Blog: Voices of Decolonization

by Butch Phillips, Penobscot Nation (An  excerpt from “`Wilderness within Wildness without’ by Bridget Besaw) During an up river canoe trip to Katahdin, our sacred mountain, my son Scott and I paused to rest...

by Erika Arthur [Warning – painful content on Indian Boarding Schools below] In May, 2021 the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation of Canada announced that they had discovered the bodies of 215 children buried...

By Jeffrey Hotchkiss. In 2009, I learned of my connection to an infamous act of violence against Indigenous people. My family name was on the four cannon that helped to kill hundreds of Lakota...

The Dawnland Signals show for December was such a special treat. We had a wonderful virtual visit with poets Mihku Paul and Penthea Burns, discussing how they came to write poems and how they...

This month’s blog features a contribution earlier this year to The Maine Policy Review by Wabanaki REACH Team member Katie Tomer  Katie Tomer, part Penobscot and Maliseet, has co-facilitated Native healing circles in Maine’s...

by Kate Russell | Project Coordinator, Wabanaki REACH It’s through a dynamic emergent process of confrontation with the truth that solutions arise. Trauma involves a lifelong pushing down— a tremendous expenditure of energy– into...

In April 2021, James Manley kindly agreed to be interviewed about his creative process and the paintings he has so generously shared with Wabanaki REACH.   James Manley is an inmate at the Maine...

Restoring the Stream of Life in Our Rivers - Part 2 by Diane Oltarzewski The source of the St. Croix (or Skutik) River is Monument Brook and North Lake, along the international boundary in...

Reflections on Writing a Land Acknowledgment By Libby Bischof & Aaron Witham For the first time in 141 years, the University of Southern Maine opened its May graduation ceremonies with a Land Acknowledgment. Due...

Between February and June 2021 the Native-led Land Recognition Committee (LRC), established at the University of Southern Maine (USM), met to make recommendations for an aesthetic representation of land acknowledgement for the new buildings...