Vanderbilt University: University of Ottawa, Vanderbilt forge new partnership on Indigenous digital archives and mobile history research. “The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) and Vanderbilt University are working together to advance Indigenous-led knowledge preservation and research through a new international agreement. uOttawa has signed a new memorandum of understanding with Vanderbilt, […]

Chestertown Spy: Sharing Stories of the Chesapeake: Chesapeake Homelands Project Kicks Off. “Adkins Arboretum and Beech Works are excited to announce the first offerings from Chesapeake Homelands, a new project that shares stories from the diverse Indigenous cultures that make up the Chesapeake Bay region.”

Salt Lake Tribune: New database unlocks the history of an LDS congregation unlike any other. “From 1880 to 1966, more than a thousand of these Indigenous members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found ways to blend their Native identities with the young faith. In doing so, they left behind thousands of records — photos, letters, maps, personal histories and more — now all […]

Washington Post: Trump’s border wall expansion just bulldozed an ancient tribal site. This link goes to an MSN-syndicated article which has no paywall. “In Arizona, construction crews ran heavy machinery through and destroyed a roughly 60-to-70-foot swath of an intaglio, a more than 200-foot-long ground etching that looks like a fish and is thought to be at least 1,000 years old, said Richard […]

Tulane University: Now open for research: The David Elliott Draper collection on Mardi Gras Indians. “The archival collection contains audio reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, photographic negatives, research notes, annotated drafts, and related materials compiled by David Elliott Draper for his 1973 Tulane University Ph.D. dissertation, The Mardi Gras Indians: The Ethnomusicology of Black […]

New-to-me, from Library of Congress: Preserving U.S. Indigenous Government Websites: From Directory to Digital Archive. “As a 2025 Junior Fellow, Maggie Jones helped build the United States Indigenous Government Websites Web Archive with the guidance of her mentor, Giselle Aviles. In this interview, they describe how the collection developed from a list of over 500 tribes and what that process […]

KIMA: New website shares data about the Yakama Reservation. “A new website has hit the internet, which shares data about the Yakama Nation…. This new resource has information about people, economic vitality, education, health, housing and more in the borders of the Yakama Reservation.”

Upcoming #WabanakiStudies Webinars for 2026

"The #Wabanaki Studies Webinars are back for the spring and we're excited to see and learn from Wabanaki citizens doing such meaningful work. This is a great opportunity to learn more about our cultures, histories, and sovereignty from experts across our homelands.

The webinars are free and open to the public.

- Jan 21- #BrianneLolar - Wabanaki Studies in 2026 [already passed]
- January 28- #KayaLolar & #SagePhillips - Wabanaki Youth & Policy
- Feb 4 - #RogerPaul
- February 11 - #SuzanneGreenlaw
- Feb 25 - #DamonGalipeau
- March 4 - #JohnNeptune
- March 11 - #ChrisNewell - If You Lived During the American Revolution
- April 1 - #BonnieNewsom - Swordfish in Past Wabanaki Lifeways
- April 8 - #MaulianBryant - #WabanakiAlliance
- April 2 9- Kaya Lolar, Sage Phillips, and Youth
- May 6 - #DwayneTomah - #WabanakiLanguages
May 13 - #ApemesimGalipeau

FMI and to register:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdI7VEREUSAy_PYfEHCt0wfsNp_nQjZ5U7b9PNRXdqWWHYkgw/viewform?pli=1

Source:
https://mailchi.mp/wabanakialliance/wabanaki-alliance-newsletter-11039681?e=7e7095a76c

#WabanakiAlliance #MaineTribes #MaineFirstNations #Dawnland #NativeAmericanCulture #NativeAmericanLanguage #TraditionalWays #NativeAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #NativeAmericanCulturalPreservation

Aacimotaatiiyankwi: Introducing the Myaamia Heritage Foundation. “The Myaamia Heritage Foundation (MHF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. The MHF furthers the Tribe’s cultural mission by promoting and funding research that advances Myaamia cultural knowledge, supporting Myaamia artists and scholars, and providing educational opportunities for […]

Native News Online: NABS Documents 134 More Survivor Stories, Expands Digital Archive in 2025. “This past year, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)interviewed more than 130 Indian boarding school survivors, expanded its digital archive, and released the second volume of a curriculum about the boarding school era. That’s according to the organization’s […]