Public Hearing for LD 395 and LD 785 Maine residents: public hearings for two significant bills related to Wabanaki sovereignty will take place on Thursday, February 19th, 2026. Testimony for LD 395, An Act to Restore Access to Federal Laws Beneficial to the Wabanaki Nations, will be heard by the Judiciary Committee at the State House at 10am, and … Continue reading Advocacy alert | Wabanaki sovereignty
ABB Event | The Just History Project with Researcher Bill Grabin 7/23/25
This Wednesday, Atlantic Black Box is honored to host a presentation by Bill Grabin, who in 2020 joined a local effort to uncover the suppressed history of Wabanaki and Black residents of what are now the towns of Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and Arundel. Over the next five years, Bill led the research that culminated in the creation of the Just History Database.
WHERE2024 Event : The Norridgewock Memory Walk, Hosted by Wabanaki REACH on 8/17/24
This August marks the 300th year since the brutal massacre of hundreds of Wabanaki / Abenaki women, children, and elders committed by a raiding party from York. Wabanaki REACH, in collaboration with Atlantic Black Box, invites your participation in a WHERE2024 walk to take place at the Historic Pines in Madison, Maine.
Revolutionary Spaces Events: “Bounty” film on Indigenous resilience showing daily at the Old State House
Hosted by Revolutionary Spaces in collaboration with Upstander Project Showing daily at the Old State House starting July 1 GET TICKETS Bounty captures Penobscot families reading and reacting to bounty proclamations that incentivized the scalping of Indigenous people. Filmed in the Old State House, where many of these laws were signed, the film confronts the brutal … Continue reading Revolutionary Spaces Events: “Bounty” film on Indigenous resilience showing daily at the Old State House
Pejepscot Portage Mapping Project Event | Two-Eyed Seeing: Moving through Place & Story at Pejepscot on 2/12/24
Hosted by the Pejepscot Portage Mapping Project Monday, February 12, 2024 6-7:30 p.m.23 Pleasant Street, BrunswickMorrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library(Snow date: Monday, March 11) Two-Eyed Seeing: Moving through Place & Story at Pejepscot When people talk about the history of a place, they are often talking about the history they see with one eye: … Continue reading Pejepscot Portage Mapping Project Event | Two-Eyed Seeing: Moving through Place & Story at Pejepscot on 2/12/24
First Parish Portland Event | Bounty – A Film Screening and Conversation with Penobscot Ambassador Maulian Dana on 5/6
Sat, May 6, 2023 at 3:00 PM Parish Hall at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Meeting House425 Congress Street, Portland, Maine REGISTER HERE This event is part of First Parish’s ongoing truth telling and reconciliation process of telling the dark story of a bounty posse against the Penobscot in 1757 that members of our early … Continue reading First Parish Portland Event | Bounty – A Film Screening and Conversation with Penobscot Ambassador Maulian Dana on 5/6
Event | Interacting with Wabanaki Maine History on 11/14
Hosted by Maine Wabanaki REACH November 14, 2021 at 2:00 PM This program is a two hour interactive experience in which we engage in a story of particular events in the history of 400-years of colonization of Wabanaki people by Europeans in this territory now called the state of Maine. This highly engaging experience requires … Continue reading Event | Interacting with Wabanaki Maine History on 11/14
Confronting Place Ignorance in Education
By Fiona Hopper In January 2020, Starr Kelly, Curator of Education at the Abbe Museum, led a workshop for the social studies vertical team (a group comprised of teachers, parents, and students in Portland, Maine) and partner organizations titled Can We Decolonize Educational Spaces?: A Critical Look at Settler Colonialism and Empire Building. Starr asked … Continue reading Confronting Place Ignorance in Education