Blog: Voices of Decolonization

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, questioning my identity...

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 Reconciliation Commission issued its  report...

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 Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth...

 "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 life-giving nutrients to the farthest reaches of...

Tom Reynolds and the Paths Growing Awareness Can Take · by Gregory Brown ·   Finding the exact intersection of past experience, known skills, personal blind spots, and the desire to evolve and grow...

It’s winter, and at the beginning of the bridge to the Penobscot Nation, bolted to a cold streetlamp, is a red sign that reads: “CHECK POINT AHEAD: BE PREPARED TO STOP.” Put up to...

When it comes to the land, food, and medicine, what does it mean to be an expert? Colonial culture, in its nastiest, know-it-all ways and well-grooved system of exclusion, points to those with degrees,...

Text and Photos by Erica Buswell “Colonization established a system that paves the way for a privileged group to take control of a territory for the purposes of gaining wealth.  Colonization views the land,...

Wherever we go, Wabanaki REACH likes to make a point to acknowledge the land on which we gather, and the spirits of those who walked it before us.  Recognizing one’s place on the landscape has...

As I write this on Indigenous People’s Day, an officially recognized holiday in the state of Maine, I struggle to understand why I grew up being taught by my primary school teachers that I...