Just a laugh or two at a commentary on this other blog:

On this other blog: entitled Abenaki Pride Setting The Record Straight
The purpose of this blog is to give a voice to the Abenaki People who wish to "set the record straight", repair damage to their reputations, and simply tell the truth as they see it. No personal attacks here, just a safe forum to respond to the blog "The Reinvention of the Vermont Abenaki" by Douglas Lloyd Buchholz. Don't let his rant become "history"!

Abenaki: Setting the Record Straight we get a commentary post from "Anonymous" said on September 16, 2009 9:08 ...
I don't know which is more disgusting, the things Douglas posts on his blog, the fact that Douglas posts this crap in the first place, or that anyone bothers to read it.

My response to this commentary by "Anonymous" is that NO ONE is required to read anything on my blog whatsoever. Any person who finds my postings or documentations "disgusting" or that think that what is on this blog amounts to quote "crap", then simply don't read what is on this Reinvention of the Vermont Abenaki blog. But I think there are MANY people who are just itching to see and review what documentation I do have and will expose to the light of day on a whole bunch of folks who claim to be Abenaki in Vermont and in New Hampshire. Some folks may conclude or imply that what I am putting on this blog is "disgusting" or that it's "crap". Well, look at the SOURCES of the documentation! I didn't create these historical documents. I merely collected them and began doing the genealogical and historical research to either verify their claims and I found that their claims were without foundation, just like the State Attorney General's Office has concluded. Now if I am wrong in my conclusions, then please by all means, then simply SHOW and PROVIDE the factual social, historical, and most definitely the supporting genealogical documentary evidence that proves me wrong in my conclusions. It's that plain and simple. Because, whether anyone likes it or not, it is my endeavor with the creation of this blog, to show to the Vermont and New Hampshire PUBLIC and to the Legitimate Abenaki People's (and their neighbors) the very documentary evidence, after all these years, just exactly why I have concluded as I have about these so-called alleged Reinvented (very likely illegitimate & fraudulantly-based and self-proclaiming) Abenaki "groups" inside both Vermont and New Hampshire! I am far from done putting the documentation onto this blog........and I will do so, as I can, in as chronological way as I possibly can.
So whoever this "Anonymous" is on this other blog, all I can say is no one~ especially not me, ever forced or forces anyone to read or look at my blog's documentation or commentary since day one of its creation back in late May or early June 2009.

Howard F. Knight Jr. Letter of March 14, 2002 and March 22, 2002:

Howard F. Knight Jr., an alleged Cowasuck Abenaki "Chief" there in northern Vermont wrote a letter to Mr. Paul Pouliot on March 14th, 2002. Enlcosed as promised, the document for Renewal of Abenaki Nation of Vermont. Bruce & Skip (Richard Bernier) will be enraged-so be careful. Regards: Former Agent Barbara Jensen-She ripped off our Food Bank @ (for about) $450 dollars shortly after we renewed this Inc. (Incorporation).-She is NOT Trustworthy + she has been accepted by no group as a result. Now claims to be a Medicine Woman. Hope you can use this- How you got-Only 3 people know-Okay? Thanks. (As to How you got Control of the Abenaki Nation of Vermont. For re-incorporation - check w/ Bill Seymour-He originally started this Inc.- Up to you- if you wish to use my name, list me as Ret'd (Retired) in an- unimportant spot at the bottom of your list of whoever. I do not want to be even an agent. I am out of the Politics. Sorry, delay of this to you. Had another go-around with the V. A. (Veteran's Affairs) Hosp.-Whole Right Side affected. They think ANOTHER MILD STROKE. Test Results soon. I will let you know. Still proceeding with my Wedding Plans for Late Summer-early Fall to my Russian Lady. Take Care! Respectfully, Howard (F. Knight Jr.) (AKA Grandfather Circle).

So you see, Paul Wilson Pouliot merely was given an Incorporate entity created and promoted by Howard F. Knight Jr. in early 2002. Clearly Paul Pouliot was in Franklin County, Massachusetts operating his Incorporate operation down there in that state as well. As the saying goes, "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"~ "The branch is still part of the tree". Follow the math.....There is more I got to put on here, documentation-wise. Alot more manipulation by these people and much much more to be shown. Suffice it to say, that Howard Knight Jr. felt that he needed Paul Wilson Pouliot to "take over" the responsibilities of being "Chief" of this Incorporation "at least for awhile" because allegedly Pouliot was a member of or associated with the "Hawk Clan". So, after Howard Knight Jr. bequeathed to or bestowed upon (allegedly an election was held) Mr. Pouliot the "chieftonship of this Incorporate venture,Mr. Howard F. Knight subsequently bequeathed to Ralph Skinner Swett (son of Leon Swett and Elsie nee: Skinner) up in Evansville, Vermont, the Chieftonship of another created Incorporation entitled, "Clan of the Hawk", to try and take back what Howard already had given to Pouliot. You think this is confusing, heck it is confusing to me to try and figure out! Time wise I am sure some these events happened before March 2002 as indicated by the Swanton's "Homer St. Francis" Newsletters already posted on this blog previously. Suffice it to say, Howard F. Knight Jr. created and promoted incorporations, got people to join as "members" claiming to being Abenaki to legitimize the whole affair, gave out membership cards, and did some pretty shady things. When legalistically or politically the water got too hot, he tried to "jump out of the bathtub" as they'd say. Thus these little hand-over tatics. Oh, and the so called, "Oh, I just had a stroke, or I am blind b.s. with his sunglasses". After the water cooled down some, Howard Knight Jr. tried to and sometimes did get back into the bathtub. The tub was filled with b.s. that he wanted and wants everyone to believe was or is pure clean healing waters of these alleged Cowasuck Abenaki!

Recently, I have been accused on this Abenaki Pride: Setting the Record Straight blog by "Anonymous" aka Jeanne Antoinette (nee: Lalime) Lincoln-Kent of Winstead, CT of being in alliance with, being paid for or by, supported by Paul Wilson Pouliot and or his "group" . Well, far from it truthfully. Where is their proof, their evidence of such an arrangement? Just because Paul Wilson Pouliot himself published articles that I wrote (and btw were published previously elsewhere in other media formats) into his Cowasuck Newsletter's does not mean I support him, or his group, nor does that make me a member of his alleged "Cowasuck" Abenaki group. But oh, how they do twist and contort trying to maliciously throw stones and dirt in my direction in their attempts to bury me with their lies and slander, simply because of their own historical records being shown! Oh, did you know that Jeanne lincoln-Kent was twice a member of Paul Pouliot's group down there in Franklin County, Massachusetts? The first time she joined his group was 07/15/1993 then her renewal membership date was 07/01/98 . She even got a Cowasuck Abenaki Artist Certificate, signed by Paul Pouliot himself. Retrospectively-speaking she had left this group on approximately June 01, 2002, and because thereafter she realized she couldn't legitimately sell her "crafts" (i.e. vending at Pow-wow's in the Northeast) anymore without being a part of a group, so she within a year's time requested and wanted back into the Paul Pouliot's alleged Cowasuck Abenaki "group" as a member! She then recieved a renewal membership card in July of 2002 when she came back into that group. Dates and times are not that important, yet my point is that Jeanne Lincoln-Kent was a part of Paul Pouliot's group "twice" not just once, and she was also a member of the Metis Nation of Quebec apparently, as well as saying in documentation that she was a Missisquoi Abenaki. Is she Cowasuck? Is she Missisquoi? Seems to me from the documentation that she was Band hopping and shopping! Just like Carollee Reynolds was doing as one will see in future submitted documentary evidence. Was Jeanne Lincoln-Kent legitimately Vermont Abenaki, if she was born in Indiana and raised in Connecticut? Well, from what I have gathered she says she's an alleged descendant of the signer's of the Swanton, Vermont "Robertson's Lease"~and she says she's a Nippissing/Abenaki descendant. So, whose supporting who, whose condemning who, and for what reasons are they doing these things?

The following photographs are posted and persons identified are: Photo 1: Jeanne Lincoln's article in a Native oriented Calendar, I think the Boston Indian Center might put this calendar out to the public. The particular write-up states she was born in Indiana (to Joseph Granville Leger Lalime and Crystal Vondale nee: Davis) and raised in Connecticut. So was Mr. Howard F. Knight Jr. born in CT as well. Date of Calendar unknown Photo 2: Dated May 2006 Signing of Bill S.117 in Montpelier, VT ~ Left to Right is Nancy Millette Cruger Lyons Doucet, an unidentified woman, Dee Brightstar, (seated) is Jeanne Antoinette (nee: Lalime) Lincon-Kent. Photo 3: Jeanne Lincoln-Kent and Burton Decarr.

Stay tune for the next episode of the "As The Alleged Abenaki World Turns".

I have to laugh some more.

Letter from Howard F. Knight Jr. of ca. May 07, 2006

This "letter" was given to me by a un-named email sender under "anonymous" so I presume the sender was the recipient of such a "graphic" "inappropriate" "sleezy" email from Howard F. Knight Jr. I present it here as-I-recieved-it via email attachments. Again, it is the younger generation (children of all grades) in which these "groups" of alleged Abenaki wish to peddle their distorted interpretations of THEIR so-called Abenaki histories. Frederick Wiseman wants to put forth his "Against the Darkness" DVD etc into the schools, with no valid evidence that what he says or implies in that video is even of merit or truthful. Same thing with his newer DVD "the Other Side of History" (link:
http://www.jsc.edu/NewsAndEvents/NewsArchive/2007-2008NewsArchive/AbenakiVideo.aspx

Again, it is all about their self-promotion. That is my thoughts and conclusions on the matter, until I am shown otherwise.

On page 3 of this "letter" Howard F. Knight Jr. begins to speak "inappropriately" to this unidentified woman (whose mother he claims to know as well), claiming that he will be "her guinea pig" to what seemingly is a description or implied method of castration to sexual offenders. Restrospectively-speaking this Howard F. Knight Jr. did NOT like Allen Champney "because there were allegations of sexual assaults against young females". (link: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1903.0 This was documented in the media, and Allen Champney was a member of and involved in the New Hampshire Intertribal Association. Well, let's see here if I get this straight.....Howard Knight Jr. throws a pointed finger at Allen Champney while three of his own fingers are pointed right back at himself, a self-documented deviant according to this email he himself created and sent ot to this woman! This "letter" proves my point. Because of Allen's past conduct/court record, etc. Howard Knight Jr. sends out this multiple page email to this unidentified woman "offering to teach her how to castrate a man, that he'll be her "guinea pig" thus offering to expose his own genitelia to her in his so-called "teaching" her! Pardon me, but MOST legtimate Native People's understand that Grandmothers teach their daughters and or granddaughters and sometimes their nieces etc. Grandfather's teach their sons, and or grandsons. Uncles teach their nephews and Aunt's their nieces. That is Abenaki tradition, as it is. Howard F. Knight implying that he has the right, title and interest in teaching or sharing "teaching's or lesson's" of this or any other situation to a woman/female is clearly deviant and inappropriate! And this man claims that he is a Cowasuck Abenaki Chief / Repesentative within and of Vermont?!

The man in this "letter" of Page 3, claims, "The woman who taught me what they used to do, was into her late 70's and one of the last of the women who knew what and how to do what had to be done....She talked to me at length as to my personal thoughts about men doing this to children and to women.....

Supposedly this woman (unidentified) who allegedly taught him was "from Danville, Vermont". I find this whole "letter" and it author Howard F. Knight Jr. to be completely disgusting and he is clearly not a true bonefide decent representative of ANY legitimate Abenaki Community or people, to my thinking!

Articles: November 01, 2001 - November 14, 2001

Howard F. Knight Jr. appealed pro se from the trial courts granting summary judgment to the Plaintiff Anthony Tanguay. Which the Trial Judge Dennis R. Pearson did affirm. Howard Knight Jr. owned a piece of property in Conventry, Vermont, of which the township tax collector extended and levied a warrant against Howard F. Knight Jr., the property owner at that time. In that same month of September 2001 the tax collector of Coventry, Vermont signed a Notice of Tax Sale, which inclued Howard Knight Jr.'s said property because Mr. Howard F. Knight Jr. had failed to pay his property taxes in 2000/ The Notice of Tax Sale was delivered the very next day to a local newspaper and published for three (3) consecutive weeks. On October 12, 2001, the notice was sent by registered mail, return-receipt rquested, to Howard F. Knight Jr. and to the mortgagees and lein holders of the property, Green Tree Financial Servicing, Ran-Mar Corporation and Greenpoint Credit Corporation. Defendant, Mr Howard F. Knight Jr. did sign the reurn-receipt on October 23, 2001, as did the representatives of Green Tree Financial Servicing and Ran-Mar Corporatioin. and the property was sold via a tax sale on November 01, 2001.

Now some folks might wonder what the heck this has to do with anything related to the alleged and or "Reinvented Vermont "Abenaki"? It'll become clear as I continue this posting. In November 2003, Mr. Anthony Tanguay filed a complaint against said Howard Knight Jr. and his "Russian wife" Ana Cojubar Coblai, seeking a declaration that he was the sole owner of the property, as well as a permanent injuctive relief against Howard Kinght Jr. and his wife for any possible claims they might raise as to their right to the property, and a write of possession. In May 2004 Anthony Tanguay filed a motioin for summary judgement.

Now on page 2 of this Court Record, in Howard F. Knight Jr.'s appeal, Howard asserts that he first became aware that his property had been sold in December 2002. He states tha he did not sign for the notice of tax sale that was sent to him in October 2001 by the tax collector of Coventry, Vermont. He states that he believed he had two years to redeem the property, and he detailed his attempts to pay Anthony Tanguay, the back taxes that he owed.

Howard Knight Jr. in a Lawful Court for and of the Commonwealth of the State of Vermont simply and plainly LIED to the effect that he did not sign for the notice of tax sale of his property, of which he neglected to pay the property taxes on in 2000. So, now it PROVES that this man who claims to be a Cowasuck Chief of Vermont is a known LIAR. The man stood in a Vermont Court in Orleans County, Vermont and blatantly lied to the Trial Judge, as you can all read from the documents provided right here on The Reinvention of the Vermont Abenaki. Further investigations into the Court Records of not only the State of Vermont, but also California and South Dakota provide interesting deceit and deceptions regarding Howard F. Knight Jr. and his "associated parties" within not only Children's Protective Services but also the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, etc. of some years back. You see, whenever Howard Knight Jr. this alleged Chief of the Cowasuck, Cowasek, Koasek Abenaki People began to get himself into HOT WATER, he simply passed on the mantel of his 501(c)3 Incorporation(s). His self-created group(s) of people claiming to be "Cowasuck"was and are not NOT from and of a legitimate Abenaki Community, Tribe, or Band from or of Vermont.

The other article dated November 14, 2001 is simply yet another article regarding Howard Lyons (not to be confused with Howard F. Knight Jr.) who is definitely of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy.

Aug 29, 2001 - to - October 24, 2001 Articles:

Ok, so going from the top article (regarding Howard Lyons and Firecrow) down to the bottom one (regarding Mr. Allen Champney a.k.a. Spotted Wolf).....In the first article that was in the Courier Littleton, N.H. Newspaper, it clearly shows that Howard Lyons was introduced to Nancy (nee: Millette) Cruger in 1997 at the Native American Cultural Weekend, which Nancy was founder of. That Howard Lyons himself relocated to Bethlehem, New Hampshire in September 2000, began living with said Nancy Cruger. This article "promotes" Mr. Lyons, but at the same time, promotes Nancy herself! (as always).
Author Frederick Wisman at the Littleton N.H. Bookstore "The Village Bookstore" did a book signing regarding "The Voice of the Dawn: an Autobiography of the Abenaki Nation" the previous Saturday to this published August 29th, 2001 Courier article. Interesting. Was this some sort of N.H. "media blitz" regarding these alleged Abenaki from Vermont who had obviously created associations and ties to none other than Nancy (Millette) Cruger? The book I recommend simply not to advocate or accept the contents therein, but simply for the merits of Mr. Wiseman's attempts at chronologically documenting the group of alleged "Missisquoi Abenaki" in Swanton and the surrounding area. Maybe they are real? Maybe they are not real? I tend to lean more to the latter conclusion as you by now, obviously have figured out reading this blog.
On October 10, 2001 Nancy Cruger, festival coordinator, came before the Selectman of Lancaster, N.H. on Monday October 1st to "brief them on what will take place and to see if they had concerns about traffic control and related issues. Apparently they didn't realize she was not who she appeared to be. (A sanke oil saleswoman of these alleged Vermont Abenaki of the 21st Century to my thinking). She was getting ready for using the Lancaster, N.H. Fairgrounds for another one of her staged "Sagakwa" Pow-wow's and mark my words, she was and did go after another one of them Governor's Proclamation's now that she back in the lime light of the media. She was thinking she was gaining "recognition" for the Abenaki of both Vermont and New Hampshire but what she was going about was gaining recognition for herself based on falsehoods and "stories" she herself created in her own mind.
Again, researching the Courier Newspaper on microfilm, here is Joshua Hunt, son of Richard "Rick" Hunt, at the age of 09 years living in Littleton, New Hampshire "dressed as Native American and having danced at Chevron Park in Littleton. Interesting that he woud "dress up as a Native American. ???? Nancy Cruger and Rick Hunt are first cousins, and Joshua "Josh" Hunt is Rick's son. I think what is sad, is that some people are "raised up" as being "Abenaki" and yet still have nothing in their hands from their ancestors to solidify and document the People's history socially and genealogically. And if neither social or genealogical evidence is found, well, they shrug their shoulder's and still claim to be "Abenaki", because who cares (?) they now possess the land, they live on the land of the Abenaki Ancestors, so who cares IF these people "dress up" as Abenaki/Native Americans and continue to claim to be "Abenaki/Cowasuck/Missisquoi". Geneocide they will scream and cry foul. They will scream genealogical geneocide claiming they were all "hiding in plain sight" all the while their genealogical historical records go back to Catholic French Baptismal Records clear back to the 1600's and 1700's.
The photograph of Allen Champney a.k.a. Spotted Wolf, is of yet another imposter claiming to be Abenaki, claiming to be Pennacook, running around the Northeast (southern N.H. etc, and all the way over to Iroquoian and Mohawk communities). But gosh, look at that "getup"/costume (dare I say "regalia). Even though he tries to hide behind the sunglasses, they reveal more than what they try to hide! The clowns never stop dressing up and parading in front of the non-native school children. It's "the minds" they are after, of our next generation. "Believe what we say today, not as what our own Ancestors documented". If they can convince the school children and hypnotise the teachers of today and the Politicians, Senators of the Legislature, both in Vermont and New Hampshire, well "recogntion" of these alleged Abenaki will perhaps get what they are after. Plying the sympathy, plying the distortions they themselves have created. They will put the "Eugenics" = "hiding in plain sight", they will yell that anyone demanding or requesting "genealogical evidence" anything to do with genealogy of their families ancestries, as being "paper geneocide" and that we all are acting like German Nazis. But they will not be truthful. They will twist, they will turn, they will attempt to decieve and deny, and contort. Because they are not really who they appear to be.

Here's another comment from Abenaki Pride - Setting The Record Straight.....

http://abenakipride.blogspot.com/2009/06/please-note-posting-here-is-open-to-all.html#comments

Now my response to you Mr. C. Johnson (whoever you are), is that I doubt very much the Vermont or New Hampshire Government and or Legislature's would agree with your conclusion(s). Neither would any legitimate cohesive, continuous, historical Native Communities in this United States either.
Cows are cows, Jersey or not. Cows don't need Abenaki State Recognition as being Native Abenaki (that I know of) either.
Oh, and one very important point I would like to address of which you apparently assume about me Mr. Johnson..... I am not seeking to prove whether one person or another is "Indian" or "Native". All I have said, is that people claiming to being Abenaki, ought to show and provide the genealogical and historical social history, as to their merits of their claims of being Abenaki, to the State of Vermont and or New Hampshire, so that the wannabe's can get sifted out of and from the mess thats been created here in Vermont and New Hampshire, what with everyone wanting to be Abenaki/ Indian wearing leathers and feathers and everyone reinventing themselves into being Abenaki Artists etc.
I would rather see the Vermont Legislature and the Governor of Vermont/N.H. gain clear and convincing....legitimate genealogical and historical social validating documentary evidence from the people and or "groups" claiming to being Abenakis from and of Vermont, rather than to be assaulted continuously year after year by a bunch of people decked out in leathers, feathers and a bunch of cow shit in their hands to show for it, demanding that the State of Vermont officially recognize their "incorporated" groups that were created since the mid- 1970's, or even since the year 2005 when in all likely they weren't Abenaki from and of Vermont or anywhere else to begin with!
I would rather see Official Abenaki Recognition go to legitimately documented & genealogically sourced "Abenaki" descendants, rather than to a bunch of idiots who claim to be "Abenaki" who have simply been starring down at their "privates" for far too long, rechecking to see if they are real or not; but when in factuality genealogically, these "groups" and their "leaders" are not Abenaki at all, nor are they willing to show the evidence genealogically that their claims, their proclamations, and their incoporated "groups" are legitimately "Abenaki".
I have never demanded anyone prove they were Indian or Native. If they have said or say they are Abenaki, then they very well ought to show and provide (without hesitation or protest) the definitive genealogical and or ancestors social evidence "from their ancestors" and not just from their own mouths or that of their living relatives!.

And if that is too difficult for people (such as your Grand Nephew or yourself Mr. C. Johnson) to understand "my position on this blog", then perhaps like Mr. C. Johnson here, maybe folks need to get better educated then to get their education from a Jersey Cow! Or looking "down south", at their privates all the time to make sure they are a man! Just my two cents worth regarding the comment submitted on Abenaki Pride Setting The Record Straight.

I have to laugh some more.......

August 22, 2001 Article - August 23, 2001 Article:

The Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire is another "Incorporation" and does not represent ALL Abenaki People/Descendants within the State of New Hampshire, as it's name attempts to imply. This article claims that human remains were found, whereas the Excutive director Will Abbott said only one tiny fragment of pottery was discoverd by an archaeologist who examined 18 test pits in the planned leach field for the visitor center of the Squams Lakes Natural Science Center, in Holderness, N.H.

The August 23, 2001 article states that Charles Francis True Jr. is the "Chief" of the 200 member Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire. WOW. Because when Charlie and his wife would pick me up for their "meetings" down in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, there would be no more than 15 to 20 people present for the whole meeting, sometimes even less! Of course, that was while back, and in August of 2001 perhaps there was 200 people following Charles F. True Jr., but in 2008 or so there wasn't more than 15 to 20 folks at the meetings from beginning to end of it. Regardless, this lower article (of Aug. 23, 2001) in the photograph shows, April St. Francis-Merrill, another unidentified man, etc., Charles F. True (with the medicine bag around his neck) Shirley Bear to his left, Tatjana A. Donovon. The latter two were once a part of Charlie True's Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire "group" or "incorporation".

July 07, 2001 Article - July 22, 2001 Article:

April St. Francis-Rushlow-Merrill claimed in this article of July 07, 2001 when Homer St. Francis Sr. died, that they were a descendants of Chief Grey Lock. Again, on January 11, 2003 in the Times Argus newspaper, April again stated, "What keeps me going is I’m doing this for the seven generations behind me. In our life system, you’re always doing it for the next seven generations and the next seven generations, whoever they are. Massacres, eugenics — they haven’t killed us out yet. A lot of us assimilated, but we have our own belief systems, we have our own culture. I know who I am and where I came from. I can trace my roots all the way back to chief Grey Lock in the 1700s, and then go back further than that."

April St. Francis - Rushlow - Merrill's ancestor (according to her and possibly from Mr. John Moody) was allegedly said to be "Francois St. Francis" born in May 1760 at Chambly. Francois' parents are given as Chief Francois Mitchell (who died June 1760 at Missisquoi in a battle with a group of Roger's Rangers) and his wife Marie Charlotte Nolette/ Wawanolet (born April 1737 at Fort St. Frederick). It was she who was the daughter of Chief Grey Lock according to the St. Francis family.

At first impression I guess one would conclude that April St. Francis-Merrill is an Abenaki descendant from Missisquoi as she alleges. But WAIT, here is the FACTUAL documented genealogical ancestry: From top to bottom (meaning down to April Merrill herself) her ancestors were François Semme dit Siroux dit St-François born in Rouen, Normandie, France who married to Élisabeth Isabelle Comeau September 29, 1772 at St. Joseph de Chambly, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada. Their son François Semme dit Siroux dit St. François born 1773 died December 11, 1845 at Marieville, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. He married in Marguerite Hébert dit Larose January 28, 1799 at St. Joseph de Chambly, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada. Their son Francis Mitchell Siroux Giroux dit St. Francis born 1811 and died in 1863 married Charlotte "Carol" LaCombe on November 13, 1827 at St. Mathias sur Richelieu, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Their son Mitchell Siroux Giroux dit St. Francis born in March 1835 in Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont married to Cordelia Colombe (dau. of Louis S. Coulombe Colomb and Sophie Charbonnier dit St. Laurent) in 1860 in Swanton. Their son Nazaire St. Francis born June 08, 1867 in Swanton, died May 18, 1936 in Swanton. He married to Clara Hogue (dau. of Fabien Hogue and Adèle Vêtu dit Bélair) on September 05 1891 in Swanton, Vermont. Their son Nazaire St. Francis born Jan 31 1891 in Swanton married Florence Hakey, and it was their son who was Homer Walter St. Francis born on January 19, 1935 in Swanton, Vermont who is April's father. Yes, there is some 'Huron and or Western Algonquin Native ancestry" in April St. Francis' Merrill's genealogical background, that being Roch Manintoubeouich / Manitouabeouichit born ca. 1600 in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada and his wife Outchibabhanoukoneau/ Outchibahabanoukouehou/squa born about 1606 at the same location. (Sherry Blanchard-Gould and Rhonda Besaw-True also share this couple in their perspective ancestries), Plus there is a few VERY distant (1600's) Mik'maq ancestors as well in her (April's) ancestry. So.....do the math. I don't see how the Swanton, Vermont "St. Francis family's ancestors" were "St. Francis Indians"/"Abenakis", let alone descendants of Grey Lock, who wasn't Abenaki in the first place! More genealogical information will be forthcoming on this blog from public sourced documents, on these people "reinventing themselves" into Vermont Abenakis. Grab your wader's, your hip-boots, and your paddle's (you don't want to lose one on the way into this mess).

Sagakwa Pow-wow Twin Mountain, N.H. June 30 - July 01, 2001

Richard "Dick" Boisvert was stating that perhaps some later cultural material has been missed Boisvert acknowledges, but he is confident that from top to bottom the teams' methods have been painstakingly thorough. "It's almost beyond my imagination," he says, "that there were later occupations that haven't shown up." It could be we haven't found them yet, but after four years I'm confident it's exclusively Paleo-Indian." So, there was no Abenaki Village ca. 1850 - 1880 found by anyone? WOW, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were Mr. Boisvert in the hopes of validating Ms. Millette-Doucet's "stories" that there was such an Abenaki Village where her Great Great Grandmother Almira Rines was born or raised in! Same goes for Almira's daughter too! Maybe Dick Boisvert ought to have become a genealogical researcher instead is my thoughts on the matter.

June 30 - July 1, 2001 Twin Mountain, NH Article http://www.twinmountain.org/sagakwa.html 603-846-5044. This is a gathering of all Indian nations, highlighting the Native people of New England, Hawaii and South America. There will be native arts and crafts, storytelling, drum circles, dancing, a recreated 18th century village, and a grand entry of dancers each day at noon. Admission for adults is five dollars, three dollars for children aged 6-16, and under six free. A great learning experience for the whole family!

Notice the name "Rose Hartwell", owner of the Dawnland Quillwork, in Pepperell, MA. Now take a look at this website link http://www.elnuabenakitribe.org/Nawihla2007.html.
This shows evidence that Rose Hartwell was an active participant in a proclaimed "re-enactor group" calling themselves (prior to 2005-2006) El-Nu. They did "re-enactments" at Fort Ticonderoga, etc, as did Jim and Terri Clothey. Then AFTER May 2006 etc this group then joined up with Nancy Millette-Cruger-Lyons (now Doucet) and whom now call themselves The El-Nu Abenaki Tribe. They even have a internet website and a Great Seal. But are any of these people, in whole or in part, actually Abenaki from and of Vermont and or New Hampshire ancestrally-speaking? The wearing of shoelace-less tennis shoes and playing a plywood hooped drum and at the same time claiming it was what the Abenaki used in 1609 or using fake imitation sinew does make me wonder if these folks are legitimately Abenaki or simply "Playing Indian" in Vermont and or New Hampshire! They were a part of Nancy Millette's Littleton and Twin Mountain event's, consistantly from the late 1990's all the way forward.... Then when Vermont signed the Bill S.117 Abenaki Recognition bill, this "group" calling themselves the El-Nu Abenaki Tribe or sub-tribe of the Koasek Abenaki then led by Co-Chief's Brian Chenevert and Nancy Millette Cruger Lyons, jumped on the bandwagon claiming they too were Vermont Abenakis. It all makes one wonder.

June 10, 2001 Stephen Laurent Article - June 28, 2001 Rick Hunt Article

I worked with Stephen "Atian" Laurent "L8l8" of Intervale, New Hampshire in his elder years of life, regarding the Abenaki Language. He was a kind hearted and soft spoken man. I remember him sitting on his porch waiting for my arrival on most occassions. He would get into my old van and we would go down to get his mail out of his mailbox and then over to the store down the street to get some store bought meals. I enjoyed and still cherish the times we spent together, limited as those times were wherein he would be speaking Abenaki and me trying to learn it. He helped me recreate Tape No. 4 of Dartmouth's Collection of Gordon Day's material. I sent Dartmouth a audio cassette of Tape Number 4.

It's not $85,000.00 dollar Language Grants that I was ever interested in back then or nowadays. In retrospect, it was the small endeavors, the meager shoe-string $20.00 dollar trips that meant the most, and it was what went the farthest I think, in the long run. Just like going up to Odanak, Quebec, Canada to visit with Cecile Wawanolette to get her material from Swanton put onto audio cassette. I had probably $40.00 to get to Odanak, and a little under $20.00 to get back down home back then. I bought Joseph Laurent's original dictionary for $20.00 dollars from Steven Laurent. It was written in the back and front by Atian himself. It was a kindness he showed to me when he let me borrow the CD Masters of Father Aubrey's Dictionary but it was also a cherished trust he gave to me, a younger person I will never forget; so that I could get duplicate's. He said, "here, you take these, and when your done with them, bring them back". I took them to Patricia Lilly's home in Ossipee, N.H. and we had two audio cassette double-tape machines going non-stop to get the audio tapes duplicated since we didn't have a CD burner set up sadly said at the time.

The June 26, 2001 Rick Hunt artist article, I find most interesting, in that Rick Hunt stated, "that he was Abenaki", just like his cousin Nancy Millette Cruger was doing. But again, where is the genealogical evidence from their ancestry to show this was true? Oh, thats right, anyone who demands or even hints at asking for the genealogical proof/evidence is perpetuating "genealogical genocide" against these people. "Playing Indian" in the Vermont/New Hampshire area has become quite popular and profitable over the years to some and to many.

April 19, 2001 Courier Article......

Nancy Millette-Cruger (at the time) stated, "I came on board to manage and promote Howard Lyons last season and we both felt New England promotion would be of benefit to his career," Cruger said. "We predicted it would take some time to get established in this area, but we have already exceeded our expectations! I am very pleased to see New England recognize the talent of Howard Lyons!" [Nancy] Cruger is also of Native American (Abenaki) decent and holds a titled of ambassador. Really, where is the Abenaki ancestry?! This alleged "Abenaki ancestry" of Nancy Millette a.k.a. Nancy Doucet (as she is called today) will be addressed documentarily later on in this blog.

Feb. 15, 2001 - March 14, 2001 Articles plus some other good stuff.

Mr. Frederick Wiseman himself stated in this first article "that the purpose of his opening up the "museum" and "Cultural Center" was for the benefit of Official Recognition, either from the State of Vermont and or from the Federal United States Government. Quote, "through that Recognition, the Abenaki will be able to gain access to the $$$$MONEY$$$$. They will say they need the money to get out of being unemployed, to combat low education levels, and to fend off poverty. Perhaps, but then again, I doubt it. At 37 years old Fred Wiseman at the age of 51 years old, admits that he became aware of his Abenaki heritage at the age of 37 years old. That is interesting......so what was happening before the age of 37 years? Was he simply not able to know that he was allegedly "Abenaki", or was it simply that he didn't realize he wasn't wearing pants one day, and decided to put some on, and then say he was always a pants wearing kind of guy? I do have to wonder. Where were his Elders to inform him he was "allegedly Abenaki" before the age of 37? Were they unable to inform Mr. Wiseman before the age of 37, and if so, why? I find this all so very interesting indeed, that at the age of 37 years, one suddenly becomes aware of their Abenaki "heritage" and seemingly before that, there was no awareness of "heritage"?

On February 15, 2001 in the Courier there in Littleton, N.H. Nancy Millette (now Nancy Doucet), at that time a promoter for Howard Lyons, put another article in the newspaper.

On March 14, 2001 on Page 07 of the Coos County Democrat newspaper, Frederick M. Wiseman's book was being evaluated by Edith Tucker, who was periodicly writing about the Jefferson, N.H. Archaeological "digs". It is most interesting that Fred Wiseman stated, "that the nomadic hunters who visited Jefferson shortly after the glaciers melted over 10,000 years ago, were genetically the ancestors of the Abenaki." REALLY?! Hmmmm I have seen no reports of human remains having been found in the Jefferson, N.H. Archaeological site area's, in which to test a male comparatively to that of that nomadic hunter's direct male descendant, who may or may not claim to be an Abenaki of today. So how does the math add up to Mr. Wiseman's statement in this article?! Maybe we can bring the nomadic hunter back to life, ask him for a cheek swab, and then cheek swab Mr. Wiseman, since he claims to be "Abenaki", and then since he claims these nomadic hunters/people's were genetically ancestral to the Abenaki, the Y-DNA ought to match right up with few mutations in between. Anyone want to wager dollars to donuts, the math nor the Y-DNA numbers don't match up?! I do have to laugh. But go ahead, check out the book from your local library and compare FACT from FICTION. Do the math and see for yourself what is real and what isn't real.