The Impact of 500 Years of Colonialism on the Abenaki and Wabanaki People with Anne Jennison
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Natick Historical Society
The “People of the Dawnland” (Abenaki/Wabanaki) of New Hampshire and the Northeast are the first Indigenous peoples in North America to have had contact with Europeans. In this presentation, Anne Jennison examines how European colonization of North America impacted generations of Abenaki/Wabanaki people and highlights the ways in which the Abenaki/Wabanaki peoples have acted as agents of their own change through education, self-advocacy, and efforts to revitalize their languages and traditional arts, as well as by working with archeologists, anthropologists, and scientists to recover and reveal more about their history and traditional knowledge.
This program is offered in collaboration with the Bacon Free Library, the Groton Public Library, and the Natick Historical Society.