Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024
Virtual teaching resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The Hudson Museum has a variety of Wabanaki cultural items in our collection. Explore the Hudson Museum’s Wabanaki Thematic Exploration at this link.
For fun, interactive activities to help learn more about Wabanaki culture and history, click here to see how you can play Waltes, a traditional game played by the Passamaquody, Penobscot, Maliseet, and Mi’kmaq. You can also learn more about traditional Wabanaki artforms! Click here for more information on how to construct a paper version of a Birchbark Container or Click here to learn how to make a woven bookmark.
Book Suggestions can be found at this link.
And additional resources outside of the Hudson Museum are:
Events in Maine you can attend to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day
INDIGENOUS 2024
(Coordinated by Firefly The Hybrid, Abbe Museum, College of the Atlantic, Friends of Acadia, Healthy Acadia, The Jackson Laboratory, and YWCA MDI)
Experience 1: Strengthening Relationships with Cultural Competency: Increasing Understanding of the Passamaquoddy Tribe with Elizabeth Neptune (Saturday, 10/6 @ 1-5pm)
Experience 2: Our Bodies Carry our Personal Stories and the Stories of Our Ancestors: Reconciling the Harmful Effects of Historical Trauma While Focusing on our Individual Healing Journeys with Donna Decontie-Brown (Wednesday, 10/9 @ 4:30-6pm)
Experience 3: Film Screening of “We Are The Warriors” (Thursday, 10/10 @ 6pm)
Experience 4: Firefly with Special Guest Performers (Saturday, 10/12 @ 7:30pm)
Experience 5: Free Admission to the Abbe Museum (Monday, 10/14 @ 10am-5pm)
Experience 6: Sacred Medicine Printmaking Workshop (Monday, 10/14 @ 1-3pm)
Click here for Indigenous 2024 Event List, Details, and Registration
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Potluck Celebration and Open Dialogue
Monday, October 14, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
The Wilson Center, The University of Maine
67 College Avenue, Orono, ME
Click here for Indigenous Peoples’ Day Potluck Celebration and Open Dialogue Event Details