Wabanaki History, Ecology, and Experiences
Resource List (this list is just a brief starting place—many of the websites listed below include resource lists, and the Cook Library has additional resources)
Closer to home
Books
- Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War.
- Caduto, Michael J. A Time Before New Hampshire. The Story of a Land and Native Peoples.
- Heald, Bruce D. A History of the New Hampshire Abenaki.
- Heywood, Joyce Chicklas. Woven Through the Sweetgrass: Memories of a New England Abenaki Family.
- Masta, Henry Lorne. Abenaki Indian Legends, Grammar and Place Names.
- McBride, Bunny. Women of the Dawn.
- Savageau, Cheryl. Dirt Road Home.
- Savageau, Cheryl. Mother/Land.
- Savageau, Cheryl. Out of the Crazywoods.
- Senier, Siobhan, ed. Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England.
Websites/Media
- Abenaki History
- Dawnland Signals radio show
- Dawnland Voices 2.0: Indigenous Writing from New England and the Northeast
- Indigenous New Hampshire Collaborative Collective
- NH Commission on Native American Affairs website & Facebook page
- Our Beloved Kin: Remapping a New History of King Philip’s War
- UNH Native and Indigenous Studies Minor
- Wabanaki REACH from Wabanaki REACH: Resources for Truth, Healing and Change in Wabanaki Territory (videos/films, articles, books)
- Western Abenaki language dictionary
Museums
- Abbe Museum
- Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
- Ndakinna Education Center
- Strawberry Banke: People of the Dawnland exhibit
Two-Eyed Seeing
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass.
- “Two-Eyed Seeing: Amplifying Indigenous Knowledges and Sovereignty in Research and Communication: Learning from the land as a pathway to pluralism”; presentation by Dr. Andrea Reid, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia.
- “Two-Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management; abstract.
For Kids
- Bruchac, Joseph. Found.
- Bruchac, Joseph. Rez Dogs.
- Greenlaw, Suzanne, Gabriel Frey, and Nancy Baker. The First Blade of Sweetgrass.
- Perrow, Angeli, and Heather Austin. Many Hands: A Penobscot Indian Story.
- Savageau, Cheryl, and Robert Hynes. Muskrat Will Be Swimming.
Larger context
Books
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.
- Treuer, David. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.