Documents Where Charles F. True Jr. Signed N.H. Gov't Papers; ETC:

Document 3: Allan Martell, President of the Incoporation calling itself the "Abenaki Indian Center" of Manchester, N.H. created another Incorporation calling itself "Ndakinna Incorporated" of which he also was "President" of, or Chairman of this Incorporation.

Charles Francis True, Jr. signed as Vice-President of this Ndakinna Inc. (Sub-Chief?), and Brian S. Blanchard also signed on the dotted line as one of the Board of Directors of this Incorporation. Sherry Gould is a sibling of Brian Blanchard. When Allan J. Martell "got into a altercation" with the late Homer St. Francis, he packed the boxes in his vehicle and took the boxes of papers to Charles True's home in Epping, N.H. and thus begat Charles F. True taking on the role of "Speaker" for this Incorporation. Early on in this blog I spoke of what was told to me from Sherry Gould and from Charles Francis True himself about what happened regarding the Abenaki Indian Center and this Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire, and Ndakinna Inc.

The point is, IF the children of the Abenaki need not have a "Card" to know and to express who they are, nor do they need to seek out the New Hampshire or Vermont Government, then why is it that these documents show the alleged Abenaki adults having scrambbled and ran to the Government of both of these Commonwealths to express who they are?!

Just my thoughts on the matter.

A Response to Charles Francis True, Jr. Diatribe and his Wall of SIlence:

Posting by Charlie True on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 via "Abenaki Pride Setting the Record Straight" Blog:
When Douglas Lloyd Buchholz began his lengthy campaign to prove that there are few, if any, real Abenaki people left in New England (No, I am not "on a campaign" to prove that there are few, if any, real Abenaki People left in New England....just that "these groups and or persons claiming to represent the Abenaki , who are coming to and in front of the Vermont and New Hampshire Legislature's and Governor's ARE NOT the legitimate documented Abenaki People nor are they legitimate documented descendants of the Abenaki!) , my first thought was that we should put up what I call a “wall of silence” concerning him (I am oh...so scared...of this so-called "Wall of Silence" Quick, grab yer gun ma, the "Wall of Silence" is a'comin'). His very public, hurtful treatment of our people deserves such a reaction from us ("hurtful treatment?" Give me a break, these documents are their FACTUAL HISTORICAL RECORDS that need to be shown, provided, and reviewed by the Vermont and N.H. Governor's and Attorney General's Office's, as well as the Legislative Rep's, including the Vermont/N.H. Public), and, I believe, would reflect traditional behavior toward someone who has dishonored us (NO, these alleged reinvented Abenaki "groups" have DISHONORED THEIR OWN ANCESTORS and THEMSELVES based on their own factual historical lies, deceptions, deceitfulness, and manipulations against the real legitimately documented Abenaki People!). I was also aware of his history of craving constant attention (No, it actual was not my endeavor to do this Reinvention of the Vermont Abenaki, because retrospectively I had been trying to PROVE the merits of these groups claims, and after reading that BIA conclusions regarding Swanton's alleged contemporary Abenaki group, and listening to the Grandma Said So Stories of Nancy Millette Doucet, I came away with documents that proved their claims were unfounded and in conclusion, I have found that these groups have absolutely NO documentary evidence or foundation to their claims of being Abenakis); he has gone to great (outlandish) lengths to call attention to himself (NO, the attention I am trying to call attention to is that these people ~ such as Charles Francis True, Jr. after 63 years, cannot and will not substantiate "from his ancestors", that he's Abenaki, He has no documentary evidence "from his ancestors" that they were Abenaki). I did not want to feed that need. (NO, it is because he knew that since he had actually NOTHING documentarily-speaking, to show and provide anyone, that indeed his ancestors were of the Abenaki People, that I was becoming a threat to his little fantasy world of being an Abenaki). That’s why I have remained silent until now.
So why am I speaking up now? An attack on me personally means little or nothing to me, since I have nothing to hide from anyone. (Really?, Charles F. True Jr. has one aspect of himself to hide, its that he's unable to show and provide ANY convincing evidence from his ancestors that he's indeed from the Abenaki.) Some of our people call me “speaker”. (Fewer and fewer "followers" in fact are looking at him in this self proclaimed function he claims to have, and they have been leaving his "group" as well) That’s not a big deal; never has been. We have joined together in circles over the years, where my voice had equal value with others in the circle. Occasionally one person is required to speak for the group, and I was the person selected for the task. I need to speak up and point out that Douglas’ “history” of the Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire is rife with errors. Names, dates, places, events are all wrong. (Well, the information...names, dates, places, and events...was gained from Sherry Gould, and from sourced actual documents. Brian Blanchard, signed the Inc. papers as well, and Sherry Gould was also present at these "meetings". I doubt she was distorting or lieing about what she knew of those events, etc. but then again today I do not trust anything about what Charles F. True Jr. has to say)  There are quite a few people out there who can attest to this. ("Few" is the operative word) I could list each item individually, numbering each item, so that no one has to “do the math” as Douglas likes to say (But Charles F. True doesn't provide ANY facts; he just alleges that my research is allegedly is in error). But I have more important things to share at this time. I would only point out that someone who purports to be our “modern day historian” has more research to do (Yes, indeed I am doing further research into all aspects of the documented historical records of these "groups" alleging to be Abenakis; and no, I never purported to be the absolutely definitively accurate "modern day historian" of these alleged reinvented Abenaki of Vermont/New Hampshire, but these "groups" and their representatives simply "hide in plain sight" showing nothing to prove my conclusions are wrong, and simply put up a "Wall of Silence", hoping that everyone will simply not notice their historical records are being exposed and showing to the public that they are NOT who they purport to be); more attention to the actual facts, before he shares his masterpiece with the whole world. (Indeed, these "groups" and their representative's would like nothing better than for me to slow down, or better yet, shut up and shut down, so they can bullsh** the State Governor's and Legislature's, what with their attempting to convince the Governors and Archaelogical Agencies and Legislative Representatives, WITHOUT THE REQUIREMENT OF SHOWING AND PROVIDING CONVINCING GENEALOGICAL OR HISTORICALLY SOCIAL EVIDENCE, THAT THEY ARE INDEED FROM THE ABENAKI OF VERMONT OR NEW HAMPSHIRE!) A historian has a responsibility to research and report the known facts, in as objective a manner as possible. (Oh, you mean like Frederick Matthew Wiseman and John Moody have allegedly done?!)
Douglas has obviously selected out his “truths” to support a very subjective (obsessive I would say) thesis (Really? I simply take the documentation as I find it or recieve it; IF there is "something out there" that would paint this picture of these "groups" in a prettier color or such, then provide that evidence to me and I will grab the paint brushes and put it on the blog.): “Just about everyone here in New England and beyond who says they’re Abenaki is an outright liar.” (I have never stated or even implied "that just about everyone here in New England and beyond who SAYS their Abenaki is an outright liar"; what I have stated and implied is that just having MOUTH ~hearsay b.s. Grandma-Said-So-Stories and with nothing to substantiate those oral "stories" ~meaning that one has NOTHING IN HAND FROM THEIR ANCESTORS, documentarily-speaking from those ancestors~ makes for sloppiness, weakness, and allows imposters, and "wannabe's" to infringe on the sovereignty and intergrity of those that have legitimate genealogical records, evidence, and documents that substantiate that they are legitimately FROM THE ABENAKI PEOPLE/ ANCESTORS.) Incidentally, I have myself known many Abenaki people who have worked hard to accomplish, or attempt to accomplish, positive things for our people. Shouldn’t a comprehensive “history” of our times report such selfless acts occasionally? It’s obvious to me that Douglas has chosen to dwell only on negatives. (I am not into "airbrushing" around the edges of these documents with the prettiness of what these "groups" may or may not have done in the past or comtemporarily do, to try and bury the b.s. deceit, lies, manipulations, and illusions they have used to cause people in the Government and the Public to NOT look at the foundation or merits genealogically of these "groups" alleged leaders, speakers, representatives, Chiefs and their "followers"/Members/Citizens. Like I said before on this blog, planting flowers in a bucket of sh** may look nice, it may even smell pretty, but underneath all of it, its still a pile of crap. Secondly, Charles Francis True Jr. may say I am putting out or airing out all these alleged and reinvented Abenaki group's "political dirty laundry". Yet, when I take dirty laundry and put it in the washing machine, with some Tide Laundry Detergent, usually the laundry comes out at least a little bit cleaner and whiter. But, when one takes a bucket of shit and shovels it into the washing machine, with a bit of Tide Detergent....what comes out of that Washer is still shit, even if it smells a little nicer!)
One of the underlying implications of Douglas’ blog, in my opinion, is that it’s time for our people to just “lay down and die”. (NO, that is not the underlying implication of my blog. The underlying implication is that these "groups" of created and reinvented "groups" of people or persons who are claiming to be Abenakis from Vermont and or New Hampshire, based on their own actions and words, may very well NOT be Abenaki at all. The process of gaining ANY STATE RECOGNITION by any method, whether it be a Governor's Proclamation or a created New Hampshire or Vermont State Commission on Native American Affairs, ought to be based first and foremost starting on GENEALOGICAL EVIDENCE both ancestorally and on the historical social evidence from one's ancsetors. Nothing more, nothing less. But apparently this "genelaogical requirement" threatens these "groups" proclaiming to being Abenakis within N.H. and Vermont) . It’s time for us to say to the dominant culture: “You’ve been right all along. The Abenaki people never existed in your state (Tell that to the Nollette's, the Watso's, the Laurent's, and to a thousand other legitimately documented Abenaki families that have lived in Vermont and New Hamsphire!), were all killed, or ran away from our homeland to Canada (Some families did leave, some came back, and some never left Vermont or New Hampshire) . We’ve just been playing at being Indians (Yes, some peoples and these "groups" I strongly suspect "have been playing at being Abenaki Indians", without the genealogical documentation or social historical records to show and provide that indeed they are legitmately Abenaki descendants), but we’ve been caught up with.” (indeed that seems to be the reality of it, doesn't it? Time and facts will show if this is true). When I was still on speaking terms with Douglas, and began to realize the direction in which he was going, I repeatedly tried to convince him that he was about to do major harm to the Abenaki people. (No, when Charles Francis True, Jr. was on speaking terms with me, and he began to realize the direction I was going and the awareness that I was gaining, he realized that his lack of documentation of being Abenaki "from his ancestors" was going to catch up with him too; and as for allegedly doing major harm to the Alleged - Reinvented Vermont or N.H. Abenaki People, that is true; but the legitimate documented Abenaki descendants in Vermont, New Hampshire, etc have actually NOTHING to fear from what my position is, or what this blog's content has been or will be). We didn’t need more public airing of our political dirty laundry. (Thats not exactly what I would call the factual documentation on this blog, it is the historical records as they are, pertaining to these alleged Abenaki "groups", and I and others conclude that the showing and providing of these documents are EXACTLY what needs to happen, to show the Vermont/New Hampshire Government EXACTLY whats been going on in relation to these alleged and reinvented Abenaki "groups"). We especially didn’t need more rubbing of salt in that Abenaki wound of having little or no documentation of our ancestral heritage. (Instead of throwing a temper-tantrum about this blog, ask yourselves WHY IS IT that these person's, such as Charles Francis True Jr., have little nor NO DOCUMENTATION as to their alleged Abenaki Ancestral connections/heritage?! Is it because they have indeed been "Playing Abenaki Indian" and they are NOT ABENAKI at all?!)
I have observed over the years the pain experienced by Abenaki people who could not produce a piece of paper that would cause a white person to say: “Yup, by God, you really are one of them there Injun people aintcha?” (Indeed, Charles Francis True Jr. would gladly accept the notion "that just saying one is Abenaki, is good enough" and that is all that is needed, to strengthen the Abenaki People. It's merely a mirroring his own reality. Because IF it is not required to show and provide some convincing physical evidence of one's ancestral genealogical and social documentation that one is indeed of Abenaki ancestry, then he himself will not have to be required to show and provide anything documentarily either, and he can keep on "Playing Abenaki Indian" and proclaiming that he is a "Speaker" of the "Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire, Incorporated".) In those days I often joked (but I was half serious) with Douglas that he should apply for a job in the Vermont Attorney General’s office because they would have to love him; he was working hard to support their claim that there were no valid Abenakis living in Vermont today. (Oh yet again, Charles Francis True, Jr. assumes that I ought to work for William Sorrell, the Vt. State's Attorney General; and that I have been working hard to support the State's claim that there were no valid Abenakis living in Vermont today; No, that is NOT what I have been trying to prove.) I don’t think he ever got my point. (I got Charlie True's point perfectly clear....I was gaining an awareness that was becoming a threat to his little fantasy world that existed in his own mind, that he was an Abenaki descendant, but he has had nothing in-hand from any of his ancestry to prove his claims.
ASK YOURSELVES THIS: If there are legitimately documented Abenakis who  can show their Abenaki Ancestral Connections, without hesitation or protest, and also can provide and show the genealogical and historical social evidence of their ancestors, WHY IS IT that Charles F. True Jr., Howard F. Knight Jr., Paul Wilson Pouliot, etc., etc. CANNOT do the same, WILL NOT do the same? Why is it that these "groups" and their "representative's" are the one's approaching and interacting with the Vermont and New Hampshire Legislature's and Governor's Office Agencies, proclaiming that they are Abenakis from and of Vermont and or New Hamsphire, when in fact, these groups and their "Speakers", their "Chiefs", and 95% perccent of their Card holding "Members" or "Citizens" CANNOT and WILL NOT show and provide ANY evidence of their genealogical connections to any known Abenaki documented family or community?! Why is it that the Governments of Vermont and New Hampshire even consider entertaining having these people sit at the table, trying to create a Native American Commission on Native American Affairs in both Vermont through Abenaki Recogntion Bill S.117 signed May 2006....and New Hampshire...currently being discussed by N.H. Legislative Representives, John and Donna Moody, Nancy Millette- Doucet, Sherry Gould, Paul Wilson Pouliot and his wife Denise, Rick Pouliot, and numerous others. 95% percent of these parties are very likely NOT documented of Abenaki descent. 

According to recently recieved documentation, Sherry Gould's created Wijokadoak, Inc. President Peter Newell, Chief of New Hampshire Native American Intertribal Council, of Laconia, N.H., who is the son of Bob Newell, a legitimate member of the Old Town, Maine Penobscot Indian Community, is also involved in this endeavor to have created a NHCNA (New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs. Peter Newell also attended Nancy Millette - Doucet's "Unity Meetings in early 2006. (See http://www.elnuabenakitribe.org/Inter-TribalPhotos.html) Peter Newell is the man in the Carhartt brown jacket. Nancy Millette (now Doucet) stands behind Peter Newell's left shoulder. The second photograph in the top right corner, the man in the headband, and white beard, and stroke glasses is Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. In the "minutes" of the NH Intertribal Native American Council Inc. "Chief"/President of that Incorporation is Peter Newell, Vice-Chief/Vice President was John Kelleher, Recording Secretary was Marguerite Kelleher, Treasurer was Sandy Chase, and there were 3 other Board of Director members. On page 3 of this online newsletter of August 02 2006 See: http://nhitnac.tripod.com/october2006newsltr.html Sherry Gould stated that she came to the NH Intertribal meeting to seek an Administrative Agent to recieve Grants and other non-taxable income. Her created Inc. was called Wijokadoak. Peter Newell is on the Wijokadoak, Inc. Board of Directors See: http://www.wijokadoak.com/board.html Executive Director Sherry L Gould; Board of Directors Peter Newell, President Chief of New Hampshire Native American Intertribal Council, Penobscot; Lynn Clowes, Vice President Director of the Cultural Competency Group, NH Minority Health Coalition, Micmac; Anita Blanchard, Treasurer (Sherry Gould's mother) Accounting Manager, Whaleback Systems Corporation, Abenaki; Marlene French, Secretary Smart Care Program Manager, Lutheran Community Services, Metis; David Stewart-Smith Ethno-historian, Pennacook / Abenaki. Tatjana Donovon was Sherry Gould's Treasurer/Accountant but she left that endeavor; and I myself left that Sherry Gould/ Wijokadoak, Inc. Language endeavor. Sherry Gould recieved through this Incorporation an Abenaki Language Grant from ANA (Administration for Native Americans) in the amount of $83, 605.00 dollars. How much does it cost to speak Abenaki? The answer: N-O-T-H-I-N-G. How much does it cost to learn or revive our Abenaki Language. The answer is nothing. One just speaks the language to another person! So, who is profiting monetarily or otherwise from the lack of the Abenaki Language being spoken today by Abenakis? Do we need Incorporations to be created, Monetary Grants, and so forth in order to simply speak Abenaki?! Ask most Penobscot Indian People whether or not they are related to the Western Abenaki, and they will say no, they are not. The Penobscot are not affiliated with the Abenakis today, and distance themselves from the Abenaki of New England. I've got more documentary evidence: On page 02of 24 pages of Wijokadoak Abenaki Language Project it states that the 5th strategic goal is to achieve a commission on Native American Affairs in the State of New Hampshire in coopreation with the New Hampshire Native American Intertribal Council. On Page 03 of 24, it states "The next project is to support to the New Hampshire Intertribal Council for the formation of a Governor's Commission on Native Affairs. A small grant has been submitted to teh New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to fund inicidental expenses associated with this project such as office supply costs and travel reimbursement for volunteers assisting the Governor's Staff in the formation of the Commission." What it sounds like to me, is that because Nancy Millette - Doucet and these other parties/ alleged and reinvented Abenaki "groups" are now approaching the political system of New Hampshire whether through the Governor's Office via the Executive Council Members, or through the N.H. Legislative Representive's to get what they couldn't get from Vermont's Governor and or Legislature. These alleged Abenaki "Incorporation's" sh** all over Vermont, and made a mess of things....and now they "jumped the river" into New Hampshire and are trying to make another mess in this State of New Hampshire, without any requirement of their ancestor's genealogical evidence connecting these alleged Abenaki descendants claiming to being Abenakis, to the historically known and documented Abenaki families! Don't think for one second that Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. won't jump on this N.H. Commission on Native American Affairs endeavor/petition, just like he and his Co-Chief's Nancy Millette-Doucet and Brian Chenevert did over in Vermont! His relatives live and continue to live in New Hampshire, jusy like they do in Vermont.
Yet the people who can and do have supporting genealogical and historically social evidence that they are indeed from the Western Abenaki People, are left unaware of what these "groups" and their "representatives" are doing! Why are not the Watso's, the Laurent's, the Nollett's, the O'bomsawin's, and various others, to name just a very few legitimate Abenaki documented families within Vermont and New Hampshire not part of these "groups" addressing the State of New Hampshire and or Vermont for State Recognition? Most importantly, why isn't the Governor's and Legistlature's of these two Commonwealth's demanding to speak with and address ONLY those Abenakis who have the legitimate genealogical and historically social evidence that indeed they are descendants of the Abenaki People?! WHY is it that the Governor's and Legislatures have not REQUIRED that these "groups" and their so-called "Chiefs" or "Speakers" PROVE DOCUMENTARILY that they are GENEALOGICALLY of Abenaki ancestry?

WHY is it, that the legitimately documented genealogically connected Abenaki and their descendants who come from a known historical Abenaki COMMUNITY ~Odanak~ NOT been appointed to the Chairman position  of the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs by the Governor of Vermont Jim Douglas? We have seen Mark Mitchell, Donald Stevens come into this posiiton, and they both have gone bye-bye, because they couldn't manipulate the VCNAA, etc. Now we have Charles Delaney as Chairman of the VCNAA, who historically has been or is still a part of the late deceased Homer St. Francis "group" now led by April Merrill of Swanton, Vermont. This "group" of self-proclaiming yet alleged "Missisquoi St. Francis/Sokoki Abenakis" could not show and provide, after 38+ years, that there was even one (1) single person, aside from the O'bomsawin descendants such as Jeanne Brink, were of Abenaki/Sokoki descent!


In my estimation, at least 95% of Abenaki descendants today have no paper documentation of their heritage. (That is B.S., 95% percent of Abenaki People's and their descendants DO have paper documentation of their ancestry and their heritage; it is the 5% percent such as Charles Francis True Jr. who cannot and very likely do not have any connection genealogically to Abenaki ancestors! IF such an estimation were true, then how come the Abenakis, such as the Watso's, the M'sadeques', the Nollette's, the O'bomsawin's and their married-in surname descendants, ALL OF THEM can show their paper documentation of their Abenaki ancestry and heritage...and they have lived in Vermont and New Hampshire since ca. 1850 all the way up to present time...and their vital records etc were not burned, destroyed...nor were they in the Eugenic's Program...and they ARE DOCUMENTED ABENAKIS) When I first learned that our immediate forebears were “hiding in plain sight”, that is avoiding any public record of their heritage, I was angry. (This is only "a good excuse" for one's LACK OF THEIR genealogical record, kinda like "the dog ate my homework"...Abenakis and other Native People's ancestors did not live in glass houses nor did they live in isolation.) In time though, understanding that native people are, above all, about the survival of the people, I came to understand that they were protecting their children; that assimilation into the white world was the only way they could survive. And the documents of the time reflect that sense of survival. At that time everyone must be white. (Tell that to those that were from the Watso family! Tell that to other documented genealogical Abenaki families who have lived in Vermont and or New Hamsphire who were and are documented as Indian, Abenaki! Tell that to the Native People's in Maine, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York; they have had the same socially historical dynamic's going on, YET they still maintained and retained their Abenaki Ancestral connections documentarily and genealogically! What is Charles F. True Jr. trying to imply here, that Abenakis are seperate from every other Native People's surrounding them. That Abenakis are a special species of Native American's who lived in a petri dish?!)
But we do exist, and we will continue to exist. (Yes, one may exist and will continue to exist but without the Abenaki ancestral connections, documentarily and genealogically being found and secured, sorry the one's who are left unable to show and provide nothing, have to be questioned and looked upon with suspicion as to whether they are legititmately from the Abenaki People)  Sorry, Douglas, we’re not convinced that it’s time to bring an end to our people. (Reminds me of bed-bugs or cock roaches that refuse to go away; but either way the purpose of this blog nor my words have never been "to bring an end to anyone") And if a group of Abenaki grandmothers got together, I think you would be marched out of town real fast. (IF the ancestral grandmothers of the Abenaki People were to know what is happening today in "that anyone can say they are Abenaki, without a connection to those Abenaki ancestors or having come from a historical Abenaki Commnunity, I am sure they would just as likely march Charles F. True Jr. out of town for impersonating an Abenaki! Right along with his alleged 2nd wife who claims to be from the Western and Eastern Abenaki!) Hopefully, we will come to ignore you (what? with your "Wall of Silence" Charles True? Please, do me the favor!), except of course those people who may seek to benefit somehow from your negative campaign.
There are and will be children among us, some with blond hair and blue eyes, who are destined to carry forward the embers of our ancestral fires. (One cannot carry forward the embers of the Abenaki ancestral fires IF they are not from Abenaki ancestry; anyone can say they are Abenaki these days since genealogical evidence /proof is not required). They need a lot of help from us in preparing for that, because they face a very difficult walk going forward. (Obviously, it will be a very difficult walk going forward, because the present generation, such as Charlie True, have not proven documentarily-speaking, that they are even Abenaki in the first place! It's difficult to perpetuate a distortion one has created, a lie, when the truth is sitting there waiting to be discovered that one's ancestors are NOT Abenaki at all, but English!)
I’d like to share with you some of the adult behaviors that I have seen, and assume these children are also seeing. Over the years I’ve noticed an increasing, almost frantic, search for a genealogical record that says “Indian” or “Abenaki”. There’s nothing wrong with searching for our historic ancestors; it’s good to understand as much as possible about who we came from. But when we feel an absolute need for “Indian” documents to prove our Abenaki ancestry to someone, we are playing a “white man’s” game, and missing a central point for ourselves. (Really? "A White Man's Game" eh? So, according to Charles F. True Jr. ALL the Native Communities across North America, more closely Kahnewake, Old Town, Odanak, Wolinak, Akwesasne etc WHO REQUIRE GENEALOCIAL PROOF OF being Mohawk, Penobscot, or Abenaki and having an ancestral connection ON PAPER, are "playing the white man game"?). Perhaps Douglas would prefer that our people cower in a corner, or stay in a closet, because they have not located that elusive document. (The genealgocial and historical social documentation is out there to be found, directly or indirectly; I've proven such is the reality with researching numerous families, including my own ancestors!) Do our children really need that piece of paper to know, and to express, who they are? (In simple answer to this question, YES. Because without it, it is GENOCIDE being perpetuated against those Abenaki Ancestors and their descendants!)
Band or tribal I.D. cards seem to be much sought after. Years ago, when a sizeable number of members in our group insisted that we should have cards, a member of our council, who was motivated by a personal need at the time, was selected to make up a draft card for us. Her sample was modeled on cards in use by another group at the time. When I saw the proposed format, turned the card over and started to read the top line, I did an uncharacteristic “head through the ceiling” maneuver. The heading on the back said something like: “This is to convey Indian status on….” When I retained my composure, I said: “We do not convey Indian status on anyone; only the Creator does that!” We have never issued “Indian cards”. Do our children really need them to know who they are? (Well, whats the difference between a tribal I.D. Card or signing one's name to an Incorporation paper as a Vice President of that Incorporation? NOTHING, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE).
During the time that legislation was passed in Vermont supposedly “recognizing” the Abenaki people and others, my dear wife Rhonda, the computer-literate one in the family, shared with me such e-mail comments as: “We are recognized at last. Now I can proudly say that I’m Abenaki.” Huh? Were there really Abenaki people out there depending on a government to say that it was O.K. to be who you always knew you were? (Charles F. True, Rhonda Lou nee: Besaw, Alice Stevens, Allan Martell, Brian Blanchard, etc all "signed on the dotted line" of their Incorporation Papers in the New Hampshire Government; they have property that they pay taxes on, they own cars that they pay taxes on, etc so they are all dependant on a government in many ways) Do we want our children to look to governments to validate who they are? (Apparently, ALOT of these "groups" proclaiming they are Abenakis, "incorporated" repeatedly, to try and validate who they allegedly claim to be!)
There are many more examples of people seeking their indianess outside of themselves, who don’t seem to understand that they’re missing the central point, and may be misleading the children who will carry our embers forward. (Without the genealogical evidence etc in hand, to show and provide, without hesitation and or protest, that one is of the Abenaki People/ Ancestors, perhaps it is Charles True and many many others who are misleading not only the Vermont and New Hampshire Governors and Legislative Representative's but also their own children who are just as naive and ignorant, that these people may not be connected to the Abenaki ancestors in the first place?!) Folks, we may be missing the central lesson that our children need to learn. Instead of looking outward, we need to look downward, as we stand on our homeland, between our own two feet. (More likely, one needs to look inward, not downward except maybe in shame, because they have nothing to show or provide that they are even speaking the truth about their ancestors being Abenaki! Maybe shame at not taking the time, accountabilty, and responsibility to honestly substantiate their Grandma Said So "stories") The children need to learn that the strength, wisdom and spirit of our ancestors have their source in something that’s still available to us, and that they need. Mother Earth literally vibrates with the creative energy that flows through all living things. (Charles True forgot to mention that Indians talk to the trees, Indians can shapeshift, that Animals can talk to Indians, and Indians never climbed to the top of the White Mountains). We need to teach our children, before anything else, that this energy can flow through them, if they seek it, and that it is a source, through their Abenaki ancestry, of great power. Let’s stop playing our ridiculous adult games and start teaching them where they really come from, so that they can go forward with the real ancestral strength that they will need. (First, one ought to have the ability to substantiate genealogically that one comes from the Abenaki People in the first place, before one claims that one can even begin to use allegedly "that source of great power", through an Abenaki ancestry. Matter of fact, it sounds to me like Charles Francis True, Jr. has been watching too many times that Harry Potter series of movies! Watso and Elie, etc. were and are "just another two Abenaki Indians" up in Odanak, Quebec in their community, BUT when they left Odanak and came down to the States, BAMM they dawned some sort of magical cloaks, and they became Super Abenakis, capes and all. No disrespect intended, but Abenakis are just Abenakis or Aln8bak, and I hate to burst anyone's bubble or grand thinking but sorry, there is NO SPECIAL POWERS in anyone's Abenaki Cereal Box, no Abenaki Power Rings are granted just because one is Abenaki. Again Abenakis are not a special seperate species compared to other Native People's or even "The White Man")
And as for you, Douglas Lloyd Buchholz, our people in time will put up a “wall of silence” (Again, Charles Francis True Jr. this so-called "Wall of Silence" that has been recently all over the Yahoo Group Olidahozi, does not threaten or concern me; you reside a mere 8 miles south of me, and when we were on speaking terms, neither you nor your wife Rhonda ever bothered to knock on my door "as friends" when you came into Lancaster to say hello or to see how I was doing,in all the time I have known the both of you though you stated you both were my friends . That reality told me something. So did the Chickadee's! What you were doing in our alleged friendship was "keeping your friends close and your enemies closer", you both didn't honestly trust me and perhaps never did; and I began to distrust your alleged friendships with me. If anyone has allegedly done a great harm to the Abenaki People, it is you Charles Francis True, Jr., who cannot show or provide any legitimate evidence that your claims of being an Abenaki descendant is truthful after 63 years of life; and yet you state you are a "Speaker of the Abenaki" implying that you represent the whole Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire! I am one person, 8 miles north of you, who knows you are not a Speaker of the Abenaki People at all, but merely a President of an Incorporation. Alot of people have left your "Circle" in years past, and most recently Paul Frechette and Jennifer Cattin; do you honestly think you can be a "Speaker of the Abenaki" when you have no substantiated Abenaki People "following you" Charlie True?) and look for someone else to tell the full story of the Abenaki people in recent times. (Yes, go looking for someone else to tell the full story of the Abenaki people in recent times....someone who will pull the rabbit out of the hat, who will airbush around the edges of this disgusting historical picture of these Wannabe Groups of Abenaki People's who have perpetuated geneocide against the real legitimately documented Abenaki People's and Ancestors! Perhaps Frederick M. Wiseman and or John Moody (your buddy there) can write a wonderful story that covers up the factual historical records of all this "negativity" that has happened within these very alleged Reinvented Abenakis of Vermont ~and~ New Hampshire! Yes, keep looking for someone to rewrite the legitimate Abenaki ancestors history, implanting yourselves over the top of those Abenaki ancestral bones, who are not your ancestors, with your own b.s., right along with your allegedly looking for someone to replace you as "Speaker", when in fact there was and is never any intention of truth to that endeavor, just like Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. stating repeatedly that he was allegedly retiring!
And as we, and our children, become more and more rooted in the spiritual energy of our homeland (sounds to me like more New Age b.s. and fantasy world thinking that "if one lives in a place long enough, a person becomes part of that place" if you ask me. On some level I agree, BUT if I move to Rosebud, South Dakota and live there for X amount of years that still does not make me a Lakota,  or if I live a long time in or near Old Town, Maine that still doesn't make me a Penobscot either!), we will become stronger against the negative energy that you and others have chosen to bring to us. (Charles Francis True Jr, and others, gave me no choice but to bring into reality this blog of their actions and words against me and to the known legitimately documented genealogically connected Abenakis. Genocide and Stealing of Abenaki Identity does not sit well with my ancestors nor should it settle well with anyone in the Vermont or New Hampshire Governor's Office's or the Legislature's of these two Commonwealth's!; The only reason this blog may seemingly be "negative in energy is because this alleged Reinvented Abenaki crap going in Vermont and New Hampshire by these groups and their representatives have operated and conducted themselves historically and comtemporarily in negative energy. I have yet to be documentarily proven wrong in my conclusions. They are NOT from legitimate historical Abenaki Communities; nor are 95% percent of them ~let alone 25 percent of them ~documented genealogically as descendants of the historical Abenaki People!) Then we will be truly healed from the painful sicknesses that have been part of our recent history. (The ONLY way these people can truly heal from the painful sickness that afflicts them as a part of their historical record, is to acknowlege and prove their genealogical connection to the Abenaki ancestors and communities! Not look downward between their feet at the ground they stand on as Mr. True said, but look inward and STOP addressing the Governments of Vermont and or New Hampshire thinking they will get something from such. But they won't stop this crap. They will continue to do as they have always done, claiming that I am negative, that I am sick, that I am this or that, that I am attempting to destroy the Abenaki People. That I work for Paul Pouliot, the Government, William Sorrell, the State of Vermont, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., or the S.T.D. Police. Total absurdities. These "alleged Abenaki "groups" and their representatives will continue to protest and hesitate when confronted and questioned as to the merits of their proclaimations of being genuinely from the Abenaki Ancestors and People. They will put up their so-called "Wall of Silence".)
Now that I’ve shared some of my heartfelt opinions with you, it appears to me that maybe I have put myself out there as some kind of knowledgeable elder-I clearly am not. In fact, I’m thinking that maybe in a hundred years or so I might have learned enough to share some acquired “wisdom”. For you computer folks, I’ll throw in an “LOL”. (Yeah, Charlie True Jr. says he doesn't go to Pow-wow's, so his wife repeatedly invited me to go with her to these events YET he orchastrates the Miti-Jo Campground Pow-wow every early October!; He asks if "Abenaki children" need the Cards and Government, yet Charles True himself signed Inc. paperwork to interact with the Government of New Hampshire, etc!; Charles True Jr. claims he doesn't like computer's "that its not the Indian Way" he says, and yet he has an email address!)
Wlinanawalmezi and thanks for listening.

Charlie True Kcicasco@aol.com November 7, 2009  Posted by walillak at 6:10 PM

The ONLY reason ANYONE is afraid of showing and providing their genealogical connectedness to the Abenaki Ancestors clearly and convincingly, is simply because they don't have ANY genealogical connections to the Abenaki Ancestors! Anyone afraid of providing their genealogy (afraid of their own ancestors truthful documented histories) are simply "hiding in plain sight" their very likely self-created illusions, delusions, and distortions of being Abenaki, appropriating "an Abenaki identity" that does not rightfully belong to them at all!

IF in Charles True's absurd estimation that 95% percent of the Abenaki descendants have no paper documention to prove their connection to Abenaki Ancestry/ their alleged Abenaki "heritage"....then it simply points out there is a 95% percent chance that these persons and groups proclaiming to being Abenaki, without paper documentation to prove their alleged "heritage"....are very likely not Abenaki at all.

The remaining 5% percent who are Abenaki descendants, who do have paper documentation to prove their heritage, are simply NOT attempting to bullsh** or pull the wool over the the State Governor's or the State's Legislature's eyes. They seemingly are not a part of these "Alleged Abenaki Reinvented groups".
If there are legitimate Abenaki persons who have documented historical record(s) to the Abenaki ancestors, and are a part of these Reinvented Abenaki of VT/NH groups, it still does not "legitimize" these groups as being bonefide legitimate Abenaki Bands or Tribes. Of course, these "groups" will petition the New Hampshire Legislature and Governor who may naively allow a New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs to wave their magic wands, without the "genealogical requirement", and poof, MAKE Abenaki Bands and or Tribes within the State of Vermont and or New Hampshire. Already, Paul Wilson Pouliot was allowed to change Sherry Gould's Birth Certificate from saying "White" to saying she was born identified as "Native" by her parentage, which was not the truth when she was born.

Making Indians, Making Abenakis. Next thing you know these "groups" will be Making Casino's, and Making even more of their delusions and illusions. The legitimate historically documented Abenaki Ancestors be damned. All of this contemporary Reinventing of the alleged Abenaki is mirroring colonialistic attitudes towards legitmately documented Native People's (and in particular the Abenaki) by perpetuating FALSE IMAGES AND FALSE HISTORICAL HISTORY of the Native People/Abenaki, and hiding the truth!

Here nor there and so be it that Charles F. True Jr. can encourage everyone to put up their so-called "Wall of Silence"against my person, in an attempt to shut me up and shut me down, BUT my research and that of others will be continuing....and most revealing, I am certain of that.

It should be important to all Native descendants and to all Vermont Citizens (right along with every Citizen of New Hampshire) because, what these alleged reinvented Abenaki groups and their so-called Chief's, Speaker's, and Representatives are doing is re-writing and reinventing the legitimately documented Abenaki history...the history that ties every Vermonter and New Hampshire person together, Abenaki or not. We are better than that, or so I thought. It's a crying shame what is happening.

Certified Letter from Paul Wilson Pouliot of July 18, 2009:

1st document:  Both Lynn Menard-Mathieson of Griswold, CT and James LaFountain of Enfield, CT officially resigned from this group calling itself the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook - Abenaki People, Cowass North America, Inc. P.O. Box 52 Alton, N.H.

Well, if Paul Wilson Pouliot would not courteously meet with both Lynn and James, in a sovereign neutral place, then why would either of them attend this so-called "Grand and Elders Councils" and "Band Annual meeting" held in the home of Paul Wilson Pouliot on July 18, 2009? I am sure both Lynn Mathieson and James LaFountain both were and are fully aware that these Grand Council and Elder Council members were and are pro-Pouliot/Incorporate agents, treasurer's, etc. and that such a meeting would have been "stacked against either or the both of them".

NO, a independant and legitimate review of the COWASS North America, Inc. (CNA) financial documents, records and practises was not made to Lynn Menard-Mathiseon by Paul Pouliot or his wife Denise. What was provided by them, one or the other, was standard I.R.S. - filed records, that are a matter of public record. Not the checkbook, Banking financial records, not the identification of who made the donations and who, when, and where such donations were spent specifically, nor where the monies come into and leave the Incorporation were shown and provided. Why? This is what, as a Board of Director Lynn Menard-Mathieson was inquirying about at the time before her resignation from the Incorporation. What she got was a "smear campaign"! Well, IF there was and is no financial malfeasance, and it had or has no basis in truth, then why didn't Paul Wilson Pouliot and his wife Denise SHOW and PROVIDE Lynn Menard-Mathieson (since she was a Business Agent and Board of Director on this Cowass North America, Inc.) such documentations, bank financial records as she (Lynn) requested at the time? "We're not required to show that material by definition of law" is merely an excuse, to run out the back door when the questions are asked and answers are demanded. Thats to my thinking anyway.

Seems that "keeping the financial records" close-to-the-chest and right at home (a.k.a. what they called their "Tribal Headquarters") has a wide and deep moat! Yes, it is all about the financial fund-raising isn't it?

2nd document: Interesting that "A review and discussion about the Constitution was made. Our webmaster was requested to replace the website draft copy with the latest version. The subject of citizenship and leader positions and related requirements were also discussed. As a result of the loss of the Band records, there was a reasonable assumption that those that were representing the Grand and Elders Councils were all of Native American ancestry and that each and everyone would reapply and resubmit their appropriate ancestral documentation. A key consensus matter was made that all leaders must have Native American ancestry.

Does Paul Wilson Pouliot or Denis Beauregard have Native American Ancestry (documentation from and in this century, let alone in the 1800's?) I have not seen ANY Native American ancestry in their genealogies so far. Now, even IF they did have "Native American ancestry" either by genealogical paperwork of an ancestor or ancestors in the 1600's or 1700's, does that make them "Abenaki", "Cowasuck", or "Pennacook"? Thats my question. Does ANY of these people in and on these so-called "Grand and Elder's Council's" have definitive connections to the Abenaki from the Cowasuck ancestry, that they allegedly represent and speak for, or do they make this b.s. up as they go along? Thats another question that people need to ask and demand the answer(s) for. Not by what these people say, but what they can show and provide into the hands of someone else so that it can be independantly, without hesitation or protest, to be reviewed and evaluated.

Oh yes, Lynn is to be complemented for her genealogical work and of having done an excellent job in putting together the records, etc. But when it came to the reality of her informing not only Paul Wilson Pouliot that she was NOT finding any Abenaki or Cowasuck ancestral connections etc., let alone NOT finding ANY Native American ancestry from the Abenaki Traditional area for his ancestry, that made her a threat to him. Just like what happened to Jacquline Emerton a.k.a. Firewoman. That's my conclusions. Everyone else has to PROVE their genealogical connections to the Cowasuck and or Abenaki ancestry, EXCEPT the President (and his wife) of Cowass North America, Inc.

3rd document: It is most revealing and interesting that Paul Wilson Pouliot signed this 3 page letter document as Paul W. Pouliot, Sag8mo - Grand Council & President - COWASS North America, Inc. Isn't that like conflict-of-interest or something?

Rene Blanchette, Sag8mis - Grand and Elder's Councils. Isn't he also one of the signers of the Incorporation called COWASS North America, Inc. as well? I'll have to dig that documentation up too.

Signe Sevigny (Citizen) and another relative Ronald Sevigny signed the documentation.

So did Denise Pouliot (nee: Beauregard) who is Treasurer - COWASS North America, Inc.

INTERESTING INDEED.

"Motor-Mouth" Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. to Paul Wilson Pouliot of December 02, 1997:

1st document: Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. decided that on December 02, 1997 he would type up a "letter" to Paul Wilson Pouliot.
"Unfortunately for you, friends of mine in the Nipmuc, Wamanoag, Pequot, and Naragansett Nations contacted me recently to advise me about you running your, as they called it, "motor-mouth", telling them in so-called "private conversations", that my eight (8) yeard old boy was an "Illegitimate Bastard", among other remarks about this Council, me, and others, up here in Vermont."
"And all of this came about because a 9 year old friend of my son overheard her parents, and some Elders of that group, referring to my son's circumstances of birth by you, and she and her brother (8) called all he way from Connecticut to talk to my son about your remarks, and about his birth.This has caused his much severe pain and turmoil."

Indeed, Matthew R. Knight was born ca. 1989 or 1990 to Howard Franklin Knight's son Frank Warren Knight (Frank Warren Knight was born April 29, 1966 in Bexar County, Texas to Howard Jr and Minnie Florence nee: Davidson) and Terri Doba. For whatever reason(s) both Frank Warren Knight and Matthew's mother Terri Doba could not retain custody of their son Matthew. Subsequently, his grandparents Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. and Minnie Florence (Davidson) Knight legally adopted their grandson. When Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. and Minnie divorced, the custody of the said adopted "grandson" Matthew, was retained by Howard F. Knight, Jr. on June 17, 1997.
I find it commical that Howard F. Knight, Jr. wrote this letter to Paul Wilson Pouliot accusing Paul Pouliot of being an alleged "motor mouth". Kind of looks like Howard F. Knight, Jr. was a bit of a "motor-mouth" himself!

November 17, 2007 Meeting Minutes of the Alleged Cowasuck Band Pennacook/Abenaki People:

1st document: This document shows that Lynn Menard-Matheson was voted in for "War Chief". When has the these alleged Abenaki been at "war" with anyone, other than within it's own so-called "membership", or with those that helped created it (meaning Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. and the late Homer St. Francis, Sr.)?! The better description would have rather been her function would be to identifying "Incorporation property", and protecting the "Incorporation"; not alleged tribal property, and protecting the tribe.

2nd document: Lynn Menard-Mathieson, "Grandfather Maple", and Gail Demers were voted to be on a Genealogy Committee. Did Paul Wilson Pouliot or Denise, his wife, resubmit their genealogy, with primary sources, along with all other documentation? Everyone needed to comply by July 2008 to stay in the alleged "tribe".

"Tribal Headquarters" really means the "home-of-Paul Wilson Pouliot and Denise".

3rd document: An artisan co-op store would also be opened on their updated website. Lynn Menard-Mathieson created an online website to advertise sell their arts and crafts. This was taken as her "trying to create her own alleged tribe or group" according to Paul Wilson Pouliot, thus began the "smear campaign" against Lynn Menard-Mathieson.

Every time they have a so-called Tribal Meeting they also have a Board of Director's Meeting for Paul Wilson Pouliot's Inc. Cowass North America. WHY? They say that one and the other is seperate from each other. Charles and Rhonda Besaw-True say the same thing for Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire Inc.

On Abenaki Pride: Setting the Record Straight Blog on October 30, 2009 8:14 PM, (do they ever know how to stand up and be responsible and accountable for their words? "They" never show anyone WHO they really are.....kind of deceptive don't one think?!) "Anonymous said... "I damn well don't need or will ever seek out their permission or anyone else's to be Abenaki or to conduct myself upon this land as such."

MY REPY: Good, then since this person doesn't need or will ever seek out "their permission or anyone else's" to be allegedly Abenaki or to conduct themselves upon this land as such.....then why did these "alleged" Abenaki Groups in N.H., MA, and Vermont go running to their persepctive Commonwealth's Secretary of State Agencies to "incorporate" themselves as "non-profit businesses"? When these alleged Abenaki "Groups" did this, did they not loose all sovereignty altogether? Or am I mistaken? Or is it that these alleged self-proclaiming bunch of alleged Abenaki groups simply trying to b.s. the Commonwealth of Vermont (and these other nine or more States) into assuming that these various "groups" are really the legitimate Abenaki People?

This blog Reinvention of the Vermont Abenaki is not to even imply that ANY ONE need seek my permission or authorization to "be Abenaki". Heck, if people want to pretend they are Abenaki, when their genealogical records show and provide the evidence that they are not Abenaki, then implying that I am the one whose crazy, negative, hostile, or whatever..... is just about as absurd as one can conclude I think.
Finding a 1600's Mikmaq ancestor in someone's genealogical history, or even Huron from that same time period, etc. does not make that descendant a Mikmaq or even a Huron, let alone an Abenaki Indian person.
I could say, because my surname is Buchholz by birth, that I gain recognition from Germany. Do you think that Nation would grant me recognition? Not without certain condition having been met first, with genealogical documentation. I could say, because I was legally adopted by James Leckie, because my surname is Scottish, since he was born in Bellshill, Scotland....that I be recognised by Scotland as a Scotsman. Think I would get that recognition? My Woodward's came from Rushden, England since I am by my mother's father, a direct descendant of the English Woodward's. I even did a DNA tests on quite a few of my Woodward Woodard relatives to confirm/strengthen their genealogical records. Does this mean I can then be identified and recognized by England as a citizen of that Nation as well?
Just because someone happens to have an ancestor way back in their genealogical records, indicating they had a Mikmaq ancestor, a Huron ancestor, or even an Abenaki ancestor, does not make them into an Abenaki.
No one needs my permission to be anything, but I think it is absurd to watch these people become aware at 30, 40, 55, and even into their elderly years, discover their Native ancestral connections genealogical, then subsequently go to Pow-wow's and go about pretending they are of the Abenaki People, when in fact they are not. Facts may be they are Huron, they may be Mohawk, they may be Algonquin, or whatever, but most obviously they are not part of a historical, cohesive, continuous, genealogically conntected Abenaki Community! They created these "incorporations" and now they are trying to pick up historical maps, and so on, even to the point of saying they have done DNA testing to prove they are Abenaki (which by the way, is impossible).

IF it is true, that this unidentified person, what this person proclaims, then they ought not to have any issue with what is on this blog documentarily or in my commentary. They can keep running around in their "leathers and feathers" proclaiming that they are Abenaki every weekend as many Pow-wow's/School presentations/Museum's as they can attend "because of their 1600's Huron or MicMaq ancestral connection from their 8th, 9th, or 11th Great Grandmother", and they can help perpetuate the geneocide against the Native People's that happen to come from legitimate Abenaki Communities who have legitimate genealogical docoumentation, etc.
This blog is merely to show the absurdity of these incorporated groups led by the late Homer St. Francis, Sr, and numerous others, claims, conduct and words for what such has been. As yet, no one has proven with documentation that my position or my conclusions are incorrect. I find that interesting. I think the Commonwealth of Vermont, and these other States, as well as the PUBLIC in each someday will find that interesting as well. The Truth, whatever that is, will eventually show itself for what it is, whether we like it or not.

June 1994 Paul Wilson Pouliot Newsletter & Gambling Tidbits & Tom Dostou:

1st document: Alnobaodwa Abenaki National News January 1994 - Volume 94 Issue 1 - Page 1. On November 28, 1993 a Council and tribal business meeting for the alleged/ reinvented Coos-Cowasuck Band was held in Franklin, MA. This was an open meeting for all members. It also served as the annual business meeting for the tribal self-help company, Cowass North America Incorporated.

The other major issues which were brought forth were the cultural events for 1994, land, gambling, recognition, and inter-tribal relations. Several of these subjects will be handled by committees that will be formed in the coming months.

2nd document: Page 2 of this same newsletter. Dee Brightstar of the alleged Missisquoi Tribal Council was invited by the conference to welcome the participants and to provide Native American support to the conference's efforts to protect the temperate zone forests. "Dee" "Brightstar" is an undocumented and unproven person who merely claims to be "Abenaki". Is she REALLY Abenaki, or is she English, and simply appropriating an identity that does not belong to her or her ancestors? Is she another one (like Nancy Millette - Doucet), who will rush out to a DNA lab, and have her blood and bones tested by a DNA lab, so she too can claim that she is an alleged "Native American"?

3rd document: ABENAKI PLAN $13 MILLION COMPLEX BINGO HALL 2,000 *** "Casino Operations Would Require Federal Tribal Status" The Missisquoi Tribal Council is looking for a site in the Swanton area to build a bingo facility with a seating capacity of 2,000. An out-of-state investor is prepared to front $13 million for a new tribal headquarters and bingo hall. Designs for the building are already complete, but details were not available for public comment. Presently, the federal non-profit status that the alleged/reinvented tribe has will allow it to operate a bingo hall.

to expand the facility into a casino would require federal recognition of the alleged/reinvented tribe. A Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) spokesperson responded that a tribe operated casino would have to be on reservation or trust land of which the alleged/reinvented Abenaki do not have in Vermont.

Mike Delaney, alleged Missisquoi Tribal Judge reported that the alleged/reinvented Missisquoi are actively trying different ways to obtain federal recognition and that some progress is being made. "High-powered" law firms from Vermont, Massachusetts, and Arizona have been retained to assist in the efforts to obtain BIA Recognition. He stated that if federal recognition is granted, he wanted the tribe to be in agreement on how to proceed with a casino. He did not want the tribe to be divided on the issue such as the case with other tribal groups.

It was also noted that on December 10, 1993 Chief Homer St. Francis and Michael Delaney visited the Mashantucket-Pequot tribe's Foxwoods Casino and Resort in Connecticut. They reported that Foxwoods generates $1 million in gross revenue per day. The Chief stated that the gambling development would make the area richer and provide between 8,000 to 10,000 jobs.

Various local and government concerns were expressed about the potential infiltration of the organization of organized crime and that the primary interest may be to use the Abenaki to launder drug money. Shucks, the late alleged "Chief and or Grand Chief" of the alleged/reinvented "Missisquoi Abenaki" Homer St. Francis Sr. was already used to acting like the Whitey Bulger of Swanton, Vermont so he would have taken to organized like activities, like a duck to water, to my thinking!

***Abenakis Take State To Court*** "Seek recognition as indigenous" Fall River, Massachusetts - Dostou, identified as the United Nations liaison for the Abenaki Nation and Abenaki Council member stated that he represented a group that will be filing suit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for failing to recognize the Abenaki as indigenous to the state.

4th document: Same newsletter Page 4 continuation of Page 3, Dostou was reported to have allegedly addressed the United Nations in November on behalf of the alleged Abenakis to ask the UN to grant Native People a seat on the UN council. he was amazed that the UN listened to him as a alleged representative of the alleged Abenaki Nation but the state will not. He also stated that the Abenaki Council has hired an attorney to represent them against the state.

Tom Dostou said that a 3,000 year old sweat lodge is located in the southern Massachusetts town of Swansea. Abenaki language symbols carved into it verifies the existence of the Nation's settlements in this part of the state.

He said that his nation is hoping to receive federal money for programs which we are ineligible to get without recognition. He also stated that his nation has no plans for a casino if they gain recognition. - Summarized from the November 27, 1993 The Herald News, Fall River, MA, Richard S. Oliveira, reporter.

Please note: Tom Dostou is not a member of the alleged/reinvented Missisquoi nor Coos-Cowasuck Band councils, and it is not known what backing or authority he has from any Abenaki National group or the claims that were made in this report.

Well, let's see here....Concerning Tom Dostou.....Apparently on August 24, 1995, during a Sunbow 5 Foundation event, "called someone at the walk's office in New Hampshire, and she also called _______, the Treasurer of record the Sunbow 5 Foundation.  "told us she is still concerned about Tom Dostou' behavior. When he visited New York, in May, July, and then again in August, he was emotionally tempestuous and unwilling to answer questions. She said she's been watching the walk and she is concerned. John Heyman and I share her concern. Where is the money going? The board is legally responsible for reporting on that to the IRS. Tom Dostou has no explanation or accounting of it (donated monies), and becomes angry when asked. Other walkers tell us that they never see any of the Sunbow 5 Foundation money, and that they have little recollection of benefiting much from it. They just don’t know. In fact, they didn’t even know the Sunbow 5 Foundation was sending money to the walk each week, or that Tom had an ATM bank card linked to the Sunbow Foundation’s checking account and that he makes regular withdrawals. ______and I talked at length on the phone about all of this after hearing from . We have both had the experience of having Tom become belligerent with us on the phone when he is asked about the money, even in a general way. Because John and I, and Tom’s wife Naoko Haga, are the only other members of the Sunbow 5 Foundation Board of Directors, along with Tom himself, we have to give these matters our consideration. We have a moral and legal responsibility." http://www.8thfire.net/Day_63.html

Does this sound familiar to what happened between Lynn Menard-Mathieson and "Chief" Paul Wilson Pouliot?! Sure does to me!

According to the internet, Tom Dostou lived at Harwich, Massachusetts with his wife
Naoko Haga on Bank Street. Tom Dostou (a.k.a. "Nabesse Pishum"). He worked as a janitor.
Tom Dostou Abanaki (Innu Chief; Subchief of the Algonquin Nation) Fall River, Massachusetts and Port Angeles, Washington (only because he was associating with Ken Littlefish Durant) he was being taught to be a "Road Man" of the N.A.C.
From http://www.treeoflifeguardianship.org/member-background.htm
Tom Dostou has worked with the UN as well as national governments within Europe, Canada, Japan, and Africa. His efforts include initiation and development of a Native American alliance or United Nations of N. American tribes—while serving under the tutelage of William Commanda and Thomas Banyaca—as well as numerous awareness advocacy campaigns for the ‘healing and defense of Mother Earth’. He recently completed a peace walk in the N. Eastern US (summer, 2006) where he led many people in 'a prayer of remembrance' for sacred sites and lands; these sites were once revered as 'temples' by the ancestors of the tribes currently living there. Tom Dostou and Lauren coordinated their efforts, and joined forces with leaders among regional tribes in order to assemble this walk.
Tom Dostou has led many prayer walks over the past 10 years. He and several elders carried the atomic flame from Hiroshima to Chief Seattle's grave and from Suquamish, WA they traveled on foot to the UN building in NY City. From there it was reburied in Red rock, AZ, (by Hopi and Navajo medicine men) where it is believed to have originated.
Tom Dostou spent eight years with a community of Innu people in Quebec, Canada, where he followed the traditional nomadic life style of the tribe. Due to a vision he received in the forests of Quebec, he dedicated his life to the service of God, nature, and humanity, under his traditional elder, Chief William Commanda, and other spiritual leaders such as such as Thomas Banyanca and Martin Gashweseoma. He has worked as an advocate for indigenous people, seeking ways to defend the Earth, and working for the betterment of humanity, ever since.
Here are some of the "titles" I have seen just on the internet for this man:
Tom Dostou, War Chief Algonkian Nation
Tom Dostou, a citizen of the Wabanaki Alqonquin Nation in the Northeast region of Turtle Island
Tom Dostou, Makwa, Midewin Society
Chief Tom Dostou of the Algonquin Nation
Chief Tom Dostou, Waban-aki ( Eastern- Land) Aylnu, Bear Clan, Midewin Society
Tom Dostou Algonquin Elder
Tom Dostou is a man of mixed Wabanaki and Irish heritage. He had come to New York that November in a rage. He was seeking guns and money to support an incipient revolt against the Canadian government on a Mohawk reservation. But he was stopped in his tracks by the elders. http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7152
Tom Dostou, a Native American elder from the Wabanaki tribe
Tom Dostou, Bear Chief, Midewewin Society, Wabanaki Nation of Massachusetts, NAC (Native American Church/ Peyote Way)
Tom Dostou Wabanaki Tribe. Metis, Canadian.
Tom Dostou, a Massachusetts Abenaki
Tom Dostou (Chippewayan/Wabanaki/Irish)

Apparently, Tom Dostou had some previous "associations" with this particular Native Community of Innu People around 1992, as tonight I found this in French: "Barricade on Highway 138 in the area and Maliotenam Moisie "Mr. Perron. Mr. President, once again, the Quebec'ers will pick up a barricade and this is on the North Shore, east of Sept-Iles, all this due to carelessness governmental practice ever since seven years, the policy of double measures. Allow me, Mr. President, on behalf of my party, to denounce Mr. Tom Dostou who, on behalf of the Nitassinan made statements that were crude propaganda precisely to undermine not only the people of Quebec, but Quebec's economy. Mr. President, this is a group of mountains, about 30 people over the 2,000 and Montagnais, Uashat-Maliotenam, who erected a barricade at the intersection of 138 East Seven Islands around the tip of Moses. The Council Uashat-Maliotenam sent a letter denouncing this situation and asking the government to react promptly, also a letter from Mayor Moses said exactly the same thing. Mr. President there was two months less the same group that built this barricade barricaded himself (Tom Dostou) in an elementary school in the reserve. At the request of the head, it has been in contact with him. This is an internal problem of the community who finds a pretext in relation to negotiations that also took place with the Council Attikamekw and Montagnais."
This "Tom Dostou" retrospectively-speaking had associated with Kenneth "Littlefish" Durant, a kind and caring Chippewa/Anishnabe man who lives in my hometown of Port Angeles, Washington. Retropsectively-speaking when there was a Midewiwin ceremony going to take place in mid-July 2002, up along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada in a community called Sept-Iles near the Innu Native community of Maliotenam, Kenneth Littlefish Durant had suggested I ought to learn about William Commanda's "7 Fires Prophecy Belt" and that I ought to go to this Ojibway ceremony up in Maliotenam. So I made arrangements to attend this endeavor.Tom Dostou was driving up through Concord, New Hampshire and picked me up there in his van. It was an interesting ride northward to say the least, not knowing him, and him not knowing me. Yet we both knew Kenneth Littlefish Durant of Port Angeles/Joyce, Clallam County, Washington.
I went up to Sept-Iles not knowing what to expect, but to make a long story shorter, I found the Innu People and most of the people who attended this Midiwin Ceremony there, to very hospitable, nice, kind, and friendly.
Anyway, I went up there. I met some very kind persons, Anahee and Trueheart of Chatham, Ontario (?), (who also FALSELY claimed to be "Abenakis" ,,, neither of whom were or are) and a wonderful Innu moccasin maker named Christiane St. Onge, and kindly I recall Annishnabe Traditional Elder Robin Robert Sr. Greene of Iskatewizaagegan #39 Independent First Nation, Ontario Mauchibinance (Ma-Chi-Biness) Moose Dotem who was born May 16, 1932 and sadly passed away April 25, 2009. Regretably, because of Tom Dostou's negativity, aggressiveness, etc., towards my person and other persons, and because the transportation situation as it was seemed very likely in question in my returning back home, there were five (5) Abenaki descendants (which included myself) who picked up, removed ourselves from the Mediwiwin Ceremonies and left Sept-Iles, Quebec, Canada. I also met with Robin's son Robert and Robin's wife Kathleen Greene who were conducting the Mediwiwin Intercessor's; both were also very kind people.
From what I recall of that partiuclar trip and event almost from the beginning there was tension, hurtfulness, and there was confusion, in amongst all the good that was there. Then Tom Dostou's van wouldn't start once we got up to where the Ceremonies were going on into the 2nd day; so he cursed, he fumed, he yelled, he threw negative energry all over the place, looking at me and telling me to "fix it". I told him to pray on it and walked away.
Anahee, Trueheart, a guy by the name of "Wolf", and another man by the name of "Chief" Thomas Wounded Bear of Somerset, MA got up and began packed their things, and said their goodbye's, intending very much to leave the Mediwiwn Ceremony and that place altogether. I decided to get my stuff and leave with them, having been dropped off kindly (while they were enroute to Chatham, ON) at the Montreal Greyhound Bus Station to head back to Boston and then travel back up into New Hampshire.
Perhaps people will conclude this was rude to remove ourselves from that ceremony, yet for me it was the right thing to do. Whatever was to happen there just outside of Sept Ilse, Quebec, I knew I was not to be a part of it nor associate with it, whatever it was, any further.
I have researched how this so-called Seven (7) Fires Prophecy Belt held by William Commanda of Maniwaki, an Algonquin Native Community, has been transfered from one human-being to another. To my own awareness, that Wampum Belt is a Seven Fires Confederacy Belt; not a Seven Fires Prophecy Belt. But that's another story for another day.....in why I, myself, come to this conclusion.

So when I read this January 1994 Paul Wilson Pouliot Newsletter, with Tom Dostou's name in it, and according to Paul Wilson Pouliot stating that "Tom Dostou is not a member of the alleged/reinvented Missisquoi nor alleged/reinvented Coos-Cowasuck Band councils, and it is not known what backing or authority he has from any alleged/reinvented Abenaki National group or the claims that were made in this report." well let's just say.....it jogged my memory of the pne-time encounter I had with this  man Tom Dostou. He did seem to know of my relative Michael Edward Woodward (one of the relatives with a so-called Laurentian Alliance Metis and Non-Status Indians, Inc. Membership Card #2528, from up in Magog, Quebec and Timmons-Foluiet, Ontario who was desendant from Parker Preston Woodward and Sally Pilsbury). After hunting through all of these documents all over the place in this apt. this wee hour of the morning, I recalled the name of the fella (who sat in front passenger seat, in Tom Dostou's van in July 2002) as being "Chief" Thomas F. "Wounded Bear" Snizek Jr. of Somerset, MA and subsequently I "google'd his name. Thomas Snizek had a brother Henry "Rick" Snizek of Fall River, MA (they were sons of Thomas F. Snizek Sr. and Lillian Richotte - Snizek) who was named "Three Hawks". He was a member of the "Abenaki Nation of Vermont", and a member of the Wolf Tail Drum and the Dighton Inter-Tribal Indian Council.
So the names, the eventful trip in mid-July 2002, and the "associations" between persons, connect quite readily, if persistently.
Anyway, the main point I am trying to make in this post is that the late Homer St. Francis Sr. (right along with the late Michael Delaney as well) put the State of Vermont into having the distinct awareness, that IF these particular alleged/ reinvented Abenaki groups gained specific State or Federal Recognition, then Gambling was very likely in the future of Vermont's population. Whose fault was it? Well, its right in these group's newsletters what they intended! The State of Vermont wasn't blind nor stupid.