NH Humanities to Go!
NEW!! Anne now has two new presentations available through “HUMANITIES TO GO”!
Humanities To Go is the statewide speakers bureau sponsored by NH Humanities. Nonprofit organizations and community groups can offer high quality cultural programming to the public at minimal cost to the host. For more info about how to host an event, go to: https://www.nhhumanities.org/program/now-who-shall-judge-the-indianshow-500-years-of-colonization-has-impacted-the-abenaki-peoples-of-new-hampshire-and-the-northeast
Gluskabe - The Magical & Powerful Culture Hero Central to Wabanaki Storytelling
In this traditional Wabanaki storytelling presentation, Anne Jennison will introduce Gluskabe, who is at the center of an entire body of lesson stories that are central to the Wabanaki cultures of New Hampshire and the Northeast. Gluskabe is not the Creator, nor is he human; rather he is somewhere in between. Gluskabe has magical powers, is as tall as the white pine trees, and a friend to the Alnobak (the human beings). Layered with multiple embedded meanings, Gluskabe stories reveal the central spiritual and ethical beliefs of the Wabanaki peoples. They teach traditional Wabanaki understandings about how to live in harmony and balance with Mother Earth – and what kinds of things can happen when that balance is disrupted. Each time a Gluskabe story is heard, something new can be discovered.
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"Now Who Shall Judge the Indians? "How 500 Years of Colonization Has Impacted the Abenaki Peoples of New Hampshire and the Northeast
The "People of the Dawnland" (Abenaki/Wabanaki) of New Hampshire and the Northeast are the first Indigenous peoples in North America to have had contact with Europeans. In this presentation, Anne examines how European colonization of North America impacted generations of Abenaki/Wabanaki people and highlights the ways in which the Abenaki/Wabanaki peoples have acted as agents of their own change through education, self-advocacy, efforts to revitalize their languages and traditional arts, and by working with archeologists, anthropologists, and scientists to recover and reveal more about their history and traditional knowledge.
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