Lianna Constantino: UVM gave the actual Abenaki people a platform Commentary regarding the "Abenakis" in Vermont And Beyond Borders dated May 16, 20222

Lianna Constantino: UVM gave the actual Abenaki people a platform

Pretendians or Reconnecting Natives? What's the Difference?

Beyond Borders (THE FULL VIDEO) recorded by UVM... April 29, 2022 in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont.

Pretendians in Vermont Attack Abenaki Nation Sovereignty - A Mi'kmaw Indian explains who is Indian

Odanak First Nation denounces Vt. state-recognized Abenaki tribes as 'Pretendian' - Vermont Public Radio (VPR) article May 5, 2022

Odanak First Nation denounces Vt. state-recognized Abenaki tribes as 'Pretendian' 

Beyond Borders: Unheard Abenaki Voices from the Odanak First Nations April 29, 2022

Beyond Borders: Unheard Abenaki Voices from the Odanak First Nations

"It’s been a decade since Vermont’s government recognized four groups of Vermonters as Native American tribes. Largely excluded from that political process of 2010-2012 were the Abenaki of the Odanak First Nation. Displaced across the U.S.-Canada border in the era of the American Revolution, the ancestors of the Odanak Abenaki once occupied much of northern New England. Yet Odanak held no representation on Vermont’s Commission on Native American Affairs when recognition was granted, nor was Odanak’s elected leadership permitted to testify before the Vermont Legislature during that process. Initially supportive of the Missisquoi group in the 1970s, Odanak’s leadership came to oppose Vermont recognition by 2003, and does not recognize any of Vermont’s four tribes as Abenaki.

On this tenth anniversary of state recognition, the University of Vermont welcomes the Abenaki of Odanak and their New England relatives to share their historical perspective on land they consider to be their unceded territory in and adjacent to the Green Mountain State: a homeland known as Ndakinna. Who are the Abenaki of Odanak? How have they used their homeland that became Vermont and New England since their displacement in the 18th century? What does recognition, including Vermont’s recognition of the Elnu, Koasek, Missisquoi and Nulhegan, mean to them? This event asks Vermonters to listen to and take account of Native voices that have so far gone unheard in our public discourse."

The general public will be able to register the 25th after 8 a.m. for remote attendance ...

Register Here: go.uvm.edu/beyondborders

Let us all remember - honor - and respectfully acknowledge the REAL Abenaki People today... whose ancestors are buried in this land we refer to as "Vermont" and surrounding states.

NOT these race shifters in Vermont and New Hampshire:

Race Shifters 101 in Vermont and New Hampshire

Unsettling Genealogies Conference: UNMASKING PSEUDO INDIANS - Session 1

Pay ATTENTION and LISTEN to ALL of these panelists. 

Then THINK about Dartmouth College, Middlebury College, UMass-Amherst College et al. regarding how these Educational Institutions PROMOTED and gave PLATFORM - SPACE - and BENEFIT ...

to FAKE (Self-Identifying) "ABENAKIS" 

Including the late Michael Anthony Dorris who claimed to be "Modoc from Oregon" according to Professor Collin Calloway...

A broken life: After the suicide of Michael Dorris, dark questions cloud the reputation of this literary saint.

By JOSIE RAWSON

PUBLISHED APRIL 21, 1997

https://www.salon.com/1997/04/21/dorris/

Over the weekend, rumors have been circulating among those close to Erdrich that another bombshell about Dorris' private life is about to drop, though no one will comment on its nature. If there is indeed another such damaging revelation, Dorris' fears that his legacy would be irreparably tarnished might turn out to be well-founded. But his friends pray this is not the case.