November 02, 2026

What does it mean to be Passamaquoddy today? I have been asking myself this question for many years. Our tribe's only validation is my blood, yet they quantify it without taking a sample to measure it accurately. Is it simply my blood? Although that...

October 05, 2026

“Rivers are not resources, they are kin,” Jennifer Neptune explained to an audience of twenty-six curriculum directors and teachers from across the state of Maine on the opening day of the Wabanaki Studies Summer Institute. Jennifer is an accomplished Penobscot basketmaker and beadworker as...

September 07, 2026

I remember how it felt to hear the word spreading among our harvest festival now 10 years ago.  A wave of “We did it!” filled the air among the flint corn field we had seen through its season. The harvest festival held that year...