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Students experience Wabanaki culture through Coastal Rivers program
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Amid Continued Sovereignty Campaign, Wabanaki REACH Creates Play as part of Truth-Telling Project
Black Lives Matter
The Wabanaki REACH Board of Directors unambiguously calls for the end of violence against Black people and we release this statement in support of the truth, healing, and change that is unfolding. In solidarity, Penthea, Alivia, Elise, Denise, Esther, Diane, and Tyler-Ann.
Click here for the REACH Board Statement: Black Lives Matter
March 4th, 2021- Esther Anne & Penthea Burns, Columbia Journal of Race and Law
Truth, Healing, and Change in the Dawnland
January 29, 2021 – Barbara Will and Charlotte Bacon, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Opinion: Making history matter in divided times
December 2nd, 2020 - Maine Initiatives
Racial Justice and Decarceration with Maria Girouard
November 2nd, 2020 - Valerie Vande Panne, NextCity
What Truth and Reconciliation looks like in Practice
November 5th, 2020 - Native News Online
Reflecting on the Maine-Wabanaki Child Welfare TRC 5 Years Later
October 11, 2020 - Michael Martin, NPR
Healing US divides through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
June 19th, 2019 – Jasmeen Wafai, Yes! Magazine
Is it time for Truth and Reconciliation in the US?
May 14, 2019 – Rebecca Goldfine, Bowdoin News
Parts of Campus bring light to Wabanaki History
January 28, 2019 – Alex Lear, The Forecaster
‘It is who we are’: Freeport woman reflects on ‘stolen’ Native American children in new film
December 10, 2018 – Emily Coyne, Maine Campus
Diversity Committee explores Maine-Wabanaki relations
November 7, 2018 – Abaki Beck, Yes! Magazine
Telling the Truth as a Means of Healing
November 6, 2018 – Katherine Locke, Navajo-Hopi Observer
'Dawnland' documents untold story of Native American child removal in the U.S.
November 5, 2018 – Robin Young, WBUR
'Dawnland' Documents Maine's Efforts To Reconcile Indian Child Removal
November 5, 2018 – Sameer Rao, Color Lines
Wabanaki Seek Healing and Justice in 'Dawnland'
April 9th, 2018 - Peri Wallent, The Occidental
REACH Representatives Discuss Wabanaki Visibility and Advocacy
November 21, 2016 – Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, Yes! Magazine
How to Attempt Racial Healing—Even During a Trump Presidency
November 13th, 2016 - Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, Yes! Magazine
White People, Its the Bigots where you live that Need you the Most
April 14, 2016 – Walter Wuthmann, The Forecaster
'Cultural genocide’: Wabanaki commission’s findings preserved in Brunswick
May 5, 2016 - Beth Murphy, Huffington Post
Answering a Mother's Prayer this Mother's Day
April 13, 2016 - Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine
Finally, the U.S. Steps Closer to Racial Healing With a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Jan. 27, 2016 - Genevieve Beck-Roe, American Friends Service Committee Acting in Faith blog
The Maine Wabanaki-State TRC: Healing from historic trauma to create a better future
Dec. 4, 2015 - Cultural Survival Quarter Issue 39-4, Tradition Informing Our Futures (December 2015)
Truth and Reconciliation: The Findings on Wabanaki Child Welfare in the State of Maine
Oct. 12, 2015 - Suzette Brewer, Indian Country Today Media Network
Truth and Reconciliation: The Findings on Wabanaki Child Welfare in the State of Maine
July 7, 2015 - Virginia M. Wright, Down East Magazine, July 2015 edition
Shattered ' Wabanaki People ' Child Welfare System
June 29, 2015 - Mark Kelley, Special to the Bangor Daily News (Opinion)
Maine owes Wabanaki people sovereignty, respect. It's long overdue
June 25, 2015 - Lorie Graham and Kathryn E. Fort, The Hill - Congress Blog - Civil Rights
June 25, 2015 - Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today Media Network
Forced Removal of Native American Children From Parents Exposed in 13 Minutes
June 19, 2015 - Tim Fontaine, CBC News
Maine's Truth and Reconciliation Commission finds 'evidence of cultural genocide'
June 18, 2015 - Special to The Ellsworth American
Wabanaki Truth Commission issues final report
June 14, 2015 - Nick Sambides, Jr., Bangor Daily News
Native Americans' report reveals history of 'cultural genocide' in Maine
June 14, 2015 - gkisedtanamoogk and Carol Wishcamper, Opinion, Portland Press Herald
May 19, 2015 - Producer/Host Donna Loring, WERU 89.9 FM Community Radio
May 1, 2015 - Marcelle Hopkins, Al Jazeera America
'Without our children, what are we'' Maine cited for removing Native kids
May 1, 2015 - Dawn Gagnon, Bangor Daily News
Group calls on LePage to reinstate tribal executive order
April 30, 2015 - Community section
Truth, reconciliation group to host 5 forums
April 23, 2015 - Kathryn Olmstead, Special to the Bangor Daily News
Aroostook County residents work to ally with Wabanaki people
Jan. 29, 2015 - Amy Browne, Host/Producer, WERU FM 89.9 (audio)
Jan. 23, 2015 - Margy Dowzer, Special to the Portland Press Herald
Maine Voices: King's words point to need to address harms to Native Americans
Jan. 19, 2015 - Nick McCrea, Bangor Daily News
Maine tribes remember Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate for all oppressed voices
Dec. 16, 2014 - Hannah Dunphy, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Nov. 27, 2014 - Isaiah Miller of Bangor, Opinion Letter, Bangor Daily News
Nov. 20, 2014 - Kathryn Olmstead, Bangor Daily News
All eyes on Maine as group seeks to make amends for injustices to Indian children
Nov. 16, 2014 - Deborah McDermott, Seacoast Online
Generational Trauma: Healing for Maine's Native Americans
June 26, 2014 - Nell Gluckman, Bangor Daily News
Maine outreach groups to educate, learn stories of incarcerated Native Americans
June 17, 2014 - Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 Blue Hill, 99.9 Bangor
June 9, 2014 - Nell Gluckman, Bangor Daily News
Panelists talk with Maine tribes about trauma of foster care, separation from families
Feb. 10, 2014 - Jenni Parmalee, Member Story, Knox Village Soup
Join in Days of Reflection, Prayer and Meditation for truth and reconciliation, Feb. 10, 18 and 19
Jan. 13, 2014 - Arla Patch and Robert Shetterly, Indian Country Today Media Network
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Tells A Story of Forgiveness
Dec. 3, 2013 - Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today Media Network
Molly Ockett Days Festival Beginning to Truly Honor Native Namesake includes how REACH's Arla Patch helped transform the annual event in Bethel. Article also has photos and a video of the event.
Dec. 4, 2013 - Mario Moretto, Bangor Daily News
Nov. 27, 2013 - The Castine Patriot
Shetterly to speak, display portrait in Castine
Nov. 20, 2013 - WCSH 6 and WLBZ 2 News
Photos from the Opening Ceremony for the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Nov. 10, 2013 - Tim Cox, Bangor Daily News
Wabanaki Truth and Reconciliation commissioners set first visit to tribe, includes an interview with REACH Co-Director Esther Attean
Oct. 28, 2013 - Sandy White Hawk, Indian Country Today Media Network
Baby Veronica & Our Stolen Children: 'Someday, They'll Come Back,' by TRC Commissioner Sandy White Hawk
July 30, 2013 - Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today Media Network
Healing 'Already Happening' in Wabanaki Truth & Reconciliation Process, includes an interview with REACH Co-Director Esther Attean
Nov. 20, 2012 - Anna Bressanin, BBC World News (Video)
Native Americans recall era of forced adoptions, features interviews with REACH's Denise Altvater
Aug. 20, 2012 - Producer/Host Donna Loring, WERU 89.9 FM Community Radio (Audio)
Wabanaki Windows: Update of TRC project and International implications, includes interviews with REACH Co-Director Esther Attean and University of St. Andrews ' Scotland Research Assistant Bennett Collins