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	<description>a space for the exploration of LD291 and its implementation</description>
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		<title>Great Statement from Brenda Commander</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 16, the Brunswick Times Record reprinted an address by Maliseet Chief Brenda Commander to President Obama and the Tribal Nations Conference. Click here to read &#8220;A Maliseet Chief&#8217;s Plea to President Obama.&#8221; These are stirring words, simply spoken, that go the heart of LD 291&#8217;s intention.  Plea is not the right word for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell your librarian&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[not to purchase Richard Peck&#8217;s new book, A Season of Gifts.  Why?  Read this review from American Indians in Children&#8217;s Literature.
I know that all over the country adults will buy the book because kids will love it. As I wrote to an upset director of a children&#8217;s game program last week, just because kids love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeland &#8211; a resource to purchase</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LD291]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the media resources identified for middle and high school Native studies in Maine&#8217;s Wabanaki Studies &#8211; Suggested Curriculum Integration is a DVD (or video) called Homeland - Four Portraits of Native Action.  It was a new resource to me (how I did I miss it?), so I have checked it out &#8211; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning about respectful relations</title>
		<link>http://wabquest.edublogs.org/2009/10/06/learning-about-respectful-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
&#8220;One way to remain an indigenous person within a rapidly changing world is to uphold the philosophy, or spirit, of the teachings of our elders and ancestors. The ancestors provided a moral code, a way of living, and ways of interpreting and relating to the rest of the universe. This philosophy was not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wabanaki Connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LD291]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to remind Maine&#8217;s teachers, at all levels, of Joseph Carnley&#8217;s invaluable resource, Wabanaki Connections.
You will find here announcements of upcoming events that support LD291 implementation and Native Studies.  But you can also use the archive of postings to create your own network of digital and face-to-face resources.
We are lucky to have Joseph. Support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctrine of Discovery</title>
		<link>http://wabquest.edublogs.org/2009/08/01/doctrine-of-discovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Cabot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Micmac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are like me, your knowledge of Henry VII and John Cabot&#8217;s charter to explore and claim New World lands is a little fuzzy. Thanks to John Dieffenbacher-Krall (Executive Director of MITSC) for sharing this history we all should know.  Quotes are from John&#8217;s email to me of 7-30-2009 and a sermon he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heads Up &#8211; Penobscot Athletes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[LD291]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sockalexis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Maine teachers, we sometimes struggles to find powerful ways to lead students to an understanding of the place of the Wabanakis in recent and contemporary Maine history and culture. Yet another opportunity has just appeared.
If we are really teaching Argument and Persuasion in language arts and history, why not tackle this:
In case you missed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Indians ate &#8211; or eat?</title>
		<link>http://wabquest.edublogs.org/2009/05/06/what-the-indians-ate-or-eat-or-shame-on-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pedagogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Down East Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerry Hardy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seasonal migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subsistance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What the Indians ate is the title of an article in the current (June, 2009) issue of Down East magazine. The first page was slipped mysteriously into my mailbox today and, luckily, I had the perseverance to track that gift down. The article is taken from a new book, Notes on a Lost Flute: A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sovereignty: Micmac Victory and Turmoil</title>
		<link>http://wabquest.edublogs.org/2009/05/06/sovereignty-micmac-victory-and-turmoil/</link>
		<comments>http://wabquest.edublogs.org/2009/05/06/sovereignty-micmac-victory-and-turmoil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 18:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LD291]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tribal government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think for a moment about governments in distress, globally. There are contested elections, civil wars, usurpations of power,  repressed and unrepresented populations, revolutions, invasions, rampant fraud, tyrannical leaders, cartels and pirates.  Within Maine itself, tribal-state relations have, over the last year, come unraveled, a situation  documented in MITSC&#8217;s archive of News.
The turmoil of nationhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Original Free &amp; Independent Existence</title>
		<link>http://wabquest.edublogs.org/2009/05/05/original-free-independent-existence/</link>
		<comments>http://wabquest.edublogs.org/2009/05/05/original-free-independent-existence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LD291]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like the phrase &#8220;original free and independent existence.&#8221; It comes from a lucid essay by Steven Newcomb, appearing in the May 1, 2009, Indian Country Today (On Non-Indian, Anti-Indian Law).
Newcomb does not discuss specific laws, such as the one I looked at in my last post. He does not propose new laws or suggest [...]]]></description>
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