Abenaki Greeting Song @ MHC's Focus the Nation 1/31/08

Marge Bruchac and her husband Justin perform at Focus the Nation at Mount Holyoke College.
A Website: http://www.avcnet.org/ne-do-ba/wa_02.html
Marge Bruchac, Abenaki Indian, is a scholar, performer, and historical consultant who works to decolonize representations of northeastern Native peoples from the 17th century to the present, by disseminating more accurate historical information and deconstructing stereotypes in museums and the academy. She offers a wide variety of lectures and performances for schools, museums and historical societies.

Performances of Songs and Stories: Marge sings traditional and contemporary Abenaki greeting songs, friendship songs, dance tunes and original ballads, accompanied by drum and rattle, both solo and with her husband, Justin Kennick. As a storyteller, she brings the northeastern Native past to life with trickster tales, lesson stories, and historical anecdotes to intrigue, teach, and entertain listeners of all ages. She also performs with both the Dawnland Singers and W'Abenaki Dancers.

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• Marge
• Bruchac
• Justin
• Kennick
• Greeting
• song
• Focus
• the
• Nation
• Mount
• Holyoke
• College
• Abenaki

[33sageonstage]

You're welcome! both of you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :-)

[marathonTmatt]

also, i am swedish (both grandmothers), scottish and tuscaroran (grandfather) and my other grandfather was french canadian and cree on his mother's side, english and german on fathers. i enjoy learning about the native culture so much, thank you.

[marathonTmatt]

awesome! i have a cassette tape by jesse bowman bruchac, it is so nice trad. music. and original melodies w/ the spruce flute.

[BryceVandergriftMOM]

SO NICE!

[mariha12345]

i'm in school learning about this and i like the beat

[hannigan06]

I think or believe the Abenaki Pow wow should be on Great Chebeaque in Casco Bay.

[carlman1987]

when is the Abenaki Pow wow in 2010 and is it still in Swanton Vermont?

[HolyBanana1]

nice to know, i have no clue of decendents in the tribe other than my grandfather was.