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CELEBRATE THE ABENAKI
; ...all-encompassing. One of the tribes left out is the Abenaki, a people indigenous to northern Vermont...tribal headquarters in Swanton, it contains Abenaki cultural objects collected over 15 years...years the official state line was that the Abenaki people had vanished around 1790, "the...
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ANCIENT ABENAKI POT FOUND IN LAKE CHAMPLAIN
; Ojibwe News, The 05-30-1997 ANCIENT ABENAKI POT FOUND IN LAKE CHAMPLAIN Two Vermont divers have found an ancient Abenaki pot in Lake Champlain. William Jennison of Johnson and David Knight of Jeffersonville found the pot in about 50 feet of water...
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Vermont's Abenaki Fight For Recognition, Heritage; 'Tribe's' Battle With State Raises Issues of Land and Identity
; To be an Abenaki is to wander the Missisquoi swamp and...my identity?" The St. Francis band of Abenakis are wanderers in history, a tribe nearly...centuries after local histories pronounced the Abenaki extinct, their descendants are seeking...
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Birth of a Nation? The latest skirmish in the battle for Abenaki tribal status
; The Abenaki Tribal Museum, the "official" historical record of the Abenaki people, resides in the waiting room of an old bus...Vermont's first residents. April Rushlow, chief of the Abenaki Nation at Missisquoi, is kind enough to also walk...
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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.
; ...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...
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Abenaki vow to continue fight for recognition
; Ojibwe News, The 11-18-2005 The head of the Abenaki Indians living in Vermont said Monday...April St Francis Merrill, chief of the Abenaki Nation Missisquoi Sokoki band, said the...attorney general's office has questioned the Abenaki's heritage in Vermont and has argued that...
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HOMER ST. FRANCIS, AT 66; LED REVIVAL OF ABENAKI TRIBE
; ...Francis, credited with revitalizing the Abenaki Indian nation in Vermont after it had...of 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...
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Abenaki reach for recognition
; ...shadows and 30 years of struggle, the Abenaki of Vermont hope this will be the year...program of involuntary sterilization. The Abenaki now claim 3,000 adherents in northern...during his last term he not only opposed Abenaki recognition, he endorsed national legislation...
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Abenaki Burial Site Still Threatened
; ...Country Today (Lakota Times) 10-25-2000 Abenaki burial site still threatened By Jim Adams...digging in a major burial ground, the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi is trying to force...site that yielded the bones of 30 to 40 Abenaki earlier this year. The land around Monument...
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Vt. high court rules against tribe Abenaki say rights illegally severed
; ...Vermont's Supreme Court yesterday denied the Abenaki Nation of the Missisquoi the right to...title and unrestricted use of what the Abenaki claimed are their ancestral lands in northwestern...remove any doubt that extinguishment of Abenaki rights was complete by 1791." Abenaki...
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