"At the Gathering Place"
"I remember the day the decision came in to the tribal office. I remember seeing those little words typed on paper: the judges on the Vermont Supreme Court decided that Abenaki aborginal title had been 'extinguished. . .by the increasing weight of history.'" (227)
"It's no wonder that for those few Abenaki people who have access to academia, the bulk of us have chosen to pursue an understanding of words, and to almost obsessively comprehend the work, and the "weight," of history." (228)
American Indian Literary Nationalism
Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack and Robert Warrior
Forward by Simon J. Ortiz
Afterword by Lisa Brooks
"An Interactive Text-Map"
"Because awikhigawôgan, like storytelling, is an interactive process, I invite the reader of this text-map to play a participatory role. Rather than tracking a single argument and forming agreement or argument, I hope you will feel free to interact, deliberate, and grapple with the images and ideas raised herein, stopping at the ends of quotations, sections, and chapters to contemplate the connections between them." (xxv)
"Long before I ever thought of writing such a book, I learned a great deal from working in the tribal office of the Abenaki Nation at Missisquoi. . .In the tribal office, we were embroiled every day in legal cases involving issues ranging from fishing rights to tribal license plates to the protection of burials and family hunting lands. I learned as much from conversations over late-night coffee as I did in the courts, not to mention what I learned while slogging through the marshes looking for tracks that would stop development from eradicating subsistence grounds and sacred sites. That was also when I first fully grasped the power of words." (xlv)
The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
"How do we write about the myriad, complex ways in which war enters into a community and into Indigenous homelands? This chapter explores the multiple possible answers. . .The chapter makes no attempt to encompass or balance all viewpoints, but rather seeks to evoke the experience of the storm of war as it spirals through the land, using Indigenous frameworks for interpretation." (140)
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War
related website: https://ourbelovedkin.com/awikhigan/index
geo-politically related Language Keeper: Jessie Little Doe Baird
We Still Live Here (film information and teaching guides)
"I remember the day the decision came in to the tribal office. I remember seeing those little words typed on paper: the judges on the Vermont Supreme Court decided that Abenaki aborginal title had been 'extinguished. . .by the increasing weight of history.'" (227)
"It's no wonder that for those few Abenaki people who have access to academia, the bulk of us have chosen to pursue an understanding of words, and to almost obsessively comprehend the work, and the "weight," of history." (228)
American Indian Literary Nationalism
Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack and Robert Warrior
Forward by Simon J. Ortiz
Afterword by Lisa Brooks
"An Interactive Text-Map"
"Because awikhigawôgan, like storytelling, is an interactive process, I invite the reader of this text-map to play a participatory role. Rather than tracking a single argument and forming agreement or argument, I hope you will feel free to interact, deliberate, and grapple with the images and ideas raised herein, stopping at the ends of quotations, sections, and chapters to contemplate the connections between them." (xxv)
"Long before I ever thought of writing such a book, I learned a great deal from working in the tribal office of the Abenaki Nation at Missisquoi. . .In the tribal office, we were embroiled every day in legal cases involving issues ranging from fishing rights to tribal license plates to the protection of burials and family hunting lands. I learned as much from conversations over late-night coffee as I did in the courts, not to mention what I learned while slogging through the marshes looking for tracks that would stop development from eradicating subsistence grounds and sacred sites. That was also when I first fully grasped the power of words." (xlv)
The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
"How do we write about the myriad, complex ways in which war enters into a community and into Indigenous homelands? This chapter explores the multiple possible answers. . .The chapter makes no attempt to encompass or balance all viewpoints, but rather seeks to evoke the experience of the storm of war as it spirals through the land, using Indigenous frameworks for interpretation." (140)
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War
related website: https://ourbelovedkin.com/awikhigan/index
geo-politically related Language Keeper: Jessie Little Doe Baird
We Still Live Here (film information and teaching guides)
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