Blog: Voices of Decolonization
The Power of Poetry
January 07, 2022
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...
Read More ShareThe Importance of Education and Trust Building for Wabanaki Self-Governance
December 02, 2021
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...
Read More ShareBeyond the Claims— Stories from the Land + the Heart
November 04, 2021
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...
Read More ShareJames Michael Manley: Portrait of the Artist
October 07, 2021
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...
Read More ShareA Conversation with Skutik Riverkeepers
September 02, 2021
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...
Read More ShareThe Was and the Is: USM Land Acknowledgment
August 05, 2021
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....
Read More ShareTruth, Healing, and Change at USM
July 20, 2021
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...
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July 01, 2021
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...
Read More ShareMaking History Matter in Divided Times
June 15, 2021
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...
Read More ShareDecolonization Means Playing Bingo
June 02, 2021
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...
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