WINTER 2015
  • Begin Indigenous Peoples Day related meetings   
  • Create IPD brochure, publicity
  • Support State effort to adopt IPD  
  • Focus on adoption of IPD by Town of Brunswick

FALL 2016
  • Kickoff event:  “Moving from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day” 

SUMMER 2017
  • We get our name “Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group”
  • Hawk Henries, Native Flute Concert, co-sponsored by Curtis Memorial  Library and Harpswell Heritage Land trust
  • Film Series, UUCB                                             
    • June 28:  “Wabanaki:  A New Dawn” 
    • July 26:  “The Penobscot:  Ancestral River, Contested Territory” 
    • Aug 16:  “The Passamaquoddy:  A People Reborn”  

FALL 2017
  • IPD approved by Brunswick Town Council September 20 , 2017
  • Events in celebration of Brunswick’s 1st Indigenous Peoples Day created by and/or supported by MIAG:
  • Judy Dow, Abenaki educator, “Modern Narratives of Sustainability and Indigenous Communities,” sponsored by Gedakina and Curtis Memorial Library 
  • Judy Dow, “Maps as Stories,”  Sponsored by Gedakina and Curtis Memorial Library
  • Film Screening “Invisible,” sponsored by Curtis Memorial Library
  • Intergenerational Worship Service, Honoring Indigenous Peoples Day, at Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick
  • Children’s Celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, sponsored by Andrew Lardie and Curtis Memorial Library
  • Indigenous Peoples Day Film and Food Night, sponsored by MIAG
  • Basket Weaving with Jennifer Neptune, sponsored by Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group and Harpswell Heritage Land Trust
  • "Penobscot:  A Sense of Place", with James Francis, Penobscot Historian, and Jennifer Neptune, sponsored by MIAG and Curtis Memorial Library
  • Community Discussion  Reading Group:  Dawnland Voices, at Curtis Memorial Library
  • Film “Neither Wolf nor Dog,” at Frontier Café, MIAG provides publicity and discussion

SPRING-SUMMER 2018
  • Community Discussion Reading Group:  Our Beloved Kin:  A New History of King Philips War, by Lisa Brooks.  August 26 on-site session at Colonial Pemaquid Historical Site, all other sessions at Curtis Memorial Library
  • “Penobscot Nation and the Penobscot River Lawsuit: A Case of Cultural Identity and Tribal Stewardship,” at UUCB
  • “Restoring Three Sisters Garden, Restoration of Indigenous Agriculture on the Sandy River,” presented by Gedakina at Curtis Memorial Library 
  • Our Beloved Kin:  A New History of King Philips War, presentation by author Lisa Brooks  at Curtis Memorial Library 
  • Hawk Henries, Summer Solstice Native Flute Concerts:  MIAG sponsored events at Old Meeting House, Yarmouth and UUCB, Hermit Island sponsored event at Hermit Island   

FALL 2018    
  • “Food Sovereignty and Native America:  A Presentation of Indigenous Foodways,” Rachel Sayet, Mohegan, at UUCB 
  • Indigenous Peoples Day related events
  • “Dawnland,” a documentary about cultural survival and stolen children, shown at Curtis Memorial Library
  • Second Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Childrens Event:  Storytelling and Art with Mihku Paul, Malecite, at Curtis Memorial Library
  • Second Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Food and Film Night:  Film “American Outrage”with Chris Sewell and Mary, at UUCB
  • “Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act: Penobscot Perspectives,” presented by Maria Girouard, Penobscot Historian, at Curtis Memorial Library
  • Community Discussion Reading Group, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Kimmerer, Potawatomi, at Curtis Memorial Library
  • Our Beloved Kin:   A New History of King Philips War, talk by author Lisa Brooks, sponsored by Bowdoin College Multicultural Center, American Heritage month.  Bookstore talk and discussion, co-sponsored by Gulf of Maine Books and MIAG 
 
Winter-Summer 2019
  • Community Discussion Reading Group: “Rights of Nature” by David Boyd
  • Community Discussion Reading Group: “ Ceremony is Life Itself” by gksidtanamoogk
  • Community Meetings: Revisioning MIAG- Mapping out proposed  6 month focus for interest and energy
  • Began process of creating a calendar for local and regional indigenous awareness events
  • Organized field trip and follow up discussion for “ Holding up the Sky” , Wabanaki Exhibit at Maine Historical Society
  • Began process of solidifying MIAG organizational structure ( developing website, e mail , etc)

Fall 2019
  • Website (www.miag-group.org) activated
  • Calendar for local and regional indigenous awareness events published regularly on website, FB, google calendar and via e mail
  • Community Discussion Reading Group: “ Upriver Passamaquoddy” by Alan Sockabasin
  • Community Discussion Reading Group: “ Changes in the Land” by William Cronin
  • Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration in Brunswick ( 3rd annual for Brunswick, 1stannual for Maine): Childrens Storytellng and Art with Mihku Paul; Evening Celebration and Potluck featuring Mawita’nej’ Youth Group singers, Mihku Paul, Ron Nicholas Siviski and Passamaquoddy Language Group Singers.

Winter 2020
  • Field Trip  to see “ Wiwanikan: The Beauty we Carry” : Contemporary Wabanaki Art exhibit at Colby Museum of Art
  • Community Discussion Reading Group: “ Neither Wolf nor Dog”