Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England

Further Reading

366 abenaki “I have made a new ocean for you all to swim in,” he said. Then all the fish went out of his fish trap. They went again into the ocean. To this day, because fish are foolish, they still swim into fish traps and get caught. But ever since then, no one has ever managed to catch all the fish again. Notes 1. David Stewart-Smith, personal communication, July 2011. 2. Laurent and other writers use the French spelling, “Abenakis.” 3. Jesse Bruchac is currently retranslating Masta’s book and cautions that Masta himself mistranslated a good deal of the Abenaki. Personal communication, July 2011. 4. The early Jesuit missionaries who recorded Abenaki rendered the nasalized, unrounded “o” as an 8. 5. Teedyuscung was chosen to lead the eastern Delawares after the Penn family stole over a million acres of their homeland in the 1737 “Walking Purchase.” Having united the eastern Delawares, he helped negotiate the 1758 Treaty of Easton, agreeing to peace with the colonists in exchange for the right to remain in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley and a full investigation of the Walking Purchase. In 2004 the Delaware Nation tried unsuccessfully to sue for the return of some of those original lands. 6. John Moody is an ethnohistorian who, with his wife, Donna Roberts Moody (Abenaki ), runs the Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions in White River Junction, Vermont. 7. Settlers called this formation “The Old Man in the Mountain” and mourned its so-called collapse in 2003. To Abenaki people, however, he left voluntarily, going home. 8. Lisa Brooks. 9. Moody; see note 6 above. 10. “Awasos” are black bears. Further Reading abenaki authors Bachofner, Carol Willette. Breakfast at the Brass Compass. Rockland me: Front Porch Editions, 2009. Print. —. Daughter of the Ardennes Forest. Charlotte nc: Main Street Rag, 2007. Print. —. I Write in the Greenhouse. Rockland me: Front Porch Editions, 2011. Print. —. Native Moons, Native Days. Greenfield Center ny: Bowman Books, 2012. Print. Native New England Authors Series, vol. 7. Further Reading 367 Brooks, Lisa. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Print. Brooks, Lisa, and Cassandra Brooks. “The Reciprocity Principle and itek: Understanding the Significance of Indigenous Protest on the Presumpscot.” International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 3.2 (2010): 11–28. Print. Brooks, Lisa, Donna Roberts Moody, and John Moody. “Native Space.” Where the Great River Rises: An Atlas of the Upper Connecticut River Watershed in Vermont and New Hampshire. Ed. Rebecca A. Brown. Hanover nh: Dartmouth College Press, 2009. 133–37. Print. Bruchac, James. Be Good. Greenfield Center ny: Bowman Books, 2010. Print. Bruchac, James, and Joseph Bruchac. At Home on the Earth. Cleveland oh: Modern Curriculum Press, 2001. Print. Bruchac, Jesse. Mosbas and the Magic Flute. Greenfield Center ny: Bowman Books, 2010. Print. —. “Western Abenaki Dictionary and Radio Online: Home of the Abenaki Language .” WesternAbenaki.com. Web. 11 Aug. 2011. Bruchac, Jesse, Joseph Alfred, Elie Joubert, and Jeanne Brink. L8dwaw8gan Wji Abaznodakaw8gan / The Language of Basket Making. Greenfield Center ny: Bowman Books, 2010. Print. Bruchac, Joseph. Above the Line: New Poems. Albuquerque: West End Press, 2003. Print. —. Bowman’s Store: A Journey to Myself. New York: Lee & Low Books, 2001. Print. —. Dawn Land. Golden co: Fulcrum Publishing, 1995. Print. —. The Faithful Hunter: Abenaki Stories. Greenfield Center ny: Greenfield Review Press, 1988. Print. —. Hidden Roots. Greenfield Center ny: Bowman Books, 2010. Print. —. Long River. Golden co: Fulcrum Publishing, 1995. Print. —. March Toward the Thunder. New York: Dial Books, 2008. Print. —. Ndakinna (Our Land): New and Selected Poems. Albuquerque: West End Press, 2003. Print. —. Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers ’ Festival. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. Print. —. The Waters Between: A Novel of the Dawn Land. Hanover nh: University Press of New England, 1998. Print. —. The Wind Eagle and Other Abenaki Stories. Greenfield Center ny: Greenfield Review Press, 1985. Print. —. The Winter People. New York: Dial, 2002. Print. Bruchac, Joseph, and James Bruchac. When the Chenoo Howls: Native American Tales of Terror. New York: Walker & Company, 1998. Print. Bruchac, Margaret. Dreaming Again: Algonkian Poetry. Greenfield ny: Bowman Books, 2012. Print. —. Malian’s Song. Middlebury: Vermont Folklife Center, 2006. Print. 368 abenaki Bruchac, Margaret, Siobhan Hart, and H. Martin Wobst. Indigenous Archaeologies: A Reader on Decolonization. Walnut Creek ca: Left Coast Press, 2010. Print. Caruso, Donna Laurent. “Abenaki Filmmaker Earns Luminaria Award.” Indian Country Today...