"It sucks you dry because you're thinking about it all the time," said Chief Shirly Hook of the Koasek Traditional Band of the Koas Abenaki Nation in Vermont. "They keep on pounding us." ...

"Our nation faces a great injustice," Rick O'Bomsawin, chief of the Abenaki of Odanak, told the United Nations floor last week. "Who has the right to say who your people are? My nation is strong.

At a March 5 public hearing on the bill, Don Stevens, chief of the Vermont-recognized Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, argued the status of state recognition qualified him to make ...

An “historic” meeting between the Abenaki Nation and the Vermont state legislature marked a significant step in the ‘pretendian’ saga that has unfolded in the state over the last 15 years.

Bishop’s University opens a space for Indigenous reconciliation and community By William Crooks Local Journalism Initiative On March 21, 2025, Bishop’s University marked a momentous occasion with the ...

Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan group ... speaks during a public meeting about the four groups recognized as Abenaki by the state at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, Feb.