July 19, 1973
The Franklin County, Vermont newspaper (Page 08) wrote an article entitled “Abenaqui Indians Settle in Swanton ca. 1650,” wherein this article it is mentioned specifically the "St. Francis Indians"... i.e. and so a year later Swanton, VT-based Homer Walter ST. FRANCIS ("I-must-be-Abenaki” “because my surname is St. Francis") It really was that SIMPLE of an equation f how the race shifting began in Vermont.
June-July 1974 -
Yet ‘out-of-the-blue’ this newly formed organization calling itself the “Union of Vermont-New Hampshire Indians”, which had just formed in 1974, didn’t see why Hannah Dustin should have been honored for killing Native Americans.
Notice that the “Union of VT-NH Indians, Inc.’d” seemed to mimic the “Union of Aroostook Indians, Inc.’d” organization in Houlton, Maine, interestingly enough. CETA funding was coming through the Boston Indian Council, by way of their agent, Ronald Canns, son Julius Canns.
The newly formed organization wanted the statue removed, and they wanted the four-acre island returned to Indian control. Self-Identifying-Indians stated they are “highly disturbed” over the presence of the monument.
Henry Smith of Concord and Ronald Canns of Suncook, two members of the “Union of Vermont-New Hampshire Indians”, called on fellow Indians to call tribal councils to register complaints about the statue, and to work for restoration of the island to Indians.
1974 -
Returning to the events happening in New Hampshire in 1974, the Nashua Telegraph newspaper wrote that a census of persons who self-identified as being of American or Canadian Indian descent was being taken by the “Union of Vermont-New Hampshire Indians of Penacook, N.H.” under the auspices of CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act).
[Notice how the name of the organization(s) keep getting more encompassing in their organizations names]
Julius Canns' son Ronald/Ronnie Canns had come up to the area in the beginning to mid of 1975 opening up a St. Albans, VT-based Manpower Office with CETA Comprehensive Employment Training Act Funding through the Boston Indian Council in Boston, MA; and Ronnie Canns created a self-identifier census/survey he'd sent out to possible persons of whom believed they were of 'Native persona'; Just like he had down in Concord, NH the year previous. By June of 1975, the collected members of a group began appearing in the local newspapers.
Group No.1
Homer's group the "St. Francis Band" started explicitly in June-July of 1975. NOT BEFORE THIS MONTH and YEAR. NOT 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974.
This group was initially led by Wayne J. Hoague, but he was disgruntled about embezzlement and fraud from the very beginning by Homer himself and that the group had no monetary accountability for the grant(s) coming into the group; and was summarily ousted by Homer and his allies, and was replaced by Homer St. Francis Sr. himself.
October 29, 1976 – November 02, 1976
The Swanton, VT-based group created a grant/monetary receivership org (incorporation) under VT State Secretary’s Office called the Abenaki Self-Help Association Inc.’d (ASHAI) N-00020-0. This was signed by Homer St. Francis Sr. and Wayne J. Hoague.
The initial
boards of directors were:
Janet Hurlbert
Georgianna Martel [Allan Joseph Martel’s mother, Georgiana Judith (nee: Robertson) Martel]
Patricia “Patsy” (nee: Partlow) St. Francis (Homer’s wife)
Alma (nee: Young) Wells (Robert “Bob” Wells wife)
Joy Mashtare, Simonne Bray
Veronica Belle (nee: Clark) St. Francis. [Wife of Geo. J. St. Francis, the latter being a 1st Cousin Once Removed from Homer W. St. Francis Sr.; George being a Great-Grandson of Homer’s paternal grandparents]
Later, on May 14, 1978, an amendment had been made to the Articles of Association Article 3, subparagraph 6. To receive any and all land and real estate donated, given or decreed by a Vermont Probate Court. At the time of this amendment in mid-May 1978 the ASHAI Vice President was James H. Ledoux; the Secretary being Patsy [nee: Partlow] St. Francis (Homer’s wife)
Group No. 2
Wayne J. Hoague created the "Green Mountain Band" by Sept. 1977
Group No. 3
Richard Wilfred “Black Horse” Phillips created the "Sokoki Band" (again by Sept. 1977)
[Richard (Sokoki) plus (+) Homer (St. Francis) equals (=) the St. Francis-Sokoki group]
Group No. 3.1
Rudolph Kent Ouimette, who had helped Homer St. Francis Sr. oust Wayne “Chubby” Hoague retrospectively, had decided to split off from the St. Francis’s group. He had left his position as administrator of the St. Francis band and joined the “Missisquoi Council,” that was led by Chief Arthur ‘Bill’ Seymour (Burlington Free Press 10/21/1977).
July 11, 1977
N-00021-0
Abenaki Land Trust
R. [Rudolph] Kent Ouimette
V. [Vivian] Jean Ouimette
Last
Biennial Report filed: 12/31/1978
Terminated: 06/23/1989**
Group No. 4
November 17, 1977
“The Missisquoi Band of the Abenaki Nation” signed articles of Association [?]
Arthur "Bill" Seymour (1920-2013), an Essex Junction, VT resident had ‘created’ the "Missisquoi Band"
The August 10, 1975 date that
was given per the February 19, 1993 handwritten
document is INCORRECT and a MANIPULATION by both Arthur Seymour and Howard
Knight Jr. SEE August 14, 1979
AGAIN, Howard F. Knight Jr. was a race shifting distortion artist with documents and dates to “justify” his “con job” of being an “Abenaki” [just like Frederick M. Wiseman PhD and so many others].
May 22, 1978
N-00017-0
Abenaki Educational Development Corporation
Registered Agent: April
A. (nee: St. Francis) Rushlow
Officers:
Homer St. Francis
Sr.
April A. Rushlow
Carol Delorme
Debra Bergeron
Harlan LaFrance
Anna Louko
July 17, 1978 –
N-02011-0
Kdakinna
Pobatamwogan Medicine Society
Duane Ouimette [R. Kent Ouimet’s son born in 1964 in Georgia]
Signers of the
Articles of Association were:
R. [Rudolph] Kent Ouimette
Arthur William [“Bill”] Seymour
Dorothy [nee: Newton] Seymour [Arthur Seymore’ wife]
V. Jean [nee: Richard] Ouimette [R. Kent Ouimet' wife]
1979 –
Rudolph Kent Ouimette, Director of the “Masipskoik Wabanakiak Missisquoi Band – The Abenaki Nation” of 15 Jewett Street in Swanton Vermont, had received a U.S. Dept. of Education Office of Educational Research and Improvement (Washington, D.C. book entitled “Application for Grants under the Ethnic Heritage Studies Program”.
August 14, 1979
“Abenaki
Nation-Vermont, Inc.’d”
The articles of association were signed for the formation of the Abenaki Nation-Vermont, Inc.’d.
The
incorporation agents were:
Chief Arthur W. Seymour
[Missisquoi
Band]
Chief Wayne J. Hoague [Green Mountain Band]
Chief Richard W. Phillips [Eastern Woodlands Band] (Notes: 182.)
(182.) September 10, 1979 - The Burlington Free Press Newspaper, “Abenakis Electing Tribal Chief Today”
Group No. 5
December 12, 1979
N-01198-0 "Eastern Woodlands Band of the Abenaki Nation" / "Eastern Mountains Band"
Yet another one of Homer St. Francis Sr.’ dissenters, Richard Wilfred “Black Horse” Phillips had also broken away from Homer's group and he formed a separate group called the "Eastern Woodlands Band of the Abenaki Nation" / a.k.a. "Eastern Mountains Band" on December 12, 1979 ...
Signers were:
Richard W.
Phillips
Carmen G. Allen [of 28 Ferris Street in Swanton, VT]
Emerson Bidwell
Garfield
Clifford Phillips
[All-but-one (Carmen) of the incorporators were of the Phillips descendancy (cousins to one another)]
Rudolph Kent Ouimette (formerly of Group No. 1), president of the "Abenaki Nation-Vermont", a confederacy of the three spin-off groups (see amalgamation of the 3 groups dated August 14, 1979)
Howard Franklin Knight Jr. was never a member of Homer's group that I am aware of, but later in the mid-1990's Homer and Howard did in fact ally with one another, recognizing each other's groups etc in August 1994.
February 02, 1980
N-00019-0 “Abenaki Nation/ Vermont”
Registered Agent: K’dakinna Pobatamwogan Medicine Society
Address: 15 Jewett Street in Swanton, VT
Arthur W. Seymour (Missisquoi Band of the Abenaki Nation)
Wayne J. Hoague (Green Mountain Band of the Abenaki Nation)
Richard W. Phillips (Eastern Woodlands Band of the Abenaki Nation)
Last Status Report: February
29, 1980
Terminated: 06/23/1989
[The Notary Public that
signed the document was R. Kent Ouimette,
Justice of the Peace]
MORE in the next post ...
