Signs of Abenaki Life
This time last year I was getting ready to set up an Endangered Alphabets carving exhibition in the Vermont State House–an exhibition whose flagship carving was this tribute to the Native people of the region, the Abenaki. It says “People of the Dawn Lands”–the Abenaki name for themselves–in Abenaki.
A lot has happened since then. There is now a permanent exhibition in the State House educating visitors about the Abenaki; there is an annual Abenaki week in May; Columbus Day has been renamed Indigenous Peoples Day; and the illustrated Abenaki school dictionary, co-produced by the Endangered Alphabets Project and the Abenaki Circle of Courage youth group, is now printed and ready for use.
Heaven knows, there’s a lot of bad history to undo. But surely there are also reasons to be hopeful.
This carving now hangs in the office of the Lieutenant-Governor, David Zuckerman.
January 22, 2020 @ 5:49 pm
As a calligrapher, I applaud your efforts on this grand global project.
I still have not located the ‘ price ‘ of you book on the websites.
Please inform me of the price and cost of S & H.
Thank you.
ps. I would love to see ‘ some ‘ of your scripts much larger in size
( dimensions ) incised into the wood : )