Federal Grant Approved for Study of Abenaki Carvings in Bellows Falls
In VTDigger May 30, 2022, reported by Ethan Weinstein
A federal grant will support study of a petroglyph site in Bellows Falls by a local Indigenous group, the Elnu Abenaki.
The town of Rockingham, which includes the village of Bellows Falls, in collaboration with the Elnu Abenaki, received a nearly $37,000 underrepresented communities grant from the National Park Service to support two years of research around the site, beginning this fall.
Roger Longtoe Sheehan, chief of the Elnu Abenaki, said he hopes the project will increase awareness about the Abenaki and the landscape they traditionally inhabited.