Seven months. Seven new sites. Seven chances to move in solidarity toward truth.

Over the course of 2025, partners committed to surfacing the truths of colonization and oppression will engage with local communities on a journey across land and water in the place known for millennia by the Wabanaki people as the Dawnland. Together, we will shine a light on the ways that Indigenous, Black, and settler-descendent populations are represented—or not—in Maine’s commemorative landscape.

Convened by the public history nonprofit Atlantic Black Box, the Walks for Historical & Ecological Recovery (WHERE) are a broad-based and community-engaged effort carried out in partnership with Tribal nations of the Dawnland and many local and regional organizations.

Surfacing suppressed stories of genocide and survival, enslavement and resistance, displacement and represencing.