Emotions were running high Tuesday morning at a press conference held by Vermont's Abenaki chiefs in Burlington in advance of an event at the University of Vermont on Thursday, where the Abenakis ...

Alex Strand is currently a student in David Massell’s North American Indian History class. She began reporting for this piece in the fall of 2024, prior to becoming Massell’s student.  Almost three ...

The chief of the Abenaki of Odanak is celebrating a victory in his nation's campaign against state-recognized tribes in New England, many of which he says are illegitimate. In a news release ...

Nowhere is this failure more evident than in the state’s handling of Abenaki identity. It is long past time to reject the fraudulent claims of Vermont’s state-recognized “Abenaki” and to ...

Don Stevens, leader of the Vermont-recognized Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, drops tobacco onto a drum at an Indigenous Peoples Day event in 2021. A bill in the New Hampshire House ...