| © 2009 Vermont Indigenous Celebration |
| Vermont Indigenous Celebration |
| July 9-12,2009 Burlington, Vt. |
| The Vermont Indigenous Celebration Abenaki Film Festival (More coming soon!) |
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| Changeling: a tale of Lake Champlain, 1774 A young Abenaki chief in 1774 loses his family in an attack and attempts to redress his loss by taking a young white girl prisoner. She, too, is without a family, for very different reasons. What they discover surprises both of them. Watch Changeling Trailer |
| The Lake Before Champlain Stories about 'Lost Races' are usually labeled and then dismissed as "Fantastic Archeology" but a surprising new discovery along a high beach terrace of the ancient Champlain Sea has introduced an unknown chapter in the history of Ice Age America. It suggests that an early and sophisticated Native culture once existed in the Northeast that researchers are just beginning to recognize. The lives that these ancient peoples lived were far different from the anthropological models that scientists developed for the Paleo-Indian and the implications of the new discoveries reach through the entire history of Eastern Native civilization to our own time. This program chronicles the long and careful process that has unfolded one of the great archeological mysteries of North America. |
| 1609: The Other Side of History The Incredible complexity of the little-known Native and European material cultures that complemented and blended with each other in the summer of 1609. The complete clothing, transportation, navigation, and martial artifact systems that permitted sixty Native Alliance and French warriors to overcome a vastly superior Iroquois army.. Download Poster |
| From Calumet to Catastrophe: and Back. Come Join the Missisquoi Abenaki "Circle of Courage" youth group as they explore the history of tobacco in Native American culture, from the ancient ceremonial use of the herb as sacrament in the Wabanaki pipe ceremony -- to its unfortunate use as a recreational drug today. The Abenaki ancestors enshrined the ancient pipe ceremony in a dance of remembrance called the “Calumet Dance,” as well as small ceremonies of permission and thanksgiving before drumming and singing; so that their modern descendents understand the true meaning of tobacco. Elders also teach the young in the dancers of disrespecting this ancient ceremonial herb. In this Abenaki-produced video, the “Circle of Courage” children make the case through dance, song and interview for respectful rather than offhand use of tobacco, not only as a way of preserving health, but as a way of preserving culture. |
