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. […]
What a pleasure and a privilege to deliver the latest of my Abenaki carvings to Shirly Hook, one of the Council of Chiefs of the Koasek Traditional Band of the Koas Abenaki Nation. This is the fifth carving I’ve done and donated to the Abenaki people, whose language is one of the most endangered in […]
Today, August 9, is Indigenous Peoples Day. The Endangered Alphabets Project works to support indigenous peoples all round the world, but I must confess that for the first few years of the project I knew nothing about the indigenous peoples living right here around me. (I was going to write “In my own back yard,” […]
This afternoon it was my pleasure and privilege to present a carving of “We are still here” in Abenaki to Tom Beck on behalf of the Nulhegan Band at their cultural center in beautiful Barnet, Vermont. Tom was also kind enough to show us the remarkable garden of endangered and heirloom vegetables being grown from […]
