•  We have been learning traditional basket making and other Abenaki crafts through a grant from the New Hampshire Arts Council.

•  We have worked closely with community Elders and other members to create HIV/AIDS training materials that are culturally relevant for our people through a grant from the Dartmouth Family Aids program. This project challenged our community on many levels; it caused us to really examine how our culture could address the needs of prevention for this deadly disease.

•  We have worked with New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) to create and deliver staff training on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and to create methods for DCYF to voluntarily provide the same protections to Abenaki children.

The Abenaki people have slowly been coming out of the shadows in New Hampshire . Our People have learned to be “invisible in plain sight” for many generations. We were first in contact with European visitors five hundred years ago. Because of that long contact and our position on the boundaries of both the French and English settlement territories and our own unique social-political structure which is rather decentralized and the very real dangers our survival presented, we have quietly held our identity for a long time. Now more and more of our People are stepping out and bringing forward pieces of our culture they have held onto within their family groups. Many of us are reaching out to Odanak in Quebec , an Abenaki reservation where there are a few speakers of the language and other resources such as an excellent museum.

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