PERFORMANCES OF ABENAKI SONGS & STORIES
(partial list out of more than 180 to date)
Elementary and Secondary Schools:
Edwards Public Library, Southampton, MA.
Fayerweather Elementary School, Cambridge, MA.
Haggerty School, Cambridge, MA.
Jacob Edwards Library, Southbridge, MA.
Jackson Street Elementary School, Northampton, MA.
Missisquoi Valley High School, Swanton, VT.
North Conway Elementary School, North Conway, NH.
Putney Central School, Putney, VT.
Souhegan High School, Amherst, NH.
Williamsburg Elementary School, Williamsburg, MA.
Museums:
Brookside Museum, Saratoga County Historical Society, Ballston Spa, NY.
Fort at Number Four, Charlestown, NH.
Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA.
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, CT.
Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA.
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA.
Rogers Island Visitor’s Center, Fort Edward, NY.
Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner, NH.
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA.
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MA.
Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA.
Storytelling Festivals:
"Corn Island Storytelling Festival.” Louisville, KY.
"Keepers of the Word Storytelling Festival.” Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
"Nudat’logun.” Institute for American Indian Studies, Washington, CT.
“Three Apples Storytelling Festival.” Harvard, MA.
“Washington Storyellers’ Theater.” Washington, DC.
Other Events:
Blue Mountain Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY.
Café Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY.”Adirondack Women’s Conference.”
Country Dance and Song Society, Leeds, MA.”Pinewoods Folk Music Camp.”
Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT.”Abenaki Heritage Festival.”
Mohegan Tribal Nation, Uncasville, CT.”Cultural Heritage Week.”
Rowe Conference Center, Rowe, MA.”Green Nations Gathering.”
INVITED SPEAKER FOR SPECIAL EVENTS
(partial list out of more than 80 to date)
2009.
• "Comfortably Well-off for Indians: Native Families in Deerfield in the 19th Century." "Close Encounters: Interpreting Native Homelands in the Connecticut River Valley" lecture series at Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA.
• "Algonkian Indian Influences on Yankee Foodways." "The Natural History of Food" lecture series at the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
2008.
• "The Indians of Indian Lake." Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY.
• "Hear the Women: A Sharing of History and Continuance of Our Culture." Gedakina and Penobscot Nation, Indian Island, ME.
• “Native Oral Traditions and Connections to Place.” Keynote speaker for “Diversity Residency.” Empire State College, White Plains, NY.
• “Odzihozo: Abenaki Stories of Place.” Department of Anthropology, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH.
2007.
• "Malian’s Song." Vermont Librarians’ Conference. Vermont Library Association, Burlington, VT.
2006.
• "Native Voices, Native Homelands: Native American Poetry, Readings and Discussion." Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• "Abenakis at Ashuelot: the Sadoques Family and Keene." Historical Society of Cheshire County, Keene, NH.
2005.
• "Voices of a Peoples’ History: Readings from Howard Zinn." Western Massachusetts Jobs for Justice. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
• "Welcome to Ndakinna." Keynote, Student Orientation Day. School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT.
2004.
• "Walking Tour of Pocumtuck Homeland in Deerfield." "Massachusetts Archaeology Month." Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA.
2003.
• "Thanks for the Memories: Thanksgiving Myths and Realities." Diversity Commission. Keene State College, Keene, NH.
2001.
• "The Role of Storytelling in Northeastern Native America." National Storytelling Association Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI.
• "Manigebeskwa: Stories of Powerful Algonkian Women." Women’s Herbal Conference, Peterborough, NH.
• "Decorated With Wampum, Blanketed with Wool: Native Uses of Trade Goods.” American Textile Museum, Lowell, MA.
1999.
• "Field School in Archaeology." Guest Speaker for Anthropology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
• "Hiding in Plain Sight: Native Adaptation and Survival in New England." New England Native American Institute, Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA.
1998
• "Welcoming Strangers, Greeting Friends.” "Many Views From the Shore." Five College Education Conference, Beverly, MA.
• "Native American Stories." "Otelia Cromwell Day" symposium at Smith College, Northampton, MA.
1997.
• "Living History: Stories from Native American and Settler Interactions." "Hudson Valley Storytelling Festival "at Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY.
MEDIA PERFORMANCES & INTERVIEWS
(partial list out of more than 50 newspaper, radio, tv, & film interviews to date)
2009.
• "Series Explores How What We Eat Now Is Linked To Our Past." Interview with Steve Grant, The Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT. Accessed May 1, 2009 on-line at: <http://www.courant.com/features/food/hc-foodhistory.art0feb05,0,6153856.story>.
• "Anadabijou’s Dream/Champlain’s Encounter." Script writing and performance for Queen City Radio Hour, produced by Jay Craven for Vermont Public Radio, Burlington, VT. Accessed May 1, 2009 on-line at: <http://www.vpr.net/episode/45473/>
2008.
• Abenaki scholar and consultant for The Forgotten War: The Struggle for North America. Documentary for Mountain Lake Public Broadcasting, Plattsburgh, NY.
• Abenaki scholar and storyteller for Champlain: The Lake Between.
Documentary produced by Caro Thompson for Vermont Public Television,
Burlington, VT.
• "Native American Heritage, Identity Examined at Symposium" by Danielle Dreilinger. Vol.
12, no. 7 of the The University Reporter, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. On-line at: <http://www.umb.edu/news/2008news/reporter/march_reporter.pdf>.
• Musical recording, "Abenaki Greeting Song @ MHC's Focus the Nation" on Youtube, January 31, 2008. On-line at <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DTTCYupRTw>.
• Musical recording on "VT Edition Interview: Jeanne Brink & Ellen Lutz on preserving the Abenaki language" by producer Jane Lindholm. Vermont Public Radio, January 30, 2008. On-line at: <http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79143/>.
• Interview for "Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond" by producer Dr. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. WESU radio, Middletown, CT, January 29, 2008, on-line at: <http://www.indigenouspolitics.com>.
2006.
• Review of Malian's Song by Simon Rodberg for the New York Times Books Review on-line at: <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/books/review/13children.html>. August 13, 2006.
• Review of Malian's Song by Ethan Dezotelle for the County Courier on-line at: <http://www.thecountycourier.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3304>. September 1, 2006
• Interview for "Saving Stories of Those Erased from History" by producer Revan Schendler for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA. "Talking Portraits: A Series of Oral Histories About Northampton," August 30, 2004.
2004.
• Historical consultant and guest speaker for "Captive Lands, Captive Hearts" radio series by producer Susannah Lee. WFCR radio, Amherst, MA. On-line at Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA: <http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/voices/wfcr.do>.
2003.
• Featured storyteller for "Awesome Forces: The Creation of Lake Champlain" IMAX film installation. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, VT.
• Historical consultant and guest speaker for “History on the Connecticut River” by producer Caro Thompson, for Vermont Public Television, Burlington, VT.
• Interview for "First Voice: Squaw" by producer Carol Morin for CBC Radio One "Sounds Like Canada", Canadian Broadcasting Company.
2001.
• Author interview "1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving" for C-Span Book TV.
• Subject of article "I Still Live: the Survival of New England’s Native Tribes" by Howard Mansfield for Yankee Magazine, Dublin, NH, November 2001.
• Featured storyteller for "Adirondack Storytellers" film for WMHT TV, Schenectady, NY.
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES AND PLAYS
2002.
• “Northeastern American Indian History and Dance Traditions.” Artist
in Residence at Pinewoods Folk Music Camp, Country Dance and Song
Society, Plymouth, MA.
2001.
• “Giving Thanks.” Artist in residence for role of “Nana” in
three-person play, directed by Elizabeth Theobald. Mashantucket Pequot
Museum and Research Center, Ledyard, CT.
1999.
• “Molly Has Her Say: Recovering Histories of Abenaki Indian Women.”
Playwright, director, and lead for two person play. The Littleton Opera
House, Littleton, NH.
• “Molly Has Her Say: Abenaki Indian Women.” Playwright, director, and
lead for two person play. Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter
School, Hadley, MA.
• “Molly Has Her Say: Abenaki Indian Women.” Playwright, director, and
lead for two person play. Mendenhall Center for Performing Arts, Smith
College, Northampton, MA.
1998.
• “Staging the Indian.” Playwright, director and lead for two person
play. Five College Word Festival at Mount Holyoke College, South
Hadley, MA.
NOTE: See additional listings under "Hand in Hand Venues," "Academic Resume," "Publications," "Conference Presentations," "Teacher Workshops," and "Upcoming Events".
