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...

August 03, 2026

As recently as 400 years ago, Wabanaki people would routinely canoe roughly 9 miles down what is now called the Goose River from their fields and forests along its banks to its estuary, joining the Passagassawakeag River and ultimately widening into Penobscot Bay. There...