Nathan Elwin Pero and his late father Elwin Merle "Joe" Pero etc, and the attempt to create a 5th Vermont "Abenaki" "Koasek" "Tribe" in 2014-2015

Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:54 PM
From: BunnellLoyalist@aol.com
To: douglaslloydbuchholz@yahoo.com
CC: franbluewolfspirit@gmail.com [Francine Poitras - Jones]

BCC: houseofmica@yahoo.com [Karen nee: Bourdreau aka. Karen Mica]

From: Paul Joseph Bunnell

"Keep in mind that we never did and do not have any desire to get into any of this Vermont Indian crap. We thought recognition would be nice and Nathan thought it would be good for his family. We offered our genealogies to this process, but they fought that suggestion, just relationships. I knew why they took this position because you and I know all the holes many of them have in their genealogies, and though there are Abenaki Metis living in Vermont, there is no Vermont Abenaki ancient ancestors that have been recorded there yet. All the Abenaki I have found, including my several eventually all come from Quebec, Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia."

So, let's take a look at Nathan Elwin Pero and his late father Elwin Merle "Joe" Pero's Native Ancestral Connection:

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine (nee: Charon) Chagnon dit Larose

4. François Louis Chagnon

5. Christophe Chagnon

5. Jean Chagnon dit Larose

6. John Baptiste Chagnon dit Shonyo

7. Clarrisa Cook (nee: Shonyo) Pero

8. Henry Cook Pero

9. Elwin Merle “Joe” Pero

10. Nathan Elwin Pero

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON [great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother]

3. Pierre Charron [great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather]

4. Charles Charron Sr. [great-great-great-great-great-grandfather]

5. Charles Charron Jr. [great-great-great-great-grandfather]

6. Marie Françoise (nee: Charron) Chagnon dit Larose [great - great-great-grandmother]

7. John Baptiste Chagnon dit Shonyo [great-great-grandfather]

8. Clarrisa Cook (nee: Shonyo) Pero [great-grandfather]

9. Henry Cook Pero [grandfather]

10. Elwin Merle “Joe” Pero [father]

11. Nathan Elwin Pero

Now, obviously I KNOW how Nathan Elwin Pero descends from this Huron woman. How many generations down? 10 and 11 generations.

So a 7th great-grandmother, makes the 7th great grandson a Huron Indian or a Metis person? Or a Koasek Abenaki, from and of Vermont?

Ok, so WHAT COMMUNITY does that lineage come from and has retained up to and after 1974 within Vermont? Claiming as Nate does that his father, and his father, and his father, and his father were Chiefs.... of a Cowasuck Tribe or Band within Vermont?

Of what discernible COMMUNITY of native peoples? How did those alleged "Chief's" conduct their "chief-ly" status and position?

You see, without a discernible/externally observable community foundation that FUNCTIONS through time, I conclude that Nathan Pero is merely a DESCENDANT and not Huron nor Abenaki/Cowasuck.

Why? Because his ancestors CHOSE to live in an ENGLISH COMMUNITY, and or his ancestors CHOSE to live in a FRENCH COMMUNITY and identified as ENGLISH and or FRENCH from two generations down from Catherine Pillard to Nathan's grandfather, up to 1974, that's why.

It is absurdity to imply that Nathan Pero or his father were Chiefs of a Cowasuck Tribe of and from Vermont or New Hampshire prior to 1980.

And to use the term Metis, as if it were a catch-all everyone's-an-NDN simply because of a 1-drop-rule ideation, or construct, is again absolutely distorting the history of the Metis' and appropriation of their culture and histories as Metis Communities.

While I know you don't adhere to or think as what I have described here Paul respectfully said, it is the truth. Your group is no more Abenakis, than any of the others that already have recognition within the State of Vermont right now.

This group (through a trickle-down dynamic) has incorporated under Vermont State Law, through the Secretary of State's Office, through the machinations of Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. etc. since the early 1980's, beginning with "Richard Blackhorse" Phillips and several others like Emerson Bidwell Garfield, and Wayne Hoague.

I have retrospectively mentioned within this blog these machinations and scheming tactics to "create" out of thin-air "Abenaki" "Tribes".....

Accordingly:

Chief Paul J. Bunnell, UE, Author, Professional Genealogist

Gwilawato (He looks For Something)

Chief, Koasek Abenaki Nation & Tribal Genealogist

http://bunnellgenealogybooks.citymaker.com

Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

For Koasek Business contact: Koasek@yahoo.com

Here's the "Chief" of the 5th groups seeking Vermont State Recognition, claiming to be KOASEK, COWASUCK, KOASUK etc ...

An Abenaki Tribe from and of Vermont.... through the Vermont Commission of Native American Affairs (VCNAA)? ...

Here's what "Chief" Paul Bunnell stated:

"I agree that many native lines exist in most NH & VT members. I have always said that there are no pure Vermont or New Hampshire Abenakis. In fact, every Native American in New England and the Maritime's are really Metis. Many if not most Vermont Natives have Huron blood. It's just the way the migrations went from Montreal/Quebec."

"The Abenaki blood that does run in our veins, comes from outside Vermont beyond c. 1700's."

"The native Vermont and New Hampshire communities [the now VT State Recognized "Tribes" ... the "Missisquoi-Sokoki" of Franklin County, the Nulhegan-Coos Band of Orleans County, VT, the El-Nu of Jamaica, VT, and the "Koasek of the Koas" of the Newbury, VT area] .... have old roots, which is fine to claim the areas they are from, but they are ALL METIS. I feel the native culture is good to revive and claim ... as long as it lays in the area of our Algonquin common heritage. "

So, in conclusion the 5th group, of which was retrospectively a part and parcel of the late Nancy Lee (nee: Millette) Cruger-Lyons-Doucet and Brian Chenevert and of course, Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. concoction in mid-2006 recreation, having a tangled web of incorporate connections all the way back to 1980... are merely METIS?

Again, mis-appropriaton of the Metis history and culture, to allow themselves to also appropriate the Abenaki identity and status..... to my thinking. 

Over 180 years of Tribal Chiefs.

1. Nolka (Deer) Clan – Chief John (Jean) Shinnio 1832 to 1865

2. Cowasuck of the Coos – Chief Clarissa Shinnio 1865 to 1915

3. Cowasuck of the Coos- Chief George Harry Pero 1915 to 1947

4. Cowasuck of the Coos- Chief Elwin (Joe) Pero Chief 1947 to 1981

5. Nolka Clan Chief Nathan Pero 1981 to 2010

6. Chief Howard Knight Jr. 1981 to 2006 Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation (and under previous names) Retired

7. Chief Brian Chenevert 2006 to 2010 Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

8. Co-Chief Nancy Millette Lyons 2006 to 2007 Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

9 Sub-Chief Leo Descoteaux .2007 to 2009 (passed over) Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

10. Sub-Chief Paul Bunnell 2009 to 2010 Koasek (Cowasuck Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

11 Chief Nathan Pero of Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation 2010 to Present

12. Co-Chief Paul Bunnell Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation 2010 to Present.

Really? Let's see the EVIDENCE clear and convincingly, from either this group calling itself the "Koasek Traditional Band Of The Sovereign Abenaki Nation" .... or from the State of Vermont itself ... instead of IMPLYING kinship and relation and or contemporary members of this group, who do have Abenaki ancestry, having joined the group in contemporary time, like the Boles family members.

And btw, if as I suspect, the late Nancy Lee (nee: Millette) Cruger-Lyons-Doucet does have an ancestor Christopher Shawney b. abt. the late 1700's who married Orinda/ Olinda Marden or Marsten ... she and her cousins would have a distant HURON Ancestor; NOT ABENAKI. NOT SHAWNEE either.

Could Shawney be a distortion of Shonyo or Shinnio? 

Shonyo was a dit name for Chagnon. 

So perhaps when the late Nancy Lee (nee: Millette) came back to Vermont from a NY Mohawk Community, and subsequently created her "Tribe" and then, in an attempt to be Chief-For-Life like the late Homer Walter St. Francis Sr. turned himself into, years before up in Swanton, VT ... and didn't get her way and managed to 'create' the now-State-Recognized group calling itself the
Koasek of the Koas" Abenaki "Tribe" ... and got National Genographic to do her alleged DNA testing ... 

Could she also be a descendant of a HURON woman, Catherine 8enta Plat (Pillard) who married Nicholas Pierre Charron dit Ducharme in 1665? I bet the odds are she was!

But what difference would it have made, really, if she was a descendant?

Nathan Elwin Pero is a 7th Great Grandson of this Huron woman, Catherine 8enta Plat (Pillard).

Ever heard of "RECOMBINATION" in DNA Genetic Genealogical Research?

Each generation gets generally a variable of near or a little more than 50% from each parent, and generally some from each parents Grandparent etc. etc.

This means that by the time, that 'recombination' dynamic hits dear old Nathan Elwin Pero, the percentile of HURON ancestral DNA is pretty much nearly 'gone' and undetectable by today's DNA technological testing processes (autosomal DNA).

Then again, these group's advocate the appropriation and acceptance of their claims and assertions, that they are Vermont's ABENAKIS and or COWASUCK/KOASEK ABENAKIS, with historical merit, continuance, and coherency.

Nathan Elwin Pero nor his father, were not part of a HURON COMMUNITY, so even if they have a HURON Ancestor 7 generations back in their genealogy, it does not make them HURON INDIANS.

It does in fact, show that they have Huron Ancestors.

NOT ABENAKIS, NOT ABENAKI ANCESTRY. 

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. François Charron dit Ducharme

4. Marie Charlotte Charon dit Ducharme

5. Jean Baptiste Frechet

6. Marie Louise Branconnier

7. Sara LaDurantaye

8. Wilfred David (or Foster) Robert

9. Lillian Dorothy Roberts

10. Donna Louise (nee: Carvalho) “Roberts” 1. Charlebois  2m. Moody

11. Chrestien Michel Charlebois

12. Ozalie Charlebois

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine Charon

4. Marie Angelique Chagnon

5. Paul Benoit dit Livernois

6. Joseph Simeon Benoit dit Livernois

7. Peter Mitchell Benoit dit Livernois

8. Joseph Benoit dit Livernois

9. Proper Benoit dit Livernois

10. Elaine Clara Benoit dit Livernois

11. Brian Andrew Chênevert

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine Charon

4. Marie Angelique Chagnon

5. Genvieve Benoit dit Livernois

6. Françoise Amable Tétreault dit Ducharme

7. Louis Beaudry

8. Marie Charlotte Beaudry

9. Adélaide Adèle Fornier dit Prefontaine

10. Austin Lambert dit Lumbra

11. Austin Lumbra

12. Lillian May Lumbra

13. Cedric Henry Brooks

14. Brian Basil Brooks

15. Lisa Tonyo (nee: Brooks) Pouliot

Eloise Beil is a Lumbra descendant as well, from the same ancestry as Lisa Tonyo (nee: Brooks) Pouliot.

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine Charron dit Ducharme

4. Pierre Chagnon dit Larose

5. Joseph Chagnon dit Larose

6. Gabrielle (nee: Chagnon dit Beloeil) Lalime

7. Christopher Lalime

8. Jean Beoni Lalime

9. Jean Baptiste Eugene Lalime

10. Marie Joseph Arthur Lalime

11. Joseph Granville Leger Lelime

12. Jeanne Antoinette (nee: Lalime) 1m. Lincoln  2m. Kent

1. Joachim Ouentouen Arontio & Cecile Arendaeronnon Arenhatsi HURON

2. Marie Felix Arontio Aneneontha Ouentouen HURON

3. Jean Baptiste Dubuc I

4. Jean Baptiste Dubuc II

5. Jean Baptiste Dubuc III

6. Marie Rosalie Dubuc

7. Charles Poitras

8. Prosper Poitras

9. Joseph George Ozias Poitras

10. Eucilide Poitras

11. François Eucilide Poitras

12. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

Again, NOT ABENAKIS ... from and of Vermont!!

What Abenaki Community do these people live in? What Abenaki Community did their ANCESTORS live in?

The CONTEMPORARY DESCENDANT(S) chose post-1974 to dig around in their genealogical garbage can's looking for any scrap of Indian Ancestry they could find, subsequently INCORPORATED UNDER VERMONT or NH etc STATE LAWS, created GROUPS they now CLAIM TO BE "TRIBES"

And appropriated an "Abenaki" Identity that does not belong to them, with the help of course, from naive Politicians and Anthropologists etc. and a BLIND PUBLIC in and surrounding Vermont's machinations to this agenda to re-create alleged "Abenaki" Tribes" ...

When in reality and FACT, these groups are merely METIS groups claiming to be "Abenaki Tribes" ....

Just like "Chief" Paul Bunnell has asserted.

But that doesn't stop him from claiming their group is the "Koasek Abenaki Nation" or the "Koasek Traditional Band Of The Sovereign Abenaki Nation" ... now does it? 

Again, this whole State Recognition Process, was created out of Ego - Power - and CONTROL, and GREED by the State of Vermont and the groups who today claim to be "Abenakis" and "Abenaki Tribes" as well as about "status" and "identity"...

Why are Eloise Beil and John Scott Moody going to be reviewing this 5th group's Application(s) for VT State Recognition? Isn't that an absolutely conflict of interest?

Each of which has had and does continue to have a "Working Relationship" with these so-called "Abenaki" groups claiming to be "tribes" ... and has and continues to have a vested financial interest as a well as a personal interest, that these groups of alleged "Abenakis" gain Vermont State Recognition, to my thinking.

This whole dynamic is that these people are claiming an Abenaki Identity that does not belong to most of these group's members! 

Stay tuned, I am not done yet ... 

The "Abenaki" Re-Invention Dynamics are also a Cherokee Re-Invention Dynamic

I have not posted much on this blog for one very good reason:

I am working on chronologically mapping the historical records, genealogical records, newspaper articles and doing field research in both Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, as well as Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.

In the meantime, I have recently read a blog post from "Thoughts from Polly's Granddaughter" dated June 17, 2014 wherein the author of that blog stated (in part):

"We all have family stories, and while that might be find and good for sitting around the dinner table, if those stories are inaccurate or untrue, and we allow them to become engrained into our very being they could lead us to make poor decisions based on lies and deception. Over time, that can become problematic and harmful. 
This harm is magnified if one who has been influenced by false family stories becomes a leader of a nation (group) of people and he (or she) allows those false stories to play a role in the decisions he (or she) makes for that nation (group) of people."

Now, in reading this first part of her posting ....
Found here: http://www.pollysgranddaughter.com/2014/06/when-past-meets-present-part-1.html 
I have several thoughts that came to mind, and subsequently some conclusions.

First, the name Homer Walter St. Francis, Sr. of Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont came to mind.
He thought, believed, perpetuated, and promoted to himself, his family, and to anyone that would also believe him, that he and his family "were Abenaki" or "Abenakis."

And yet, he honestly was not Abenaki. Genealogically-speaking he wasn't aware that simply and merely because he lived in Swanton, didn't make him "an Abenaki" nor the fact that his surname was "St. Francis" didn't make him "an Abenaki" either. I very strongly doubt he was aware, that his surname was in fact, a "dit" name in French tradition.

Siroux Giroux dit St. Francis

Indeed, the late Homer Walter St. Francis, Sr. and his familial relatives have in fact a Huron Ancestor, and perhaps even an Algonquin ancestor, MAYBE a Mik'maq ancestor, all of them ancestors (singular) that married FRENCH in the 1600's or 1700's, does not make that family Vermont Abenakis.

It is a reality, that after the quarry died, and the fire happened in Swanton, Vermont in the early 1970's, the community was "hard hit" and the local economy plummeted, and the jobless rate went up.

Indeed, seeing how the Federal Government was "flushing" money "for Indians" after Wounded Knee, etc to varied Tribes throughout and across the United States, into Urban areas, by way of the Boston Indian Council, it was indeed a time of "It's a Good Time to BE INDIAN." And that Homer became, right along with anyone else that would follow him, join him, and promote him. Promoting oneself as being an Abenaki, within Vermont, New Hampshire etc as in Self Identification, was the name of the game. Creating an incorporation and implying it was and is "a tribe" was a huge part of that game, in which to seek, and obtain those Indian Federal Monies, by way of Federal Grants earmarked suddenly in the 1970's for Indians.

Everyone who even remotely vaguely had heard of an Indian, in their ancestral background, uttered from some long dead Grandmother wrapped up in a blanket, smoked a corn cob pipe, and or worn braids, had dark eyes, or had high cheekbones, was instantly put up on the mantelpiece and appraised by the Instant Indian descendants of New England.

And while promoting their incorporations and proclaiming to help the Indians, help themselves, with the "White Man's Money" alongside this promotion were the Archaeologists, Ethnologists and the Folklorists ready to shake hands with anyone that implied or said they were Indian. And the latter began in Vermont and New Hampshire, to ally with and promote the incorporated groups within New England.

Homer wasn't an Abenaki. He wasn't a Wabanaki either. 

And later in the Thoughts from Polly's Granddaughter article post:

...."in these perilous times when the number of fraudulent groups are growing each day; when the BIA is considering weakening the federal recognition process; and when states consider giving fake tribes state recognition."

Well here in Vermont the Legislative Representatives didn't consider the fraudulent tactics and dirty politics, they just went ahead and gave recognition to the fake "Native American" "tribes" without so much as doing any real retrospective research into the four groups backgrounds, genealogically or otherwise!

Indeed, their genealogies, the merits of their scholarly evidence, was manipulated and misinterpreted. No dog wants to check another dog for fleas as they would say.

And when these Thoughts from Polly's Granddaughter posting speaks of lies and deceptions in families, around the dinner table, being taken as being accurate and truth by the listeners descendants, I experienced this myself with my mother's paternal side of the family here in the Northeast.

"Interesting Photograph isn't it? Yes, this is your ancestor, your Great Great Great Great Grandfather named Chief Tomahawk Woodward. His wife was Laughing Sunshine or Mourning Dove or something like that." 

Indeed, this photograph was held by and perpetuated by several members of the Woodward family descendants, who have retrospectively claimed it is their ancestor, even to the point of posting their naive conclusions onto ancestry genealogical oriented websites online.

And then one day, talking to a relative, I heard about another relative, who then I contacted and received a computer print image of this above photographic duplicate. I then sought out yet a third relative who had it, down n Connecticut. She'd had her duplicate ENLARGED and hanging on her kitchen room wall even! She was PROUD that this man was HER Indian ancestry.

The problem:

She was absolutely wrong in her conclusions, about the photograph and about the identity of the man in this photograph. He was not a Woodward, he wasn't even remotely related to the family. Just a mere photograph which was very likely merely picked up somewhere along the ancestral past, from some Flea Market or Antique Store by the way, between Vermont, Connecticut and New Jersey ... and hung on the wall of that Woodward relative's living room wall. Something to point to, when having those dinner table story talks about Indians-in-the-family.

While "Thoughts from Polly's Granddaughter" is oriented to the Cherokee Nation and the dynamics of identity and tribal status etc., the dynamics she addresses are very much as well an Abenaki issue as well, of status and identity.

Homer St. Francis Sr., wasn't 'somebody' if he wasn't Indian, if he wasn't claiming to be "Abenaki." There's nothing to be really gained, in claiming to be French, or Irish, or German, or Scots, or Brit, or even Canadian. But claiming and implying one is an Indian, and be Abenaki, is icing on the cake, and one can even eat the ice cream of being identity special, at the same time.

These groups recently came out in the media, via the State sponsored Websites on Tourism.... I thought that was cute yet none the less any more accurate than before they pulled this stunt in Vermont.

At the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum its written that, "Abenaki historian Frederick M. Wiseman, Ph. D. worked with his students and others, to provide replicas..." and that "El-nu Abenaki Chief Roger Longtoe [Sheehan' and Vera Longtoe create replicas of fishing lures, hooks, sinkers, and net used by Native Peoples in the 17th Century"

So what are these people who now claim to be, and perpetuate that they are "thee Abenakis" of Vermont and New Hampshire, but mere performers, replica makers, and 'artists' who very well learned their craft, their art from books, films, and other people OUTSIDE of Vermont?

They claim they have derived from historical community? I think not.

If one looks closer, more deeper, one can discern that many of the members of these four and or five groups, within Vermont and throughout multiple States, have been Group Hopping throughout the years, since the early 1980's, having multiple memberships (in some cases even overlapping) in several groups throughout New England, and even created groups in Quebec, Canada!

I've never heard of a Lakota hopping over and becoming an Ojibway or a Makah Tribal member. Indeed a Lakota could relocate into the Makah Community at Neah Bay, and marry there, etc. A Penobscot isn't a Wampanoag, or a Mik'maq either. 

I have heard some say "I am Wabanaki"

Isn't that a POLITICAL Organization? Not a People or Person. It is a general terminology for all Wabanakiak, but it is not a person or a tribe nor a community. MAYBE ... I am wrong in this conclusion.

I have heard some Vermonter's (and or from New Hampshire) that claim they are from this or that Clan, such as Bear or Turtle, etc.

But doesn't one have to have a cohesive continuous viable externally discernable COMMUNITY that has actual Naming Ceremonies for that Clan, etc, songs, and dances etc.? 

Pow-wow's don't count, so don't even go there..... and Pow-wow Attendance isn't a legitimate Abenaki Community either, that's like being in the fraternal Improved Order of the Redman, Knights of Columbus, or the Freemasons organizations. I can put on and take off my regalia too. Penobscot doesn't wash off, or hang in a closet or get stored in a box for only when it is convenient to the person. Being Mik'maq etc isn't like wearing a coat or putting on a pair of shoes, or learning beadwork from a book, or listening to a CD, and singing those Pow-wow songs over and over, year after year. 

'Parrotting' Abenakis is what is happening in Vermont and New Hampshire. Picking up a presumed mimicked "culture" from books, and associating with Odanak, Akwesas:ne and so on, from OUTSIDE VERMONT and NEW HAMPSHIRE isn't "community" WITHIN Vt. or NH. Incorporations don't make a Tribe either. And Vermont State Recognition under that State's Laws doesn't make these groups El-nu, Missisquoi-Sokoki, Nulhegan or Koasek any more legit than yesterday. They are social clubs that are now state sanctioned by way of fraudulent evidence used to gain that 'recognition'.

If one looks deeper and closely one can discern the lies and deceptions going on within Vermont's so called "Native American" "Tribes" and their memberships. If one studies these people's genealogies, one can discern the fallacies of their concocted "I'm-an-Abenaki" stories, just like I did with the above photograph.

I took the time to do the research....

Apparently Vermont did not want to take the time to do the research on these people, their inc.'d organizations, nor their actual genealogies.....

So I will take the time to do the research.....on the Vermont's newly sanctioned and "recognized" "tribes."

In the meantime, these Abenaki Identity Thieves will continue to lie and deceive, and they will promote themselves to naive tourists coming into Vermont, who don't know any better. 

They will reach into your children's heads, in classroom promotion of Title V or VI or VII, naive as little children are, will grow up believing in the lies and deceptions of these liars and deceivers against the Abenakis. 

Vermont gets what it pays for: Lies, Deception, and Fraud.   

Ask two questions of the contemporaneous "Abenaki" self-identifiers:

WHAT COMMUNITY DO YOU COME FROM?

If they say El-nu.... know that they created themselves as a Woodland Re-Enactor Group and were part of Tolba, Inc. [read about it here on this blog]

If they say Nulhegan.... know that they created themselves [ca. 2004] out of the Indian-ist organization of the Clan of the Hawk, Inc. which Dr. Frederick M. Wiseman claims is an Indian-ist organization, and not really a Tribe. [read about it here on this blog]

If they say Missisquoi or Swanton, Vermont.... know that they created themselves in ca. 1975 as well by way of Ronald Canns, son of the late Julius Canns, that began advocating and promoting for Homer, State Recognition the minute he got into the Legislature in 1992, nary once indicating that it was his own son Ronnie that started the whole Missisquoi "Abenaki" nonsense, coming from New Hampshire in 1974, by way of the Boston Indian Council in Massachusetts, doing census through the Man Power Office.

And let's re-read the BIA Reports shall we, while we're at it [of which are posted on this blog]

If they say Koasek... again CREATED as a 501(c)3 non-profit entity within the State, under State Laws, within the Secretary of State's Office as an INCORPORATION 

And all of these groups simply derive their so-called "rich cultural heritage" from books, and people outside the State of Vermont. I can cite numerously example after example of this. 

The songs from from OUTSIDE Vermont. Anyone can buy a tape or CD, and mimic ...

Regalia's can be copied from what is seen worn at any OUTSIDE Pow-wow at Kahnawa:ke, Odanak, or elsewhere.

The Circle of Youth up in Swanton derives from the Lakota.

The Language derives from Cecile Wawanolette and her adopted son Elie Joubert (Odanak), as does the Abenaki Dances.

The mound gardening the Nulhegan profess to have been doing for generations and generations are mimic'd from a book regarding Maine Indian People's!

The Four Indians in Alburg were not correctly identified by Dr. Frederick M. Wiseman Ph.D. (but of course he knew this, as did others descended from the Partlow family) nor his "Abenaki" compatriots either. Those 4 men mentioned in the Alburg Town Records were MOHAWKS from Akwesas:ne. [that can be reviewed in this blog as well as elsewhere]. The same with the misidentification of Antoine Phillips.  He was not Sr. but rather Jr. in the photographic image coming from Mary Kinville. One can discern this from his clothing, worn in that picture!

And on and on it is proven, document by document, that these people who claim to be "Tribes" in Vermont, of "Abenakis" are not who they claim to be or imply their ancestors were. 

The lying and deceiving politicians within Vermont and New Hampshire, right along with the grave robbing and disturbing Archaeologists and Ethnologists have allied with the lying and deceiving "Abenaki" Identity and Cultural Thieves.

Vermont Tourists BE AWARE.

Then again, one gets what they pay for; but in that process ... what does one really help promote?

Genocide? Identity Theft? Cultural Appropriation?

It's not just a Cherokee or Blackfoot problem or dynamic.....

Vermont and New Hampshire have a reality of the "Emperor's New Clothes" in regards to these "Abenaki" "tribes" and the State's population seemingly doesn't see this reality, or simply just doesn't care?

Abenaki Artifacts to Return to Original Burial Ground and my thoughts on the matter ...

Abenaki Artifacts to Return to Original Burial Ground
Seven Days - VT's Independent Newspaper

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2014/03/28/abenaki-artifacts-to-return-to-original-burial-ground

Did I just read that correctly?

HOW DO THESE WANNABIAK KNOW that those bones are "THEIR ANCESTORS"? Historically and most definitely GENEALOGICALLY, the current contemporary group of persons claiming to be "Abenakis" in Franklin County, VT have NEVER proven to anyone in the Vermont Public to any convincing documented level, that they were or are HISTORICAL Abenaki Tribes. Or even connected to an Abenaki Community. Not April A. Merrill (Homer St. Francis Sr.'s alleged thieving daughter) right along with her side - kick "Abenakis" the Lampman's (in particular Louise Lampman - Larivee (Leonard "Blackie" Lampman's daughter). Or ANY of those people in Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont!

Does anyone in Vermont ever read the Attorney General's Report findings and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Federal Acknowledgement Reports ... or does everyone in Vermont have their heads up their backsides and can't smell Bullsh** in "Abenaki" La-La-Land? I am really beginning to wonder and ponder this dynamic.

I mean, Giovanna (nee: Morselli) Neudorfer - Peebles can CLAIM that as a state employees in the Division of Historic Preservation, there in Vermont, that the State Agency doesn't want to see a "market" for "Native American" and Abenaki "artifacts" where "money exchanges hands" etc.

But let's THINK about that hypocritical position/perception in what Mrs. Peebles has stated, shall we? 

According to NPS, NAGPRA, a public law enacted in 1990, “provides a process for museums and federal agencies to return certain Native American cultural items—human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony—to lineal descendants, and culturally affiliated tribes.”

Swanton's Missisquoi group of alleged Native Americans (now-State-of-VT-"recognized) have NEVER PROVEN they are the lineal descendants of the Abenakis, nor have they been shown to be culturally affiliated to any Abenaki Community, historically or otherwise. 

Fact: One VT created "tribe" recognized now by the State of VT Legislature and Governor(s), subsequently "recognized the three other groups (like they were patting each other on the backsides, in 'domino effect") BUT that was simply in reality, one FAKE "tribe" / Incorporated Group of "wannabiak" patting the other created FAKE "tribe" / Incorporated Group "recognized" by the Secretary of State agency within VT as a 501(c)3 non-profit, on the backside. The reality is nothing more than that! And the "expert" scholar's "evidence" can be documentarily proven to have been manipulated and downright falsified! This has been PROVEN at least three times, before mentioned and shown in this blog. Is the Dept. of Historical Preservation, simply supporting these "Abenaki" groups, in order to have "job security" or are they just into the business of exchanging money, in the profit scheme, of digging up those Abenaki Remains etc, and implying that those remains and cultural items 'belong' to these contemporary "abenaki" frauds, because, to do so, it is beneficial to both, D.H.P. and the frauds themselves? Think about that for a while.

What happens when D.H.P. (Dept. of Historical Preservation) gets notification of someone "accidentally" finding/ exhuming human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects and cultural patrimony within the State of Vermont and or New Hampshire ( ... any state for that matter)?

Tell me that Giovanna Peebles and the D.H.P. haven't received numerous repeated "GRANTS" and "REIMBURSEMENTS" since at least the 1970's for reburying the Abenakis and other Indigenous burials and cultural "artifacts" dug up within Vermont, that $$$$ does not "exchange hands" as a result of her and others involvement? 

Is this calling Mrs. Giovanna Peebles "calling the kettle black", when she chastises John and Anita Boucher, who by all right title and interest could have sold those "artifacts" in their possession, going against nothing in State or Federal Law in attempting to do so, and yet here is DHP representative Giovanna Peebles, claiming quote, "We do not think there should be a market for these things, but the reality is, there is a market for these things."

Yeah, right ... they wouldn't want a 'market' for these burials and associated funerary objects "artifacts" dug up in Vermont, on property owners lands, because they at DHP don't want competition or infringement on their own 'market' of getting a paycheck from NAGPRA and "anonymous donors" etc. Grants, and 'reimbursements" to evaluate, study, examine, and rebury those human remains and or "artifacts".

DHP (and their allies mentioned below) have perpetuated a 'market' or a 'racket' going on, where they have been getting paid, and do today 'get paid' ... to study, archive, and to rebury human remains and artifacts of indigenous peoples within Vermont. So does New Hampshire and every other State. 

If they weren't exchanging money, for creating a 'market' for their digging up and then reburying the deceased along with the funerary objects and cultural objects, they'd be out of a job, because they wouldn't be getting a paycheck for desecrating and disturbing and creating that market surrounding Abenaki burial sites etc.

It's all a matter of perception. The left hand claims the right hands been dirty, but forgets that both hands have been playing in the same dirt, whether it's Giovanna Peebles or Anita Boucher.

Anyone bother to do their diligent homework .... as to these "groups" claiming to be "Abenakis" in Vermont?

Any state or local government agency or institution of higher learning is considered a museum under NAGPRA because they receive federal funds through grants, loans, contracts, or other means.
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, § 3001(8); 43 C.F.R. § 10.2(a)(3)(iii)

If a federally recognized Indian tribe requests artifacts in the control or possession of a federal institution or museum, the tribe must establish cultural affiliation. NAGPRA defines cultural affiliation as “a relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced historically or prehistorically between a present day Indian tribe…and an identifiable earlier group.”

Ok, so has these State of VT "recognized" "Tribes" established cultural affiliation, in that they have convincingly traced historically and or prehistorically or GENEALOGICALLY between the present day group and the HISTORICAL Abenaki Communities/ Groups?

I think not. Not by any stretch of the imagination, implied or otherwise. What Frederick Matthew Wiseman, the late James Peterson, etc have done is IMPLIED CONNECTION(S) that the BIA's O.F.A. studied and researched, and came to the conclusion that it such implied connections to historical communities of Abenakis, was based on "smoke and mirrors" tactics. 

The D.H.P. assumes that all-human remains, funerary objects, and items of cultural patrimony can be affiliated with modern now-State recognized VT "tribal" groups, who have claimed and continue to falsely claim they are "Abenaki" (Missisquoi/Koasek/Nulhegan/ or Elnu) "tribes". 

This assumption is wrong. 

The majority of human remains that have been and are likely to be found in the states of VT (and or NH constitute what are known as unidentified and unaffiliated human remains. 

The archaeologists and so on, with their allies such as David Skinas, David Stewart-Smith, John Moody and Donna (Carvalho) Charlebois - Moody ... who TOOK HER MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME OF ROBERTS ... (trying to imply falsely that she was an O'bomsawin?) upon her divorced from Robert Charlebois, Deborah Blum, the late James Peterson, and the likes of Frederick Matthew Wiseman, PhD (to name just a few off the top of my head right now)... right along with Giovanna Peebles ASSUME that those bones are the ancestors of the people comprising now-State recognized VT "tribal" groups. Such is not the very likely reality. They all pat each other on the backsides, smiling at one another, for a job well done, after a body is dug up or pottery shard is found, and then reburied after pictures are taken, and they each and most everyone of them receives their paychecks, reimbursements, grants etc.

Those employee's of the Department of Historical Preservation, etc along with Giovanna Peebles GET PAID to dig up i.e. "preserve" "discovered" archaeological sites and burials, through NAGPRA Grants and Reimbursements, and so doesn't John and Donna Moody as well. They are PAID for their "services" ... time ... travel expenses etc. 

So there IS a continuing consistent, viable MARKET for digging up Native Peoples and their burial items within VT and NH. Because if they would stop, they wouldn't be getting PAID in the legalized State Sponsored MARKET of looking for, and digging up the ANCESTORS OF ODANAK's contemporary Abenakis, etc.

Giovanna Peebles, and John and Donna Moody would have put in job applications elsewhere! Because their "market" in living off the "bones and burial items" days would be over, if they did not "discover" "uncover" and "preserve and protect" those bones and burial remains. 

Whether Mrs. Anita Boucher happened to sell, trade or bequeath under some hidden financial arrangement between an "anonymous donor" or what have you, versus the DHP and their "market" in dealing with Abnaki and Native Indigenous Burial Remains and Funerary items, its simply a matter of perception. The "money exchanging hands" is the SAME, and it is just as dirty and desecrating to those Abenaki ancestors the Missisquoi contemporary post 1975 incorporate group wants to so desperately claim for themselves as "their ancestors".

As for Bernie Mortz, claiming that, quote, "These are almost like the bones of our ancestors" ...

Bernie Mortz is full of sh** ... those bones are the ancestors of Odanak's late Chief, Nicholas Panadis and his families ancestors who lived and died in Missisquoi. 

And if the Koasek Wannabiak Group that was created and orchestrated by the late Nancy Lee Millette - Cruger - Lyons - Doucet was legitimate and historically connected to Koasek Community, then how come Bernie Mortz has recently left the group as it's Chief, taking with him the website they had, and ran off to, the arms of the Nulhegan bunch up in Orleans County, Vermont? Go figure ...

Then again, Vermont's had its head up it's arse for a while now, regarding Abenakis vs. Vermont Wannabiak, preferring to "recognize" the latter instead of the the Abenakis. 

Why?

Because it was and is easier and more financially sustainable to the State of Vermont's corrupt politicians and agencies such as the DHP to "recognize" and play 'Patty Cake' with the "Abenaki" PRETENDERS like Bernie Mortz and Donald Warren Stevens Jr. etc due the 'mutually beneficial alliances' and the 'developed relationships/arrangements' between the Vermont/NH "Abenaki" FRAUDS and the DHP folks since the 1970's!

It's all about the $$MONEY$$ 

Very Recent Events in "Abenaki" La-La-Land of Vermont

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/an-almost-auction-of-abenaki-artifacts-reopens-old-wounds/Content?oid=2340920

It is an implied "Missisquoi""Abenaki" "tribal" community. Of which they are not. 

"Giovanna Peebles , (another "Abenaki" advocate with a clear "working relationship" with the groups claiming to be Abenakis) referred questions to DHP head Laura Trieschmann, who directed them to Dale Azaria, the general counsel for the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development." 

"Ethan Merrill described as the state's "monkey-wrenching" of the arrangement with the anonymous benefactor" ... and who was this anonymous benefactor, and why have they insisted on maintaining their cloak of anonymity, identity-wise and very likely financially as well?

David Van Deusen, another member of the VCNAA ... (yet again he has been allied with and developed a working relationship with the four "Abenaki" groups for years.)

John Crock is an associate professor and director of UVM's Consulting Archaeology Program (yet another ally/advocate/ with a "working relationship" with the "Abenakis" can proclaim or imply that he and the university has been working with the Abenakis around burial issues." I do not think that accurate at all.

"The "Missisquoi "Abenaki" group finds themselves struggling a second time for control over "their ancestors" sacred possessions. ... Where the laws failed, its possible cultural empathy and a dose of diplomacy will prevail...", again, based on yet again POLITICAL – GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL DECEIT, DECEPTION and blatant DISTORTIONS by the afore-mentioned VCNAA and the four groups now State Recognized as generic Native American “Tribes” attempting to insinuate that they were State recognized as “Abenaki Tribes.” 

Which they are not. Those “artifacts” and those human remains do not belong to “their ancestors” … but rather, in reality, belong to Odanak’s ancestors that lived within Missisquoi and Vermont. 

The "Abenaki" of Vermont: A Living Culture Video

The "Abenaki" of Vermont: A Living Culture was produced over a 4 year period with the cooperation of a number of alleged "Abenaki" families (those persons and or some of their relatives who claim to be "Abenakis" now living within VT and or NH) around the state and the guidance of volunteer Native American Advisory Panel (that evolved into the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs today). Jeffrey Benay, Frederick Matthew Wiseman etc all had been involved with this Advisory Panel to the VT Governors over the years...

I do not own this video.

No Copyright infringement is intended or implied by my person. This upload is for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES and to expose the Cultural Appropriation by Non-"Abenaki" of Vermont and New Hampshire, etc.

While Cheryl L. (nee: Anderson) Heath is a descendant of the Odanak Obomsawin family, having lived in VT for several generations whose ancestors came from N'dakinna throughout, some of the parties/persons in this film have NEVER proven a shred of documented Abenaki connection(s) EXCEPT by what comes out of their mouths as "oral history" that has to this day, not been substantiated or proven. Lampman's have NEVER proven connection(s) to ANY historical community of Abenakis, let alone proven ANYTHING. The family allied with Homer St. Francis Sr. and his family in Swanton, VT. and were a very dynamic documentarily within the Incorporation of "Abenakis" so called, now recognized by the State of VT. By what evidence or proof documentarily now one in the VT or NH Public has yet to view or substantiate. April (St. Francis) Rushlow - Merrill claims as she does in this video, and yet after 2007 still has yet to substantiate or prove a single argument that she throws out there to the VT Public, that they, or she is in fact, connected to any historical Abenaki Community, Tribe or otherwise. Even the BIA OFA stated as such. The claims and stories are built on sands of illusions and delusions. profiting and pilfering, appropriated and outright perpetuating GENOCIDE in just another varied form, against Abenakis, in Vermont and throughout the Northeast, the likes of which the Eugenics Survey would admire indeed. State Recognition in VT of incorporate groups does not validate any of these people, then or now. Video taping alleged re-invented appropriated "traditions" "histories" "alleged "values" and "experiences" does not validate these people. The VT Folklife Center attempted to document Abenakis. Are Abenakis of and from VT being shown, or is a grab bag of wannabiak, appropriated and implied that they are "thee Abenakis" of VT and NH without so much as any evidence/ connection to historical Community?

http://reinventedvermontabenaki.blogspot.com/

Study their GENEALOGIES. Study their HISTORICAL RECORDS. Study their Incorporation(s).

This video is uploaded for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES and no infringement against copyright is intended or implied by my person.

This video was obviously created and perpetuated for POLITICAL PURPOSES to sway both naive Politicians and the VT and NH Public.

Some are obviously wannabiak, most are disconnected, most are perpetuating an Indian-ist or Pan-Indian-ism within this video.

Are these people Abenakis? Or are they wannabiak, using surrounding Abenakis, to legitimize themselves?

For example, Louis Lampman - Larivee claims her father Blackie Lampman TOLD his children about HIS GRANDMOTHER, so it is his perception that he perpetuated into his children AFTER they had joined up, and allied with Homer St. Francis Sr. and his family. So it is a matter of perception and indoctrination of what they believe about their ancestor. Not what is documented pre-1970. Even the BIA's OFA revealed this in their 2005-2007 Reports on this Incorporation that implied that they are "Abenakis".

The Abenaki Dance Troupe that Cheryl L. Anderson (wife of David N. Heath) speaks of, is culture that comes from and derived out of Odanak, an Abenaki Community both historically and comtemporaneous, through Jeanne (nee: Deforge) Brink, who is an Abenaki Obomsawin descendant. The Abenaki dances did not come from ANY known VT Abenaki family from of VT not connected to Odanak. Same dynamics with the language (contrary to Louise Lampman and her cousin Brent Reader). Again, STUDY the genealogical and historical records of the varied persons in this video. See where the ancestors have come from, how they were, themselves, identifying themselves to be, throughout the generations. Homer St. Francis Sr. and his daughter April St. Francis - Merrill hijacked an "Abenaki" persona along with a thousand other people (wannabiak) and a few legitimate Abenakis from and of Odanak who happened to live in the States, decided to cluster around the fake "Abenakis" because it helped to promote themselves. The dynamics benefited, and so Molly Keating and her daughter Lynn Murphy etc helped in the GENOCIDE of their own people to my thinking, and they didn't even fathom that, until it was too late to stop what they were doing!

Either way, its an "entertaining" video and while I do not agree with the "message" or the authenticity of the contents, for its time and place, the people therein this video obviously believed in their illusions and delusions, what with the Indian-ism's and Pan-Indian-ists perception(s) etc. Some of the people in this video are now deceased, or have moved on, relocating outside the state of Vermont when the Indian persona or their endeavors caught up with them.

Cowasuck Powwow 1994 at Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts

This is an older video taken in August of 1994 at Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. The event was obviously a Non-Native and Native Event planned and orchestrated by an Incorporated Group of alleged Cowasuck Abenakis, led by Paul Wilson Pouliot, of Franklin, Massachusetts. Paul Pouliot, claimed his house as the Red Hawk Lodge situated at his residece of 160 Dailey Drive, in Franklin, MA. He now lives with his 2nd wife, Denise (nee: Beauregard) Mahegan. It was Jamie Mehigan who was married to Denise Beauregard (who claims to be Mikmaq or Micmak or L'Nuk) by Cowasuck "Chief" Paul Wilson Pouliot and his 1st wife Linda (nee: White) Pouliot.

Why put this video up on my blog?

Well, it is educational. It is "entertaining" (if one wants to look at it that way) of what Wannabiak look like, sound like, and act like. For some reason(s) I still can't quite stop from laughing out loud about, these sorts of "Pow-Wow's" ATTRACT all sorts of Wannabe Abenakis, Mohawks, Cherokee's, you-name-it, they flock to these events, all dressed up in what they deem culturally appropriate based on their perceptions of what-is-authentic. For example, the larger-than-life "medicine bags" in front of their garments.

"Hey, look at me" I carry my medicine pouch, therefore I must be a REAL Abenaki.

The leather headbands, the earrings, the trinkets.

But more importantly, I want people to listen to Jeanne Antoinette (nee: Lalime) Lincoln - Kent in this video.
You will see her throughout this video, speaking of how she feels, that at Pow Wow's, that her grandmother came and gave her a hug, though she'd been deceased for many years. Her mother doesn't understand her daughters beliefs, that were "sudden" and contrary to her upbringing. That her son, does not agree with his mother's "ways" etc. Indeed, to some, they conclude, based on their perceptions, that a Pow-wow, is a spiritual gathering. Perhaps it is for them, and perhaps it is not anything of the sort.

This is a Educational Video. It is used for Education and Research on Groups, "Tribes" and Organizations and Peoples.

No Copyright is intended or implied by posting this. This was a DVD+R format given to my person some years ago, I believe transferred from an older VHS format.

This video of the "Abenaki" Pow-wow in Salisbury, MA on August 20-21, 1994. Herein, the viewer can hear, alleged "Mohawk" Onkwe Tase and "Abenakis" like Jeanne (nee: Lalime) Lincoln - Kent of Winsted, CT a.k.a. "Morning Star", Roger Jean Descharnais a.k.a. "Running Elk" and Al "Greyhawk" Milano (then of Athens, Maine... and his Mohawk wife "Many Winds". Paul Rene Tamburro,  many others, that you will see herein.

There are as well within this video Rick Obomsawin, (now-Chief) of Odanak, Qc, Canada, John Henry Brin a.k.a. "Running Deer", Rene George Blanchette a.k.a. "Grandfather Maple" and Paul Wilson Pouliot a.k.a. "Red Hawk" etc and many many others.

Many of whom are now deceased and or elderly.

NOT ELDERS, as in someone who have or had connection(s) to the Abenakis at all.

I do not imply or state that any portion of this video is authentic or legitimately accurate. Please take all that is said in this video .. "with a huge grain of salt" ... and please look at each individual's genealogical connections or the lack of connection to the Abenakis. Abenaki Community? Abenaki Language? Abenaki Connection(s)?

Aside from Richard "Rick" Obomsawin, of Odanak etc who were attending this gathering in August 1994...

If you listen closely, one can hear the "Indian-ist Speak" ... that sort of Indian-ist linguistically nuance that comes across  ... some of these people are now members of Vermont Recognized "Tribes" having been members of one group, fled to another and another and another over the years, holding many incorporate "membership" cards in their bags of trickster tricks.

Abenakis? Cowasucks? I think not.

You decide for yourselves.

Am I "bitter"? Or "angry"? (I have been accused of being that)

Nope, just doing my homework on the Wannabiak and sharing my results on this blog ... and my utter disgust of it all. Sure, I could have tucked tail and slunk off into just "walking away" without so much as a wave goodbye to this dynamic, but where would the fun be in doing that? I have sought out the truth, and been vilified for it. I don't want their version of the truth, as they (the wannabiak) want me to believe, but I have sought out the actual pieces of the puzzle to my own "abenaki" ness, even in my own ancestors descendants.

Me no stupid human being, who thinks everyone so stupid (or gullible). Okwe Tase likes to speak that guttural half sentence, Me no Kemo Sabe nonsense. Pan-Indian-ism's and putting forth what they assume is Native, Indian, "Native American". You hear it in their names. "Three Buffallo's" "White Fawn" "Running Elk" "Morning Star" "Spirit Walker" etc etc etc. I feel like I just heard an Indian-ist version of Noah's Ark, what with the 2 Butterflies, 3 Buffalo's, Six Deer's etc etc.

The issue and reality is, these people were not known by these names UNTIL they "Indian-ized" themselves.

Reminds me of? Hmm (let me think of it)... Oh yeah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-lK4c6CS4

For example, Mrs. Kent here of CT., has had many membership "Cards" in many FAKE "Abenaki" groups, since she began Indian-izing herself, recreating her persona as an Indian-ist/ "Abenaki". This video shows a part of this process.

Later still, she evolved into changing her look, persona, making herself appear more "native"
Many Indian - ist, based on their Indian - ist perception(s) of what-an-Indian-looks like, do this sort of dynamic.

They are not Tribes. They were NEVER Abenaki Tribes.

Even if the State of Vermont or New Hampshire "recognizes" these State of VT incorporated groups, as Native American "Tribes".

But hey, you decide whether to afford these pretenders of reinvented "Abenakis".

The State of VT and NH "entertain" these pretenders because it is yet another form of GENOCIDE against Abenakis throughout N'dakinnna. They mock, dress up, and pretend to be.... watch the video, then watch it again.

LISTEN to the whole nefarious illusions/delusions of being alleged "Abenaki".

Follow their genealogical backgrounds.

Not what comes out of their mouths in Indian-ist Speak.

This is why this video from August 1994 of the "Cowasuck" with Jeanne Kent, makes me surmise she's a heck of a Indian-ist comedian of the Cowasuck.

Oh wait, she isn't Metis? You mean, she's now an authentic Vermont Nulhegan "Abenaki" artist playing around with gourds. Sure, she's a decent artist, just like Rhonda Besaw - True, but the question remains.

Are they really Abenaki, Are they really Wabanaki?

Or are they making it up, as they go along?

You decide.