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The "disappearance" of the Abenaki in western Maine: political organization and ethnocentric assumptions. The American Indian Quarterly (3/22/1993)
...surprise to most current scholars of the Abenaki. The works of Gordon Day and Colin Calloway...assumed a tribal organization for the Abenaki with each tribe occupying a river drainage...more accurate and useful understanding of Abenaki political organization and migration ...

Supreme Court rejects Abenaki appeal The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (2/23/1993)
...the Vermont Supreme Court denying the Abenaki Indians the right to aboriginal title...Court's decision, which held that the Abenaki do not have any aboriginal rights to any...ready for the funeral yet," countered Abenaki Chief Homer St. Francis. "We have a...

Vt. schools get Abenaki history The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (8/21/1997)
...with a new collection of materials on the Abenaki Indians. Jeffrey Benay, chair of a special...in Swanton, where many of Vermont's Abenaki live, unveiled the new materials at Governor...yesterday. Called "New Dawn: The Western Abenaki," the collection contains materials...

Vermont's Abenaki Fight For Recognition, Heritage; 'Tribe's' Battle With State Raises Issues of Land and Identity The Washington Post (12/8/2002)
To be an Abenaki is to wander the Missisquoi swamp and...centuries after local histories pronounced the Abenaki extinct, their descendants are seeking...reaches of the Champlain Valley. (The Abenaki are deeply split on the questions of casinos...

WE WANT VERMONT ABENAKI CHIEF HOMER ST. FRANCIS MAY NOT TRUST THE COURTS. BUT THAT IS THE BATTLEGROUND FOR HIS PEOPLE'S CLAIM THAT THEY NEVER GAVE UP VERMONT OR PARTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW YORK, QUEBEC, AND NORTHERN MASSACHUSETTS. The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (12/16/1990)
...license plate on his old pickup truck: "Abenaki Chief Missisquoi Nation." The absence...carries in his truck proclaiming that the Abenaki are a sovereign nation and not subject...will not tolerate any more stopping of Abenaki Aboriginals in the process of fishing...

Abenaki youth wins seat in Quebec election.(achievement) Wind Speaker (5/1/2007)
...surprise in store, this time for Aboriginal people, as an Abenaki youth was elected in the northern riding of Abitibi-Est...federal government." Growing up with a French father and Abenaki mother in Val d'Or opened Wawanoloath's eyes to both sides...

ABENAKI FACTIONS GROW FURTHER APART The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (11/3/1987)
SWANTON, Vt. - A rift that has divided Vermont's Abenaki Indians since the election of controversial Chief Homer...protesting a move to remove Joan St. Pierre as president of the Abenaki Self- Help Association, which receives about $200...

AN ABENAKI GATHERS SHARDS OF A SCATTERED HERITAGE.(LIFE & LEISURE) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (2/17/2002)
...Earth, she steps into tradition. An Abenaki, like her father and her uncles who helped...Native America. With fewer than 2,000 Abenaki left in the Northeast, her identity dissolves...to find out who she was. She and three Abenaki women created a monthly meeting called...

HOMER ST. FRANCIS, AT 66; LED REVIVAL OF ABENAKI TRIBE The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (7/10/2001)
...Francis, credited with revitalizing the Abenaki Indian nation in Vermont after it had...the St. Francis-Sokoki Band of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi from 1974 to 1980...arrived; today, about 4,000 people claim Abenaki blood. "He put the nation back on the...

Mergers & acquisitions. (Rodale Press Inc. purchases Abenaki Publishers Inc.; National Trade Publications Inc. buys Cleanfax periodical from Cleanfax Publications Inc.)(Brief Article) Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management (9/1/1997)
* Rodale Press acquired Bennington, Vermont-based Abenaki Publishers Inc. in May. Abenaki publishes American Angler, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Fly Tyer and Warmwater Fly Fishing. * Latham, New York-based National Trade Publications, Inc...

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