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  1. DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] ·

    Upcoming #WabanakiStudies Webinars for 2026

    "The #Wabanaki Studies Webinars are back for the spring and we're excited to see and learn from Wabanaki citizens doing such meaningful work. This is a great opportunity to learn more about our cultures, histories, and sovereignty from experts across our homelands.

    The webinars are free and open to the public.

    - Jan 21- #BrianneLolar - Wabanaki Studies in 2026 [already passed]
    - January 28- #KayaLolar & #SagePhillips - Wabanaki Youth & Policy
    - Feb 4 - #RogerPaul
    - February 11 - #SuzanneGreenlaw
    - Feb 25 - #DamonGalipeau
    - March 4 - #JohnNeptune
    - March 11 - #ChrisNewell - If You Lived During the American Revolution
    - April 1 - #BonnieNewsom - Swordfish in Past Wabanaki Lifeways
    - April 8 - #MaulianBryant - #WabanakiAlliance
    - April 2 9- Kaya Lolar, Sage Phillips, and Youth
    - May 6 - #DwayneTomah - #WabanakiLanguages
    May 13 - #ApemesimGalipeau

    FMI and to register:
    docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

    Source:
    mailchi.mp/wabanakialliance/wa

    #WabanakiAlliance #MaineTribes #MaineFirstNations #Dawnland #NativeAmericanCulture #NativeAmericanLanguage #TraditionalWays #NativeAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #NativeAmericanCulturalPreservation

    #wabanakistudies #wabanaki #briannelolar #kayalolar #sagephillips #rogerpaul
  2. DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] ·

    Another 2025 #Nihkaniyane honoree -#BrianneLolar!

    "Brianne Lolar is one of three individuals honored by the #WabanakiAlliance at the 2025 Nihkaniyane event. A citizen of the #PenobscotNation, Lolar is a beloved elementary school teacher who left the classroom four years ago to begin doing equally important work as the first #WabanakiStudies Specialist for the Maine Department of Education. In that work she is bringing voice and representation to the Wabanaki people through partnerships with Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators and organizations who’ve been working together to achieve unmet goals and objectives of the 2001 requiring that #WabanakiHistory and culture be taught and integrated into the K-12 curriculum.

    "A 2022 report from the Wabanaki Alliance, #AbbeMuseum, #ACLU of Maine, and Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission noted the law has not been implemented meaningfully across the state. Those findings and the work of a task force leading up to the report are what led Lolar to leave her 'happy place' of teaching in the classroom and enter the challenging give-and-take realm of state government where she’s been working on year-to-year contracts to help teachers and school districts fulfill the goals of the 2001 law.

    " 'I knew I can’t complain about nothing being done if I’m not going to step up and sacrifice,' she says. 'My thinking was ‘It’s just a year and I’ll go back to teaching. It could go away again at any time. So I need to make the most of this opportunity.'

    "Her sense of urgency motivated a 'can-do' approach that made sure yearly progress was being made to create a solid foundation for Wabanaki studies being taught across the entire state."

    Read more:
    wabanakialliance.com/nihkaniya

    #WabanakiAlliance #Wabanaki #LanguagePreservation #WabanakiLanguage #CulturalPreservation #PreservingHistory #IndigenousLanguage #IndigenousHistory #Teachers

    #nihkaniyane #briannelolar #wabanakialliance #penobscotnation #wabanakistudies #wabanakihistory