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Umaine News Bilingual Signage — English And Penobscot — Now At Umaine, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing & Communications

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Screenshot of the UMaine News webpage featuring a story regarding the fact that new University of Maine building and road signage on campus was now bilingual, English and Penobscot.

Maine-Wabanaki Reach Newsletter, Summer 2019, Wabanaki Reach, Maria Girouard, Barbara Kates, Penthea Burns

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Wabanaki REACH Executive Director Maria Girouard explains the move by the organization to change the acronym from Reconciliation, established during the work with the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 2012-2015, to Restoration to more accurately reflect the organization's ongoing work in "restorative practices, restorative talking circles, restorative justice, and decolonization."

Headlines in this issue the following:

• From Reconciliation to Restoration
• Within the Healing Circle
• Maine's Bicentennial and Mainers Reach for the Truth
• REACH at Maine Schools and Youth Groups
• The Truth Commission and Beyond

Photo Essay: Holding Up The Sky: Wabanaki People, Culture, History & Art, Tilly Laskey

Maine History

Holding up the Sky is on view at Maine Historical Society through February 1, 2019. The exhibition gallery is located at 489 Congress St. in Portland. Please visit MaineHistory.org for hours and ticket information.

Panel #2: The Maine-Missouri Crisis And The Politics Of Slavery, Mary T. Freeman, Matthew Mason, Diane Mutti Burke, Patrick Rael

Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference

A panel that included three presentations:

African Americans and the Political Consequences of Maine Statehood, Mary T. Freeman

Doughface Pioneer: John Holmes of Maine, 1773-1843, Matthew Mason

Fire Bell in the Night: The Establishment of a Slave Society in Jefferson's Purchase, Diane Mutti Burke

Crosscurrents: The Daponte String Quartet Explores The Mixed Musics Of Early Maine, Daponte String Quartet

Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference

A performance by musical artists Ferdinand "Dino" Liva (violin), Lydia Forbes (violin), Kirsten Monke (viola), and Myles Jordan (cello).

Program notes by Kirsten Monke provide the following background: When we learned about the notated songs of Membertou (c. early 1500s- 1611), a major shaman-chief of the Mi’kmaq nation, the idea for this program began to percolate. What diversity of music might there have been as so many different peoples explored, fished, and colonized Maine’s rocky coast and European influences began to permeate the land? Fragments of elegant china, unearthed at archaeological sites such as Fort Pemaquid, illustrate how some European …

Liberty To Slaves: The Black Loyalist Controversy, Michael Anthony White

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Individuals of African descent who arrived in Nova Scotia during and after the War for American Independence have been the subject of extensive commentary by historians. Spurred by the rise of Social History in the 1970s, these individuals have increasingly been identified as a coherent group – particularly by the historian James W. St. G. Walker, whose pioneering 1976 monograph did a great deal to create the term “black Loyalist” as a category of analysis. In Walker’s wake many other researchers have expanded the concept, which now has a prominent place in the public historical memory of Nova Scotia. However, …

Maine-Wabanaki Reach Newsletter, Winter 2019, Wabanaki Reach, Penthea Burns

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

The Winter 2019 cover story for the Wabanaki REACH newsletter announces the appointment of Maria Girouard as REACH Executive Director. Headlines include:

• New and Good
• Wellness in Wabanaki Communities
• Decolonization with Our Whole Selves Next Steps in Non-Native Communities
• The Truth Commission and Beyond
• Woliwon ~ Woliwoni ~ Walalin ~ Thank You
• Protect the Children ~ Protect ICWA