A Sampling of Recent Performances and Programs, 2008-2010
A SELECTION OF UPCOMING EVENTS
NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC & STORYTELLING PERFORMANCES 2010
• March 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28: “Sogaliskisos - Maple Sugaring Traditions" and "Talk With the Indian Doctress.” 11 am, 1:30 pm, and 2:30 pm performances at Old Sturbridge Village Museum, Sturbridge, MA. For more info, see http://www.osv.org/activities_events/events.html
INVITED SPEAKER FOR SYMPOSIA & SPECIAL LECTURES 2010
• March 16:"Broken Chains of Custody: Possessing, Dispossessing, and Repossessing Lost Wampum." 5 pm at Beach Hall 404, Anthropology Department Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. For more info, see http://www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/Events.php
• March 26: "Constructing Indigenous Associations for NAGPRA Compliance." Panel discussion on NAGPRA history and policy at the Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
• April 17:"Indian Doctors & Doctresses in 19th century Western Massachusetts." 7:30 pm, Montgomery Historical Society, Town Hall, Montgomery Center, MA.
• May 1:"Welcome to Ndakinna." 10:00 am, opening for "Connecting the World in Community," School for International Training event at the Latchis Theater, Brattleboro, VT.
• July 5: "Venison and Potato Chips: Native Foodways of the Adirondacks." 7:30 pm. "Let's Eat! Adirondack Food Traditions" at the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY. For more info, see http://www.adkmuseum.org/exhibits_and_events/special_events/
A SELECTION OF RECENT EVENTS
NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AND STORYTELLING PERFORMANCES 2009
• November 26-28, 2009: “Algonkian Traditions of Giving Thanks.” Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA. • October 3-4, 2009: "The Dawnland Singers." Saratoga Native American Festival, Saratoga Spa State Park, Saratoga Springs, NY. • July 11-12, 2009: "Hand in Hand." Champlain Quadricentennial Celebration, Burlington, VT.
• May 8, 2009: "Abenaki Oral Traditions." Putney Central School, Putney, VT. 2008 • October 12, 2008: “Abenaki Songs and Stories of Waterways.” “Maritime Storytelling
Festival.” Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT • August 2, 2008: “Abenaki Songs, Stories, and Dances.” Champlain Valley Folk
Festival, Kingsland Bay State Park, Ferrisburgh, VT.
• June 22, 2008: “W’Abenaki Dancers.” Vermont History Expo, Tunbridge Fairgrounds, VT.
• July 14 and August 11, 2008: “Native Songs and Stories of the Connecticut River Valley.”
Elder Hostel at Historic Deerfield, Deerfield,
MA.
INVITED SPEAKER FOR ACADEMIC SYMPOSIA & COLLOQUIA 2009 • November 17, 2009: “Vanishing Indians: Anthropological Acts of Possession and Dispossession in the early 20th Century.” Invited speaker at Smith College, Northampton, MA. • October 21, 2009: “Indigenous People and the Environment.” Invited speaker for symposium at the University of Connecticut at Avery Point, Groton, CT. • March 5-6, 2009: “Indian Lake is the Scene You Should Make: Emma Camp Mead, Indian Doctor/Entrepreneur/ Activist/Fashion Plate.” Invited speaker for “Native American History: Current and Future Directions” symposium in honor of Neal Salisbury at Smith College, Northampton, MA. • January 11, 2009: "On Nature's Own Terms: Indigenizing Environmental Relations.” Keynote speaker for Masters in Environmental Business Administration Program at Marlboro College, Brattleboro, VT. 2008 • November 17, 2008: “Algonkian Stories and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge.” Invited speaker for Mary Tefft White Cultural Center lecture series at Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI. • April 18, 2008: “Questioning the New Public Paradigm: Views on Civic Engagement from Four Public Disciplines.” Invited speaker for “Public Anthropology Roundtable” for the Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium at Tufts University, Medford, MA. • April 7 and 8, 2008: "Native People in the Adirondacks: Ancient Places and Hidden Histories.” Invited speaker for departments of Anthropology, Sociology, Folklore, and Linguistics at Labrador Institute and Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada. • February 12, 2008: “Engaging Indigenous Critiques: Reconsidering Race, Gender and Politics in New England Native History” panel. Invited speaker for panel hosted by Plimoth Plantation and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS FOR SPECIAL EVENTS 2009
• September 1, 2009: “Welcome to Ndakinna.” Keynote speaker for School for International Training Commencement, Brattleboro, VT.
• July
19-24, 2009. Writer in Residence for Wabanaki Youth Writers' Camp,
sponsored by the Maine Writers' Guild and Penobscot Nation, Oldtown, ME. 2008 • August 23, 2008: “The Indian Doctress Meets the Yankee Physician.”
Invited speaker for the Silsby Free Public Library at Fort Number 4,
Charlestown, NH.
• June 4, 2008: “Hear the Women: A Sharing of History and Continuance of Our
Culture.” Invited speaker for Gedakina and Penobscot Nation, Indian
Island, ME.
• May 2, 2008: “Hiding in Plain Sight: the Abenaki in Vermont.” Invited
speaker for Vermont Librarians’ Conference, Vermont Library
Association, Stowe, VT. • March 22, 2008: “Continuing Algonkian Histories.” Invited speaker for “Continuing
Histories” at the Ndakinna Education Center, Greenfield Center, NY.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS FOR K-12 TEACHERS: 2009
• December 11, 2009: “Cultural Perceptions and Misconceptions in Understanding Native Peoples." Workshop for "Native American & European Interactions: Rethinking Early American History," West Somerville School and Primary Source Institute, Reading, MA. 2008 • July 15, 2008: “Native Americans in Colonial New England.” Workshop for “Massachusetts History (1620-1812) for Elementary Schools.”
Coolidge Middle School and Primary Source Institute, Reading, MA.
• July 14, 2008: “The Indian Doctor.” Performance and workshop for
“Citizenship, Property, Identity, and Representation: the Historical
Journey of Southern New England’s Native Peoples,” American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA. • April 12, 2008: “Native Oral Traditions and Connections to Place.”
Keynote speaker for “Hudson River Diversity Residency.” Empire State
College, White Plains, NY.
This list will be updated as more information becomes available.
Contact Marge Bruchac by phone at (413) 584-2195 or by email at maligeet@earthlink.net.
