More Genealogical Information Regarding Almira, Flora Ingerson and Nancy Millette Doucet:

1st document: I think I posted this to the blog previously, but I think a reminder of what Nancy Millette (now Nancy Doucet of Bath, N.H. area has retrospectively stated to Rhonda L. Besaw - True and in the media needs to be put here so that people can see that she, herself put her Great Great Grandmother Almira Rines-Ingerson-Pollock and Almira's daughter Flora Eunice Ingerson-Hunt into a certain 'light' that most certainly looks to have been impossible, considering the physical documentary evidence shown recently on this blog. On July 27, 1999 at 11:26 AM Nancy Lee Cruger (her married name at the time) sent an email to her "cousin" Rhonda nee: Besaw claiming that, quote, "Great Grandmother Hunt (Flora) was born on the River bank in the "Littleton area". Now we both know that Littleton area could be anywhere and I believe the River bank was the Ammonoosuc. Flora's full name was Flora Una Anna Ingerson. Her motherwas Elmira Rine and it is believed that name RINE is a short version of Rinville of Odanak. Elmira was from the Indian Village in Jefferson. It is where the Archaeologists are digging now. They are close to the village of what is called the Contact Era. Elmira was a medicine woman who taught her daughter the medicines. Flora taught her eldest granddaughters, one being Aunt Lill who has been a great source of information on teh medicines but it makes her so sad she can't remember more that she cries when I ask questions so I try to limit my picking her brain sessions. Anyway, Henry Hunt, Flora's husband was also a mixed blood from what I have found. He is directly related to the RAMO family who is directly related to Homer St. Francis's family. This I got from an anthro."

So, NOW that people who have read my previous postings on here this week regarding Almira (Rines) Ingerson-Pollock, am I incorrect in my conclusions? IF so, then please SHOW and PROVIDE me the evidence documentarily of where my conclusions are incorrect. P.S. Nancy is not related to the "native descendant" Ramo dit Raymond family lineage either. Homer St. Francis had no Ramo dit Raymond ancestors or descendants that I have been able to find. Again, correct me with documentary evidence of where and how I am incorrect in my conclusions to ANYTHING I have stated or place here on this blog ANYONE.

2nd document: Mabel Emma (nee: Dyke) Hunt's Obituary from the Littleton, N.H. Courier newspaper. She died August 25, 1976 in Littleton, N.H. and had married to Reginald Ray Hunt on October 14, 1922 in North Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire. He was the son of Henry Otis Hunt and Flora Eunice INgerson. They had 8 children that I know of.

3rd document: Reginald Ray Hunt's Death Record Information from the Littleton, N.H. Town Report. of May 02, 1964. Below Reginald Ray Hunt's Death in the Town Report of 1964, is another Town Report of the year 1984 weherein on the date of January 28, 1984 Melvin "Slim" Ray Hunt, son of Reginald Ray Hunt and his wife Mabel Emma Dyke died at the age of 56 years.

4th document: Richard "Rick" Ray Hunt Birth record information from the 1955 Littleton, N.H. Town Report. Richard or Rick Hunt as he is called today, was born February 11, 1955 to Melvin "Slim" Ray Hunt and Dolores Marie Biledeau. She later remarried to Robert P. Cardinal of Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

5th document: John Millette Death Obituary from the Littleton, N.H. Courier newspaper. He was the son of John Thomas Millette and Catherine (nee: Dean).

His brother was Malcolm Dewey Millette who married to Beverly Clara Hunt, daughter of Reginald Ray Hunt and Mabel Emma (nee: Dyke). Malcolm Dewey Millette and Beverlyn Clara (nee: Hunt) are the parents of Nancy Lee Millette.

6th document: Nancy Lee Millette's Birth information from the Haverhill, N.H. Town Report of 1953. Nancy Lee Millette was born January 26, 1953 in Haverhill, N.H. to Malcolm Dewey Millette and Beverlyn Clara Hunt. These are all PUBLIC RECORDS, obtainable by anyone.

John Pollock's Obituary and Flora Eunice Ingerson's Obituary, etc.:

1st document: This first document is wherein one of the Ingerson settlers in Jefferson, Coos County, New Hampshire was ethnically identified as being an "Irishman".

2nd document: John Pollock Death Record of May 27, 1922 in Bethlehem, Grafton County, New Hampshire. (husband of Almira (nee: Rines) Ingerson-Pollock).

3rd document: John Pollock's Obituary of June 01, 1922 from the Littleton, N.H. Courier newspaper.

4th document: Flora Eunice Ingerson's Official Death Certificate. This was previously posted but I am entering it again here. Nancy Lee nee: Millette - Doucet's "cousin" Rhonda nee: Besaw - True retrospectively had email-sent this document to me in an attachment on June 25, 2008. I did NOT obtain ANY Vital Record Certificate through attempting to decieve or impersonate anyone.

5th document: Flora Eunice nee: Ingerson - Hunt's Obituary in the Littleton, N.H. Courier newspaper.

And More Regarding the Smith and Ingerson Folks of N.H.:

1st and 2nd docuemnts: William Sherwood and widow Susannah "Susan" (nee: Smith) Rines marriage record of March 06, 1869 in Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire.

3rd document: Susannah "Susan" (nee: Smith) Rines - Sherwood Death Record of November 11, 1895 in Monroe, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

4th document: Flora Eunice (nee: Ingerson) and Henry Otis Hunt's marriage record on October 24, 1896 in Monroe, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Both of them are the age of 22 years. The Groom, Henry Otis Hunt, knows who both his parents are. Yet, the Bride, Flora Eunice Ingerson ONLY puts her father George Ingerson of Eaton, N.H. down on the marriage record. Did she NOT know who her mother's name was? Clearly and obviously by placing the geographical location of Eaton, N.H. for her mother, indicates that Flora Eunice Ingerson DID NOT KNOW anything about her mother at all. She did not know that Almira Rines - Ingerson - Pollock had remarried to John Pollock in 1879 nor did she know that Almira was born in August 1850 in Littleton, N.H. either. Did Flora Eunice Ingerson be born on some alleged "riverbank" or in some alleged "Abenaki Village in Jefferson, N.H."? Did Flora KNOW anything, let alone pick up and remember some alleged "Teachings of the Abenaki" from her mother Almira as Nancy Millette/Doucet has stated retrosepctively in the media repeatedly? Or was Almira and Flora's descendant Nancy Lee Millette - Doucet merely reinventing these two women, mother and daughter, and through that very likely manipulation herself, into being Abenaki, when the reality and truth of the genealogical records prove otherwise, that the statements made by Nancy Millette (now Doucet) were simply blantant fabrications created in Nancy's own mind and then perpetuated into the Public awareness? I think so, sadly said, based on the genealogical records, etc. Remember, Nancy was a Town Promoter of Littleton N.H. She not only had to promote the Town of Littleton to the public, but also herself, her persona, in which to solicite......(based on distortions and illusions?) 5th document: George William Ingerson's Death Record of February 23, 1906 in Haverhill, N.H.

6th document: The Littleton, N.H. Courier Newspaper article wherein Mrs. Henry Otis Hunt (Flora Eunice Ingerson-Hunt) of Monroe, N.H. travels to Swiftwater, N.H. on Sunday because of the death of her father George Ingerson. Then in the Benton, N.H. column, George Ingerson, a former resident of this town, died at the home of his son Charles Ingerson, in Haverhill, early Thursday morning Feb. 22.

These genealogical FACTS from the documents themselves, in comparison to Nancy's own publicly made statements in the media, began to cause me to question what has been going in the Northeast up here in Vermont and New Hampshire, MA, with these "groups" led by these "representatives" such as Nancy herself, April St. Francis-Merrill, Paul Wilson Pouliot, Howard Franklin Knight Jr., etc. and I've come to realize that PERHAPS what they all have been putting out there towards and in the PUBLIC, as to the merits of their arguements, statements, and positions, may NOT be factually real or honest. Through this blog, and the documents NOT MY COMMENTARY, I am hoping I can figure out whether or not if these "groups", these people, claiming to being Abenaki are really who they say they are. Because for quite a few years, I have begun to DOUBT their merits, their arguments, their purported histories. This doubt began to seep into my mind and bones with hearing from Rhonda Besaw, and from reading that BIA Conclusionary Report of November 2005 etc. So, it is that I have created this blog. There are reasons for it. It's a work-in-progress and there is MUCH MUCH MORE to put on here.

Almira (Rines) Ingerson - Pollock's Death Record of Feb. 05, 1880:

This is the actual image from the Littleton Town Records for Almira (nee: Rines) Ingerson - Pollock's Death. This obviously shows that this is Flora Eunice Ingerson - Hunt's mother having remarried to John Pollock BEFORE she died February 05, 1880 in Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Some folks will say to SOURCE my Family Tree Maker information. I have the SOURCE DOCUMENTS to substantiate what is in my FTM database and as time allows I will be putting the genealogical records on this blog, etc.

So, I am wondering whether or not Almira (Rines) Ingerson (who abandoned/left/divorced her 1st husband, leaving the care of this very young daughter Flora Eunice Ingerson to the girl's father George W. Ingerson, just how many Abenaki cultural lessons, medicines and the like Almira allegedly was able to pass on to Flora Eunice Ingerson. Did she or didn't she? Was she even able to pass on much of anything at all that Flora Eunice Ingerson would have remembered into her adulthood? Anyone with any sense of raising a 3-4-5 year old child, knows that to keep the attention span of that child for very long is nearly impossible. I am not sure when Almira Ingerson abandoned her 1st marriage and children (more genealogical research will have to be done) but from what I have researched thus far, Flora Eunice Ingerson didn't know her mother for very long sadly said.

More Information on Almira Rines-Ingerson-Pollock, etc:

1st Document: Almira (nee: Rines) Ingerson (after having left her first husband George W. Ingerson and her children of that marriage) remarried to John Pollock on June 17, 1879 in Bethlehem, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Almira's daughter Flora Eunice Ingerson (who later married to Henry Otis Hunt) would have been 05 years, 02 months, 23 days of age (IF as stated on Flora Eunice Ingeron-Hunt's Death Certificate, she was indeed born on March 25th, 1874) (yet I have a date of September 09, 1874 for Flora Eunice Ingerson-Hunt's birth on another document) at the time of her mother's second marriage. Flora Eunice Ingerson would have just about been 5 years old if using either date of birth. How many alleged "Abenaki teachings" and/or motherly lesson's do you folks think Almira Rines-Ingerson would have taught her daughter Flora, and for Flora to have retained those "teachings", etc.? THINK ABOUT IT.
2nd document: If the 1st document didn't confuse you folks, then this probably might confuse you....when comparing the media published articles in which Nancy Millette/aka Nancy Cruger/aka Nancy Lyons/aka Nancy Doucet had stated "her Great-Grandmother Flora Una Ana Ingerson-Hunt was taught by her mother Almira, who were both born in, and from the Abenaki Village in Jefferson where they are digging right now" bla-bla-bla-blah, then this document ought to solidify a bit more on the matter. Almira Rines-Ingerson-Pollock DIES on February 05, 1880 in Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire! Notice on the Death Certificate, that both of her parents were not from no alleged Abenaki Village situated in Jefferson, N.H. either. Her father was from Lisbon, N.H. and her mother was from Lyman, N.H. according to this certified document. Also in approximately April of 1879, John Pollock and Almira (nee: Rines) Ingerson-Pollock had a daughter Annie Pollock in Littleton or Bethlehem, N.H. who died August 30, 1881 in Littleton, N.H. at the age of 02 years and 04 months of Scarlatina. No mother is listed on the young girl's Death Record at the Littleton Town Clerk's Office, except that said mother was born in the U.S. Father being John Pollock born in Canada. John Pollock could possibly have had a daughter by-another-woman whom he didn't marry, but it is highly unlikely. On the marriage record to Almira, he states that it was his 1st marriage, and Almira indicated it was her first marriage as well, but obviously, looking at the historical records this was not the reality or the truth of the matter.
3rst Document: George William Ingerson (after his first wife Almira Rines-Ingerson left him with their 6 children in Bethlehem or Jefferson, N.H. and had died in February 1880) he remarried to Sarah Maria Howe on November 18, 1880 in Haverhill, New Hampshire. George W. Ingerson's mother was Eunice Wilbur (nee: Presby) Ingerson and his father was Jesse Ingerson. George's father Jesse had married to Eunice in Lyman, N.H. on February 04, 1841. Jesse's first wife was Elvira Mehitable Wilson whom he married in 1809. From this first marriage Jesse had a son William Henry Ingerson in April 1819 in Jefferson, whom married to Elmira Bergin on June 20, 1839 in Jefferson, N.H., she being the daughter of Isac Bergin and Betsey Stone. Thus, George William Ingerson and William Henry Ingerson were half brothers. Both of their spouses were named Almira or Elmira Ingerson after marriage. They lived near or beside one another's farms (as did the Applebee relatives) and Emira Bergin-Ingerson's brother Ira Bergin did land transactions with George W. Ingerson. Elmira (Bergin) Ingerson died December 05, 1885 in Jefferson, N.H. Nancy Millette-Doucet obviously was confused as to the Death Certificate being her Great-Great-Grandmother that was sent to her by the State of N.H. Vital Records Department down in Concord, and by the way she had email attached that particular death certificate to me in September 2005. A simple trip to the Lancaster Library and onto the micro-film reader to obtain the obituary for Elmira (Bergin) Ingerson clarified which of these two "Elmira/Almira" Ingerson's had died in December 1885.

A genealogical romp into the Rines-Ingerson folks from Littleton, N.H. and Jefferson, N.H.:

1st document: Ebenezer Rines married to Susanah "Susan" Smith on September 25, 1845 in Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. He was the son of Henry Rines born September 10, 1772 in Lebanon, York County, Maine and who married to Alice "Ellis" Miller born in Alton Bay, Belknap County, Maine. Henry Rines died September 10, 1851 in Jefferson, Coos County, New Hampshire. Alice (Miller) Rines died August 01, 1858 in Jefferson as well. No they did not die in a Teepee nor in an Abenaki Village....
Ebenezer Rines died September 04 1863 at Point Lookout, Maryland and his wife died November 11, 1895 in Monroe, New Hampshire after having remarried to William Sherwood on March 01, 1869 in Dalton, Coos County, New Hampshire. It was William Sherwood's first (unknown) spouse that he had Emile Sherwood who married to William Stephen Rines March 13, 1866 in Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire. William Stephen Rines was born April 24, 1846 in Littleton, New Hampshire to Ebenezer Rines and Susannah Smith. His second wife was Emeline Merrill whom he married in December 1873, and later he married a third time to Emma Elliott on March 03, 1888. This 3rd wife Emma Elliott was a sister to William H. Elliott, who first married to Flora Ella Woodward, daughter of my fourth great grandparents brother and sister.
2nd document: Almira Rines was born in Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire on August 21 or 29, 1850 (NOT in some alleged Abenaki Village in Jefferson, N.H. as Nancy Millette-Cruger-Lyons-Doucet would have folks assume/believe/think). This Birth Record is from Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire right where Nancy Millette-Cruger was employed at the Littleton Coin Factory, The Littleton Pizza House, and as the Littleton, N.H. "Town Promoter" for a number of years. Why she could not have discovered these genealogical records of her own Great-Great Grandmother Almira Rines-Ingerson is quite puzzling......then again, perhaps she had a story to tell, and if these records came to light, well that would have spoiled her endeavor with these folks from Swanton, Vermont led by Homer St. Francis Sr. and his supporters. She had a Show to put on, leathers & feathers, and all that, for the Littleton, N.H. Politicians, and the general public.
3rd document: This is from the William Presby of London, England & Taunton, MA & his descendants 1690-1918 by Joseph Waite Presby. Rutland, Vermont. Tuttle Company 1918. Obviously, Nancy Doucet never found this book, and realize that Flora Una Ana Ingerson - Hunt was actually Flora Eunice Ingerson - Hunt. Then again, since 1918 this information has been published in a book. Regardless, Nancy Doucet (formerly Cruger and Lyons) merely wanted to go about "In-di-an-izing" her Great-Grandmother Flora's middle name, etc. Kind'a like what I did with that whole Salmon Raven Deer business years ago.
4th & 5th document: This is the 1880 Federal Census done on the 14th day of June, 1880 in Stewartstown, Coos County, New Hampshire. From this documented Census, seeing that the children of George W. Ingerson and Almira Rines were on Inmates at the County Farm, and not in Jefferson, N.H. with their father, and their mother not-to-be-found....I genealogically thought that perhaps their mother Almira Rines - Ingerson had died before June of 1880. Later research by Faith Kent of Lancaster, N.H. and also my own research found that Almira had not only died by June 1880, but that she had remarried as well, leaving George William Ingerson with their six (6) children. At approximately six (6) years of age, Flora Eunice Ingerson was at the Coos County Poor Farm up in Stewartstown, N.H. with her siblings.

Some Genealogical "Homemade" Charted Connections:

I thought perhaps its time to throw in a few home-made genealogical chartings I did some years ago. Chart #1 (the top one) is the Joseph Lamadeleine dit LaDouceur and Marie Catherine Girardin dit Sansoucy two lines of descendants. I was researching the lineage on the right for a friend who hired me to find her genealogical ancestry. Genealogically speaking, research (at least for me anyway, goes both ancestrally and down all descendancy lineages). Obviously, I genealogically connected both my friends ancestors to Nancy Lee (nee: Millette) Doucet's ancestors.

Chart #2. is the two Nichols Descendant lineages. One can see that Nancy Millette-Doucet (Doucet is her married name nowadays since she married to Mark Doucet in Haverhill, N.H.) is related to the same Nichols ancestors that I am descendant from.

Chart #3. is Nancy Doucet's ancestral connections to my own Sawyer and Russell lineage ancestors. But this chart will need some explaining. David Taylor (sister to Bestey Taylor who was my ancestor) married to Sarah Saywer (whose brother Benjamin Sawyer...whose my ancestor....married to Betsey Taylor. In simple terms, two siblings of the Sawyer family married to two siblings of the Taylor family. It was Sarah (Sawyer) and David Taylor who had a daughter Cynthia Taylor who married Hiram Hunt. It was Hiram's brother Frederick P. Hunt who married to Mary Jane Shawney (who was Richard "Rick" Hunt and Rick's 1st cousin Nancy Millette-Doucet's ancestor). Rhonda Besaw/True is only related to Nancy (nee: Millette) and Richard "Rick" Hunt via the two Nash sisters Chloe and Minnie.

Chart #4. This chart also can be a bit confusing but alittle explaining will hopefully go along way. Again these are simple WORD Document created charts that I made some time ago. Apollos Woodward and Rachel Reynolds, George Robinson and his second wife Sarah Taylor, Maria Charlotte Robinson-Rollins are my direct ancestors. Maria C. Robinson's sister Mary Robinson married to David Brown, son of John Brown and Susan Brock. Apollos Woodward and his first wife Rachel Reynolds had Parker Preston Woodward who married to Sarah Pilsbury Sawyer (his brother Royal and her sister Mary married each other = two siblings of the Woodward's married two siblings of the Sawyer's). Anyway, Parker and his first wife Sarah Sawyer had a daughter Nancy Jane Woodward who married Alonzo John Woodward (my 3rd great grandfather). After she died he married to Mary Charlotte Robinson who was the widow of Asa Rollins. Parker and Sarah also had another daughter Flora Ella/Ellah Woodward who first married to William Henry Elliott, son of Warren Elliott and Rebecca Hunter. They broke up shortly after their marriage. Later, William H. Elliott remarried to Amelia Maria Brown, daughter of David Brown and Mary Robinson. Flora later remarried to Hayden/Harley Cass. William Henry Elliott's sister Emma Elliott married to William Rines after Emeline Sherwood died. William Rines was brother to Almira Rines that married first to George William Ingerson and later she remarried to John Pollock. Almira Rines and Geo. Ingerson were Flora Eunice Ingerson's parents. Flora Eunice (NOT Una Anna) Ingerson-Hunt was Nancy Lee Millette (now Doucet)'s Great Grandmother. I made an error on this particular chart, in that Susan Rines who married to William Sherwood, is actually the mother to Almira Rines-Ingerson. After Ebenezer/Eben Rines died she later remarried to William Sherwood. Flora Eunice Ingerson married to Henry Otis Hunt and they had Reginald Hunt who married to Mabel Dyke. It was Reginald and Mabel who then had Melvin who had Richard "Rick" Hunt, and their daughter Beverly who had Nancy Lee Millette. Therefore, Rick Hunt and Nancy are 1st cousins. You will see why I have been showing these charts and the genealogical connectedness as this blog goes along, but while studying my own ancestral lineage's I kept repeatedly running into Nancy Millette Cruger Lyons Doucet's ancestors. In particular, what she was saying in the media, did not, and had not been found to be factual, based on the documentation I have genealogically researched. Was Almira Rines - Ingerson and her daughter Flora Eunice (a.k.a. Flora "Una Ana") Ingerson - Hunt REALLY from some undocumented "Abenaki Village 8,000 to 10,000 years old which was situated in Jefferson, New Hampshire? Or was Almira or her daughter Flora born on "some riverbank"?

On Tuesday Aug 12, 2008 3:25 am #37304 of 43741 "Nancy Millette" foxsong06 via Olidahozi moderated and censored by Jeanne Lincoln - Kent herself and her Yahoo Group member Nancy Lee Millette/Cruger/Lyons/Doucet posted the following message that was forwarded to me (since I am no longer a member of Jeanne's Olidahozi Yahoo Group.....quote.....
"Kwai Allas many of you already know Douglas Lloyd Buchholz (aka Salmon, Mark Douglas Leckie, Salmon Raven Deer) has been stocking me and harrassing me for over two years now. He has recently posted on ancestor.com no, that was Genforum.com's Message Board's and Ancestry.com's Message Board's and other genealogy forums a bogus letter stating he is related to me and is looking for information on my family to identify my abenaki roots I was seeking other people who could substantiate what Nancy Millette was putting out in the media. He has made his letter sound as though I have enlisted his services to help find the information. He is NOT related to me unless he has found some way to make it look that way via his bogus 18 page genealogy chart he has posted. In his posting he has posted personal information all of it PUBLIC INFORMATION about myself and other living relatives which endangers us all and puts us at risk of identity theft B.S. I am enlisting the services of an attorney and will be pursueing charges against him. I would appreciate it if any one should find more of his postings that is abuse toward myself or family members if you would please forward the posts to me. Thank you. Nancy Millette

Well, let the genealogical records speak for themselves in the next posting.

Sherbrooke Pow-wow 2002 Photographs:

Photo 1: (top one) is of Richard "Rick" O'bomsawin, current representative of Odanak, Quebec, Canada's Abenaki community. He's in the bearskin regalia and the white face paint. "Grandfather" Rene Blanchette of Methuen, MA is walking in the background behind Rick's right side. Rene is or was an Assistant Clerk/Genealogical Researcher for Paul Pouliot's group and was or is a member of the Board of Directors as of April 08, 2008. Paul Wilson Pouliot is the "President"~Chairman of the Board of Directors. I guess that makes him a "Chief" of whatever their Incorporation is called (i.e. Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People Cowass North America, Inc. d.b.a. (doing business as) The Abenaki Nation of Vermont, Inc. P.O. Box 52 Alton, N.H.).

Photo 2: Well, that's Rhonda L. Besaw (now married to Charles Francis True Jr. (who claims to be the "Speaker"....of and for the Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire, Inc., which I have spoken of previously in this blog i.e. Homer St. Francis and Allen Martell, etc.) and to her left side is Rick O'bamsawin of Odanak, Qc., and an unidentified woman, and over to the far right (in the picture) is Paul Wilson Pouliot.

Photo 3: (on the far left in the picture) is Grey Wolf a.k.a. John Lawyer of St. Albans, Vermont (used to be part of Homer St. Francis's group but then jumped Bands, and went with the Mazipskwik group led by Connie Brow (homer St. Francis' niece) and David Gilman. (You can read some details here on this blog about this group using the search engine in the upper left corner, or you can read about this group in Frederick M. Wiseman's Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation on page 180-181). Next in this photograph (in the bacground) is Rene Blanchette a.k.a. Grandfather Maple, (with the deer antlered staff) is Paul Wilson Pouliot, Jamie Mehigan a.k.a. James D. Mehigan who at the time was of Woodville, MA (who was Secretary of Paul W. Pouliot's Inc. in 2005), and (with another one of them deer antler'd staff's is Walter Watso (who was from Odanak as well).

Photo 4: (left to right) is Paul Wilson Pouliot, (to Paul's left) is David Mathieson of Griswold, CT (whose wife is Lynn Menard-Mathieson and she was Paul W. Pouliot's group Business Agent-Connecticut and Member of the Board of Directors as of April 08, 2008).

Photo 5: These two woman are (left) Karen Benoit-Belanger and (right) Anissa Belanger (members of Paul Pouliot's group).

Photo 6: James "Jamie" D. Mehigan.

Photo 7: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada "Dignitaries meeting with "Chief's" and "Elder's" at the Sherbrooke, Pow-wow. From left to right, is Rene Blanchette, unknown, holding the deer antlered staff is Paul W. Pouliot, with the red blanket, and then there is Walter Watso who was from Odanak, Quebec, Canada. My question is after seeing these images, is..."whats up with the deer antler'd staffs/walking sticks? Maybe they were used to hold up these "chief's" EGO's while they attended this event. Or maybe it was so everyone else could point them out, so these "chief's could feel important". I just don't know, but I do ponder......The photographs above #1 through #7 are from Norm Léveillée (link: http://www.cowasuck.org/sherbrooke/gallery.htm#gallery

Photo 8: Thats me on the left (in the picture), an unidentified man, and the woman whose last name is Bessette. She was from Magog, Quebec, Canada and was Abenaki. The Magog ancestral village is underneath the McDonald's Resturant, and the outlet of that river. I attended this event/Pow-w0w in June of 2002 by traveling up there with Patricia Lilly of Ossippee, New Hampshire at the time. I recall that Jeanne Lincoln-Kent was up there with her new husband in their van. Oh how she tried to talk to me about all that "Firewoman vs. Paul Pouliot "business", attempting to pull me into that mess. Muck-racking even back then by all sorts of people. But I was there just the same, and I witnessed a lot of the "crap" that was being done by folks to other folks. The ground was flat and hard on the feet, the seagulls were numerous and diving bombing for Poutine, a dish of french fried potato strips topped with gravy and cheese.