| Vermont Indigenous Celebration |
| July 9-12,2009 Burlington, Vt. |
| © 2009 Vermont Indigenous Celebration |
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| The Vermont Indigenous Celebration Abenaki Books |
| The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of th Abenaki Nation By Frederick Matthew WIseman "[My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the Abenaki community. The second strand is our history and that of our relatives, written down by European, Native American, and Euroamerican observers. The third strand is what our Mother the Earth has revealed to us through the studies and writings of those who delve in her, the archaeologists and paleoecologists. The fourth strand is my own family history and its stories. The fifth strand is, of course, that which has come to me alone, stories which I create with my own beliefs and visions." So begins the first book about Abenaki history and culture written from the inside." |
| Aunt Sarah: Women of the Dawnland By Trudy Ann Parker The greatest testimony to the skills of a medicine woman is that she lived to see 108 winters herself. Sarah (Jackson) Somers reached out to help and heal many more humans and animals than she could ever keep track of. A St. Francis Abenaki whose homeland hugged the border between Vermont and Canada, she was known to most simply as "Aunt Sarah." Now, her great-great niece has captured her life's story in a book of the same name. Trudy Ann Parker wrote Aunt Sarah: Woman of the Dawnland (1994, Dawnland Publications) not from written records, but from a legacy of spoken lore handed down at kitchen tables, beside campfires, and at the knees of several generations of relations. |
| Reclaiming the Ancestors: Decolonizing a Taken Prehistory of the Far Northeast By Frederick Matthew Wiseman "...Sets the record straight about the early history of the Wabanaki - the Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Malecite, and Mi'kmaq. He proposes a sovereigntist approach to understanding the current archaeological understanding of Abenaki prehistory. Combining personal history and scientific training with archaeological and paleoecological data he provides a new perspective on the 11,000-year history of the Wabanaki of the East Coast. |
| Champlain Tech: Naval & Military Technology of the 1609 Lake Champlain Expedition A Comprehensive Guide By Frederick M. Wiseman, PhD Champlain’s voyage to Lake Champlain with sixty Indigenous companions in July 1609 stood at a decisive nexus of technological history. Champlain Tech provides valuable insight into the early seventeenth century Native and European transportation, navigation, clothing, arms, armor, food, healing, and other material and knowledge-based systems that were adapting to each other. Text and lavish four-color illustrations document the first comprehensive attempt at understanding this little known period of American technological history. Forthcoming, July 2009 |
| Baseline 1609: The Native People of the Far Northeast At the Dawn of Recorded History By Frederick M. Wiseman, PhD A comprehensive review of the culture and geopolitics of the people who greeted Champlain and other explorers along the Acadian Coast and the St. Lawrence River. The early seventeenth century Wabanakis and their neighbors were socially and technologically sophisticated communities bound together, both politically and economically, by a great alliance with their neighbors. Heretofore unpublished graphics and artifacts complement the text. Teachers’ resources include an annotated bibliography, and contact information on modern descendents of the groups discussed in the book. Forthcoming, September 2009 |
| At Lake Between: The Great Council Fire and the European Discovery of Lake Champlain By Frederick M. Wiseman, PhD In the summer of 1609 Samuel Champlain came to Lake Champlain as part of an international strike force to engage the Iroquois in battle. With quotes, interpretive text and color illustrations, At Lake Between looks at this historic encounter from a native perspective, focused not on Champlain, or even the battle, but on the complex cultural, political and diplomatic back-story that led to the European discovery of the lake. Forthcoming, June 2009 |
