Marie (Watso) M'Sadoques
Odanak Abénakis
Keene, New Hampshire
Nancy Lee (Millette) Cruger - Lyons - Doucet who created the Koasek "Abenaki" group in 2006, hijacking the identity of not only the historical Koasek Abénakis but also attempted arrogantly to mimic in Nancy looking like in appearance to that of the late Marie (Watso) M'Sadoques of the Odanak Abénakis residing in Keene, New Hampshire.
Clearly, in the video by Vera Longtoe Sheehan, of the Elnu group, Vera herself placed both Marie (Watso) Sadoques (1854-1934) and Nancy together, with the late Mali (Mason) Keating (1931-2001) holding the photo of her maternal grandmother
Do you SEE how the Pretendian attempts to appear as if they have "legitimacy"?
Nancy Lee (Millette) had no Abénaki Ancestry whatsoever.
Yet here, she herself and Vera Sheehan have attempted to deceive the naive public.
IMPLYING that she had implied ancestry to the Watso Sadoques Family.
Here's yet another EXAMPLE of perpetuated deceitfulness and lies to the naive NH Public audience:
TRANSLATION OF CLIP ...
Audience question: How did you personally decide that that's what you're going to do?
Liz: that's a great question.
How did I personally decide that I was going to make baskets? parrots Liz of the audience member's question, back to the audience.
Quote: I'm Abenaki I was raised as an Abenaki I always knew that baskets were a good part of our heritage.
My mother [Linda "Willow" Greene] is not a basket maker ... so that in itself is kind of unique, because generally, the art form is passed through families. An elder lady who was a basket maker [Jeanne Deforge Brink] and she learned from an elder lady, [Sophie Nolett from and of Odanak] who was a basket maker ON OUR RESERVE ...
I really loved the baskets and I decided I wanted to learn.
So I took two one-year apprenticeships through the State Council of the Arts with this woman and it made me a master basket maker (smiles) ... so now I have my first apprentice ... my daughter messes around with it now too.
SOURCE: "Weaving Traditions of the Abenaki Nation" per the presentation at the Nashua Historical Society, presented in 2014 at The Nashua Historical Society in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Liz Charlebois became an ash-and-sweetgrass, basket maker as an ADULT. Because she has to appear as if she is an "Abenaki". Her father had a Mazipskwik Traditional Abenaki Band Card, and such group was a spun-off SPLINTER GROUP from Homer St. Francis' group in the mid-1990s (aft. 1995).
During this program, she claims she is an Abenaki, but negated mentioning that her basket-making teacher was Jeanne (Deforge) Brink of Barre, VT, who learned in her later years from Odanak Abenaki basket maker Sophie Nolett. WHY is that omitted from her lips to the audience she is presenting to?
And WHY is she clearly INFERRING to the audience that HER Reserve is Odanak? When it NEVER was.
Apparently, this is how appropriators and race shifters roll in the Northeast, assuming no one is listening?
Anyway, I am putting this out there to the public, as an educational piece. IF she isn't a member or citizen of Odanak, WHY was she saying she was?
Another EXAMPLE of deceitfulness and lies:
"Abenaki" Professor Fred Wiseman still claims his paternal grandmother was an Abenaki Indian from Pigeon Hill, Quebec, Canada. Clearly, his paternal grandmother was 100% percent WHITE French-Canadian whose ancestors go back to FRANCE.
Dr. Frederick Matthew Wiseman, Ph.D. himself has helped manifest other like-minded race shifters in the Whitest State of the Union of these United States to "become Abenaki" in order to Play Indian post-1975. Wiseman is just another ethnic identity thief against the Abénakis. An academic wolf in sheep's wool if one does a scratch and sniff test genealogically. His narrative is a ruse, decolonization becomes appropriation. ONLY when he was attending his late father's funeral did he witness the Ouimet family's French-Canadian descendants dressed up Pan-Indian and said, "My paternal grandmother's people were Ouimet's, so if they are claiming to be Abenaki then so won't I" and Homer got another stooge to "legitimize" the group of race shifters to both academia and politician and public naive gawker alike in Vermont.
And more deceit and lies:
Mr. Richard Holschuh, the 340-years-later descendant of Germain Doucet, claiming that he is of Indigenous heritage because Mr. Doucet was somehow Mi'Kmaw and from the Mi'Kmaq tribe in the early 1600s.
He claims as he is a member of the registered 501(c)3 of the Elnu Abenaki, Inc.'d that they receive NO BENEFITS from the fraudulent state of Vermont recognition. This is a FALSEHOOD, a lie, and a deceitful statement to the Vermont public. Take a look at their IRS 990 Forms. Do a simple google search.
In fact, when a group of Pretendians such as that of Vermont's "tribes" is recognized by the state, it opened them up to scholarships, healthcare assistance, and created lines of communication with local and state governments, INCLUDING some Federal Agencies too.
True, they do not get the same benefits as the federal tribes such as monthly payments and government to government communication. But they do get direct access to Federal Block Grants.
In 2023, Peter Welch visited the Swanton, VT group which gained a $500,000 FEDERAL GRANT provided by the Northern Border Regional Commission that would help pay for construction costs related to the Abenaki project. Estimated to cost roughly $1.3 million to complete, "Maquam Bay of Missisquoi" (formerly Abenaki Self-Help Association, Inc.'d) expected to use the funds to flip an old trolley garage standing in the back lot of the Abenaki of Missisquoi Food Shelf.
This is just a single mention of the BENEFIT$ these 4 groups are getting in Vermont alone. I am not even including all the grants and monies and donations to these groups in Vermont and New Hampshire.
Now listen to Rich Holschuh IMPLY they do not get benefit$ from their fraudulent state recognition!
