Wabanaki Stewardship of Ash “For many Wabanaki people, basket making signifies a process of decolonization, as the production of baskets is inseparable from assertions of tribal/band sovereignty, land use rights, and indigenous identities in twenty-first-century America and Canada” Jennifer Neptune and Lisa Neuman, in their 2015 article Wabanaki people have been living in Waponahkik since