Blog: Voices of Decolonization

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...

by Marissa Joly Reprinted with permission from the Gloria S. Duclos convocation at University of Southern Maine - Written Expressions: Voices from Native American Communities (April 2021) Growing up as a mixed indigenous person,...

by Barbara Will and Charlotte Bacon This essay appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution January 29, 2021 and is reprinted with permission. It has been six years since the historic Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and...

by Bennett Collins We are so pleased to share this month's blog written by our dear friend and accomplice Bennett Collins who, along with his friend and research partner, Ali Watson followed the Maine...

Part 1:  The Kennebec by Diane Oltarzewski "Reverence brings healing. It is the fulcrum of the great turningof civilization toward reunion with nature." (Charles Eisenstein) Rivers are the veins of our Mother. They carry...