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In the Field Since spring 2020, the Abenaki Land Link Project has been helping Vermont gardeners, homesteaders and farmers grow traditional crops for Abenaki citizens. On the last day of Open Farm Week, Chief Don Stevens of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation joins up with Healthy Roots Collaborative and West Farm to lead an interactive exploration of the project. Attendants learn about seed saving and sustainable gardening, the historical significance of the three sisters crops, the legend of Mother Corn, and food sovereignty efforts to foster collaboration between the Abenaki people and the current stewards of their land. ....
Using technology ranging from buckets to tubing, the top of a woodstove to a high-tech reverse osmosis machine, sugarmakers condense sap from the maple tree to liquid gold. The Abenaki people, who lived on the land we now call Vermont for thousands of years, are an essential part of the sugaring story. Learn about how The Abenaki developed methods of tapping trees and using sap that they later taught to white colonists in the virtual program, Traditional Abenaki Sugaring and Stories, Thursday, March 25, 7 p.m. Chief Don Stevens of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation will share the maple syrup story and ancient Abenaki sugaring traditions. ....
The Mountain Times By Amanda Gokee/VTDigger A eugenics survey in Vermont sought to “breed a better Vermonter” by sterilizing and institutionalizing Indigenous people, French-Canadians, and people who were mixed-race, poor or disabled. Ninety years after the 1931 survey got underway, lawmakers are proposing an official apology for the state-supported program that tore families apart. Abenaki people in Vermont say the ripple effects of the eugenics movement are still felt today and an apology from the state is an important step in repairing the relationship. “You have to at least acknowledge that there’s a wound there before it can heal,” said Chief Don Stevens of the Nulhegan band of Abenaki, one of the four tribes in Vermont that gained state recognition in 2011 and 2012. ....
New UVM Research Vessel Under Construction The University of Vermont (UVM) plans to replace its aging research boat with a hybrid electric “model of seaworthy sustainability”. The quiet, low-emission vessel will be able to run on electric power for two hours and be used as a floating classroom and laboratory for lake education and science. Click here to read more on the UVM website. Update on the Invasive Zebra Mussel First discovered in the southern part of Lake Champlain in 1993, zebra mussels are now found throughout the lake in shallow water areas. Juvenile and adult zebra mussels attach to any hard surface including native freshwater mussels, the lake’s most imperiled taxa. The Lake Champlain Committee is working with Michael Lew-Smith of Arrowwood Environmental to document the impacts of the invasive zebra mussels on native mussel populations as a first step in the conservation strategy. Learn more about zebra mussel impacts from Michael and fellow biolo ....