Culture and Traditions
The sacred ash tree is vital to this Wabanaki tradition, now threatened by the emerald ash borer.
What is Basket Making?
Wabanaki people agreed not to fight with each other, forming this type of union of different groups of people.
What is a confederacy?
What are the four tribes in the Wabanaki Confederacy?
What are Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Mikmaq?
This is the term for a tribal unit in which members are descended from the same ancestor.
What is a clan?
This is the practice of passing down history and cultural knowledge through storytelling, as opposed to written records.
What are Oral Traditions?
The approximate amount of time Wabanaki people have lived in what is now known as Maine.
What is about 12,000 years?
The name "Wabanaki" means this in the Algonquian languages.
What is "People of the Dawnland"?
How did Wabanaki people write down important messages?
What is a wampum belt?
Wabanki children once played with dolls made from this plant material.
What are Corn Husk Dolls?
What factors contributed to the Europeans gaining control over New England?
What is disease, forcibly displaced tribes, and destroyed traditional lifeways with their land use and trade practices?
Where are all the Maine reservations located?
What are Presque Isle, Perry, Township, Houlton, and Indian Island?
This is the name for the symbol used by the Wabanaki Confederacy, representing the union between the nations.
What is a double curve?
How did Wabanaki people avoid damaging the environment?
What is, they only took what they needed and respected the earth?
This federal act, whose principles were learned by a Wabanaki REACH intern, has recently been threatened by federal court rulings
What is ICWA?
This was the primary mode of travel for the Wabanaki people before the arrival of Europeans.
What is a Canoe?
What language is on the signs across the UMaine Campus?
What is Penobscot?
This cultural hero is featured in many Wabanaki stories and is credited with creating the first people from the bark of an ash tree.
Who is Galooscap?
What is the most important treaty that the Wabanaki people never actually signed?
What is The Maine Indian Land Settlement Act of 1980?
How far did Wabanaki territory go?
What is the traditional Wabanaki homeland spans parts of modern-day Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and eastern Canada.
What is the word for Bear in Penobscot?
What is Muin?