U & D

Resources come in surprising places. I would not have thought that the federal government and an independent Native organization could come together smoothly in providing quality, and needed, resources.
Then today I received my free copy of Lessons of Our Land, the k-college curriculum created by the Indian Land Tenure Foundation and the Tribal Education Departments [...]

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If you are not aware of Indigenous Voices, a monthly talk radio show focused on Maine Native topics, check it out today. On 8/19/08, the show dialogued with Penobscot Nation Tribal Chief Kirk Francis. This interview contains a terrific overview of tribal government and its process. Chief Francis discusses the Penobscot sovereign status, a [...]

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It was just a matter of time before YouTube and Google Video became LD291 resources. Give them a look (you won’t be able to do this from your Maine school, probably):

Go to YouTube and enter “Wabanaki” into the video search window. What you will find is a wonderful set of audio files from [...]

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There have been at least three specific recent events that illustrate the complex issue of Native sovereignty in Maine: the ongoing debate over the proposed LNG facililty at Sipayik / Split Rock on the Pleasant Point reservation; the meeting between Penobscot (and other) tribal leaders with Tribal officials from Venezuela; and the participation of the [...]

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Tracing history through its tellings can be more compelling, and more instructive, than reading it in a text or on Wikipedia.

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The summer issue of American Indian, the member’s publication of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, highlights Theresa Secord (Penobscot) on page 32. They include a photo of her and of her great-grandmother and teacher, Philomene Nelson. Theresa was a founder of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance. In the article, she [...]

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This weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is screening Native American films. Highlighted are the documentary films of Alanis Obomsawin, Abanaki, originally from New Hampshire. In Quebec, there is a year-long “First Nations” program, organized as part of the celebration of 400 years of history. Her documentaries are also being shown in New [...]

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You will find a new tab in the header of this page: Essentials: Short Version. I have removed the outdated Maine Learning Results from the full document and formatted the important Essential Understandings and Essential Questions so that they can easily be copied & used in lesson planning, grant requests, classroom posters, argument and [...]

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