Tag: Wabanaki

Talk of the Towns 1/9/15

Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Community concerns and opportunities

Program Topic: The Abbe Museum—Bridging Wabanaki and White People and Cultures

Key Discussion Points:
• What were the origins of the Abbe and what is it’s current mission?
• Big step to create its downtown location… what is the relationship between the museum in Acadia and the downtown museum?
• What were the potentials you saw when you came… what continues to excite you?
• How has the role of the Abbe to bridge “white” and Wabanaki people and cultures evolved, perhaps using Twisted Path as an example?
• What is the role of “museum educator”? What do you enjoy about your work in schools, or when school and other groups visit the Abbe?
• George brings so much to his role… what are some of the obvious and not-so-obvious contributions from your Passamaquoddy/Wabanaki culture, your education?
• How do you see the Abbe helping to bridge Wabanaki and “white” people and cultures?
• One of the planks in that bridge might be basket-making… talk about the art and artistry of basketmaking in Wabanaki culture… historical and current context
• Describe the role of the museum to help “build community” in Bar Harbor, and Mount Desert Island… what do you do to foster those connections, to build community capacity?
• Talk about the new exhibit inspired by the women of Indian Township and the effects of
substance abuse on the community… what questions would you like visitors to ponder?
• What else should we look for at the Abbe in coming months? What are some of the other staff working on?
• How has your affiliation with the Smithsonian affected your programming and recognition?

Guests:
Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, President, Abbe Museum
George Neptune, Museum Educator, Abbe Museum

Wabanaki Windows 4/15/14

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Joel Mann

Issue: Wabanaki /State TRC Progress

Program Topic: TRC REACH and The Commission

Key Discussion Points:
a) What is REACH/Meaning of the word
b) The Commission and the experience of being a TRC Commissioner
c) What lessons can were learned from this

Guests:
Esther Attean, Passamaquoddy Tribal member/ staff member of Muskie Institute USM and REACH
Maria Girouard, Penobscot Tribal/Council member and REACH Wellness Coordinator
Mathew Dunlap/ Secretary of State of Maine/Commission member

RadioActive 3/27/14

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Program Topic: Tour to raise federal minimum wage to $10.10; Wabanaki Tribes continuing struggle to maintain sovereignty and fishing rights

Key Discussion Points:
a) We look at the movement to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. A bus tour promoting the passage of the Fair Minimum Wage Act stopped in Bangor. Miguel’s Mexican Restaurant of Bangor has just raised their minimum wage to $10.10.
b) We speak with Maine Congressional Representative and gubernatorial candidate, Mike Michaud about the minimum wage and the realities for low income Mainers
c) Passamquoddy tribal member, Vera Francis speaks on state opposition to tribal sovereignty and fishing rights,
specifically around the elver fishery. After long negotiations to come to an agreement that involved recognizing that tribal elver regulations were protective of the fishery and allowed tribal autonomy, Maine’s State Attorney General shut down the process in the 11th hour. The Passamquoddy Tribes own management plan puts a limit on total tribal catch, but allows anyone in the tribe to fish. They argue that this management system is more protective then the state’s permit system.

Guests:
Congressman Mike Michaud
Laura Fortman, US Dept of Labor
Sean Garceau , manager at Miguel’s Mexican Restaurant, Bangor
Rev. Becky Gunn, Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor
Vera Francis, Passamaquoddy tribal member, Passamaquoddy Fisheries Committee

RadioActive 3/20/14

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Issue: Environmental and Social Justice

Program Topic: Coalition of Immokalee Workers Movement at Wendy’s Headquarters and Ellsworth Solidarity Action; Tribal Scholars Event on Wabanaki Self Determination

Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
a) This month, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers completed a 10 day “Now is the Time” bus tour, calling on the Wendy’s fast food chain, and regional supermarket chain Publix, to join the Fair Food Program. 12 other retailers have already done so, committing them to pay farmworkers a penny per pound more for Florida’s winter tomatoes and to buy from growers adhering to a fair labor code of conduct. We join the tour at Wendy’s Headquarters in Ohio.
b) A solidarity action was held at the Wendy’s restaurant in Ellsworth on Saturday.
c) Last night, three Wabanaki scholars spoke at Sipayik on the history and implications of settler treaties with the Wabanaki tribes, the Maien Indian Claims Settlement Act and current fisheries issues. It was the fist of a two day series titled “Wabanaki Self Determination: Earth Treaties to Settlement Acts and Beyond”. The second evening will be at the University of Maine at Orono this evening.

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Lupe Gonzalo, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
B) Cruz Salucio, Coalition of Immoklaee Workers
C) demonstrators at March 8th march on Wendy’s headquarters in Ohio
D) demonstrators at March 15th vigil at Wendy’s in Ellsworth, ME
E) Gail Dana-Sacco, PhD, MPH, Passamaquoddy tribal member, www.mitsc.org

WERU News Report 5/4/11

Producer/Host: Meaghan LaSala

A full half hour report on the Mother Earth Water Walk. Starting in Machias this Saturday, May 7th, a group of native people and their supporters will begin a walk of over 4 million steps to Bad River, Wisconsin, carrying water from the Atlantic Ocean. Walkers are heading to Lake Superior from 4 directions of the continent, carrying water from the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico and the Hudson to call attention to the crises facing fresh water, a life source for all species. We speak with coordinating organizers for the Eastern Walk, Madeleine Huntjens and Kehben Grier about the walk and how listeners can get involved.

Madeleine Huntjens, coordinating organizer of the Eastern direction Mother Earth Water Walk
Kehben Grier, of the Beehive Design Collective in Machias, coordinating organizer
http://www.motherearthwaterwalk.com/
http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/front.htm
http://www.emptyglassforwater.ca/home.php

Indigenous Voices 10/21/08

Producer/Host: Rhonda Frey

Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topic: The Historical and Current Relationship of the Wabanaki and French People

Who is the Baron of Castine? What kind of relationship did the Penobscot have with the French? Who is Charles Norman Shay?

Guests:

French Consulate General Francois Gauthier; James Eric Francis, Penobscot Nation Tribal Historian; Charles Norman Shay, Penobscot Tribal Elder and Veteran; Todd Nelson, Principal, Adams School in Castine