Welcome to the Dawnland
Keynote:
Dan Wildcat
Dan Wildcat
Artisan Booths
FIRESIDE Chat
Howland Dam & Fish Passage Site Visit
Sweetgrass Site Visit
Archaeological Site Visit
100
James Francis Shared with us Penobscot place names. These names had originations from the following categories 1) geological or geographic descriptions, 2) Natural Resource based or 3) __________ based.
What is legend?
100
Dr. Dan Wildcat is a supporter of Indigenous Science that embodies the narrative that plants, animals, and other non-human beings are not viewed as resources but viewed as this.
What is a relative?
100
This small, family owned, Native American run business has built its reputation on selling delicious and nutritious, Traditional Ojibwe food for communities far and near.
What is Dynamite Hill Farms?
100
This legendary figure is referenced in many Wabanaki stories and their name can be translated to "The man from nothing".
Who is Klooscap/Gluskabe?
100
This watershed is the largest in Maine and is the ancestral homelands of the Penobscot Nation.
What is the Penobscot Watershed?
100
Suzanne Greenlaw and her research team deliberately chose their study sites by following this Tribal community group.
What are the Indigenous harvesters?
100
This archaeological feature is considered as a misnomer to indigenous archaeologists, as it describes the site as a sort of dumping ground or trash heap.
What is a Midden?
200
This anadromous fish was implied to be historically present in the Nesowadnehunk river by Penobscot stories of the “little People” teaching fisherman how to craft specialized spears to harvest them.
What is (Atlantic) Salmon?
200
Dr. Dan Wildcat shared that in order to bring youth into the conversation of climate change responsibly & safely, we need to bring them into this space.
What is the outdoors?
200
The first step in this project is to learn more about the work being done in the Tribal resiliency arena while also defining what resiliency means to USET member Tribal Nations.
What is the USET Tribal Resilience Project?
200
Klooscap's impatience with this natural phenomena drove him to march north and visit Wuchowsen atop a mountain, where Klooscap knocked Wuchowsen off the mountain stopping this natural phenomena.
What is wind?
200
This channeled stream serves as an access route for native fish populations to route around the Howland dam during their spawning events.
What is a natural fish bypass channel?
200
Suzanne Greenlaw states that, “Practice is where we adapt and change. Stopping a practice stops ____.”
What is learning?
200
In the early 1800’s this Wabanaki cultural archaeological site on the Damariscotta River was disturbed by mining activity while the adjacent site, The Glidden Midden, was fortunately preserved.
What are the Whaleback Shell Middens/Heaps?
300
Penobscot legend describes that this Island mountain in western Maine, was once a cow Moose that was shot by bow and arrow by the Wabanaki creator, Klooscap.
What is Mount Kineo?
300
Dr. Dan Wildcat shared that Native people have long been practicing as this currently popular type of scientist because of the tendency of Indigenous languages to have words that are associated with the timing of natural phenomena.
What is a Phenologist?
300
This dollar amount is listed as the price before shipping and handling at Dynamite Hill Farms for a ½ pound package of Maple Sugar-coated Pecans.
What is $15.00?
300
To return the water to the Wabanaki people, Klooscap struck the back of a huge bull frog with an enormous tree. The impact of the tree on the earth was so significant that the imprint created this waterway and many other tributaries.
What is the Penobscot River?
300
John Banks the Natural Resources Director shared that the Howland Dam fish passage project helps establish resiliency to these two climate impacts to the Penobscot River Watershed.(provide at least one)
What is more frequent intense precipitation events & Warming of inland rivers and streams?
300
Indigenous sweetgrass harvesters will harvest this blade of sweet grass in order to leave one for each of the seven generations to come.
What is the eighth blade of sweet grass?
300
Indigenous archaeologist, Dr. Bonnie Newsom points to these three primary climate change impacts as being the drivers of erosion at coastal shell heap archaeological sites. (will accept any of the three.)
What is Sea Level Rise, more frequent intense precipitation events, and changes in freeze thaw cycles?