by Joseph Bruchac

Here is a comprehensive, non-partisan, neutral statement of contemporary realities in the US - a non-divisive assessment of divisions, if you will…

Comments filed with Vermont Public reporter Elodie Reed, in response to a request for comment following the announcement of the visit by press release from the W8banaki Inc/GCNWA’s public relations firm Seize03, and her intended coverage of the spectacle… The full text is shared here, in the likelihood that very little of the commentary will make it into the final article expected to be released this week.

Who do we meet down in the river bottom meadows at the Hogle Wildlife Sanctuary on a midsummer morning visit, July 2nd, 2024? These are places of abundant gifts of sustenance and medicine, with constant activity and exchange among All of Our Relations.

Until recently, it was believed that the only Eastern Abenaki to survive in their traditional territories was a remnant of the Penobscot.

Commentary appearing in VTDigger on June 18, 2024.
”The descendant Abenaki communities within what is now called the state of Vermont are not “less than” or “other,” much less nonexistent.”

We’re taking a look at toponyms in the Kwenitekw valley through the eyes of late 18th-century British cartographers with the 1777 Lotter and Sauthier Map of New York and New Jersey.

A feature article in Monadnock Table (March-April 2024 issue), a bimonthly publication of the Keene Sentinel. Article by Caroline Tremblay, with photos by Kelly Fletcher, published Mar 15, 2024 and updated Mar 20, 2024.

Mawooshen is the name attributed at early European contact (late 1500s to early 1600s) to what is today's midcoast Maine - an area from the Saco River (Biddeford) east to the Union River (Ellsworth).

A letter written to Tyler Boronski, reporting for WPTZ NBC5 last night on the public presentation and accompanying protest held at UVM earlier that evening:

The four Vermont state-recognized Abenaki tribes, together as the Vermont Abenaki Alliance, held a press conference on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, to call attention to our vibrant history, authenticity, and issue a call for tolerance and open exchange

Burlington, Vermont/Politon, Kdakinna (April 23, 2024) — The four Vermont state-recognized Abenaki tribes, together as the Vermont Abenaki Alliance, will hold a press conference on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 to call attention to our vibrant history, authenticity, and issue a call for tolerance and open exchange. Media representatives and fellow citizens are invited to join us at 9 am in the meeting room at Seventh Generation, 60 Lake St., Burlington, VT 05401.

There are many ways of being in the Circle we call Life. The choices we make together will determine how that Circle continues.

A recent Vital Partnerships area community support project with which Atowi was a grateful participant: “Wichie Artu, Executive Director of Vital Partnerships, and Ruben Garza, Executive Director of United Way of Windham County, outline why community resilience is important to our work. We've used our data-driven problem statement to take action and uplift our community by funding key partner organizations.”

Members of Vermont’s Indigenous communities, Indigenous Peoples consisting of a diaspora of relocated Native Americans who have put down roots in Vermont, and allies of these groups, acting as the Vermont Coalition of Indigenous Communities and Allies, are petitioning the US Forest Service to extend the deadline for commenting on a proposal to timber 12,000 acres of Telephone Gap in the Green Mountain National Forest.