Thank you for your interest in deepening your engagement with Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group. We encourage you to explore our upcoming events and educational resources. Please also consider joining our Reading Group or Treaty Research Group. If you'd like to volunteer, please email us!
We also encourage you to support the Wabanaki Alliance and sign their petition!
Please also sign onto this Petition to Harvard, organized by the The Association on American Indian Affairs, to release the over 6,586 Native American Ancestors still siting in boxes atHarvard University and its Peabody Museum.https://indianaffairs.z2systems.com/np/clients/indianaffairs/viewOnlineEmail.jsp?emailId=212df85115a17825c10e01a82af2146d2m176715212
If you have European ancestry and are white and/or multiracial, you might consider taking the course Before We Were White: Ancestral Recovery for Collective Liberation. https://whiteawake.org/before-registration-2021/
If you have the means, we encourage you to donate to any of the following organizations:
-Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi https://www.abenakination.com/donations/1395/
"All donations go directly to making a difference for our community. We are a non-profit organization that is run by donations and grants. We are actively involved in feeding the community. Some of the other services we offer are scholarships towards further education, children's Christmas parties and much more. Please indicate in the comments section of where you would like the donation to go. We are awarding a scholarship in 2021! Our food shelf is open Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 9-4."
-Indigenous Women of Wabanaki Territories:
https://iwwt.ca (donation link at bottom of homepage)
-Wabanaki Health and Wellness: http://www.wabanakihw.org (donation button on home page)
-Wabanaki Women's Coalition (all 5 of the Wabanaki Domestic and Sexual Violence Advocacy Centers are member programs): https://www.wabanakiwomenscoalition.org/donate/
-Wicuhkemtultine Kinship Community and Learning Center:
https://spiret.org/land-peace-foundation-donation/
-Maine Wabanaki-REACH: http://www.mainewabanakireach.org/donate
-Sunlight Media Collective:
http://sunlightmediacollective.org/index.php/donate
-Nibezun:
https://nibezun.org
-Eastern Woodlands Rematriation:
https://whyhunger.org/ewrematriation/
The following organizations were suggested by our Wabanaki friends as needing support, but do not have a set up for online donations. These are respected organizations that could use your support if they speak to you.
-The Elder's Garden
Write checks to the Penobscot Nation Housing Department, ATTN: Elder's Garden, 12 Wabanaki Way, Indian Island, ME 04468
-The People's Garden
Write checks c/o Maria Girouard, 11 West Street, Indian Island, ME 04468
-Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township Food Pantry
Write checks c/o Janet Lola, PO Box 301, Princeton, ME 04668
-Aroostook Band of Micmacs Food Pantry
Write checks to: Aroostook Band of Micmacs, 7 Northern Rd. Presque Isle, ME 04769
-Houlton Band of Maliseets Food Pantry
Write Checks to Houlton Band of Maliseets Food Pantry, 88 Bell Road, Littleton, ME 04730
-Penobscot Nation Food Pantry
Send checks to 12 Wabanaki Way, Indian Island, ME 04468
-Wabanaki Public Health:
Write checks to Wabanaki Public Health, 157 Park Street, Suite #26 Bangor, ME 04401
Please also sign onto this Petition to Harvard, organized by the The Association on American Indian Affairs, to release the over 6,586 Native American Ancestors still siting in boxes atHarvard University and its Peabody Museum.https://indianaffairs.z2systems.com/np/clients/indianaffairs/viewOnlineEmail.jsp?emailId=212df85115a17825c10e01a82af2146d2m176715212
If you have European ancestry and are white and/or multiracial, you might consider taking the course Before We Were White: Ancestral Recovery for Collective Liberation. https://whiteawake.org/before-registration-2021/
If you have the means, we encourage you to donate to any of the following organizations:
-Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi https://www.abenakination.com/donations/1395/
"All donations go directly to making a difference for our community. We are a non-profit organization that is run by donations and grants. We are actively involved in feeding the community. Some of the other services we offer are scholarships towards further education, children's Christmas parties and much more. Please indicate in the comments section of where you would like the donation to go. We are awarding a scholarship in 2021! Our food shelf is open Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 9-4."
-Indigenous Women of Wabanaki Territories:
https://iwwt.ca (donation link at bottom of homepage)
-Wabanaki Health and Wellness: http://www.wabanakihw.org (donation button on home page)
-Wabanaki Women's Coalition (all 5 of the Wabanaki Domestic and Sexual Violence Advocacy Centers are member programs): https://www.wabanakiwomenscoalition.org/donate/
-Wicuhkemtultine Kinship Community and Learning Center:
https://spiret.org/land-peace-foundation-donation/
-Maine Wabanaki-REACH: http://www.mainewabanakireach.org/donate
-Sunlight Media Collective:
http://sunlightmediacollective.org/index.php/donate
-Nibezun:
https://nibezun.org
-Eastern Woodlands Rematriation:
https://whyhunger.org/ewrematriation/
The following organizations were suggested by our Wabanaki friends as needing support, but do not have a set up for online donations. These are respected organizations that could use your support if they speak to you.
-The Elder's Garden
Write checks to the Penobscot Nation Housing Department, ATTN: Elder's Garden, 12 Wabanaki Way, Indian Island, ME 04468
-The People's Garden
Write checks c/o Maria Girouard, 11 West Street, Indian Island, ME 04468
-Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township Food Pantry
Write checks c/o Janet Lola, PO Box 301, Princeton, ME 04668
-Aroostook Band of Micmacs Food Pantry
Write checks to: Aroostook Band of Micmacs, 7 Northern Rd. Presque Isle, ME 04769
-Houlton Band of Maliseets Food Pantry
Write Checks to Houlton Band of Maliseets Food Pantry, 88 Bell Road, Littleton, ME 04730
-Penobscot Nation Food Pantry
Send checks to 12 Wabanaki Way, Indian Island, ME 04468
-Wabanaki Public Health:
Write checks to Wabanaki Public Health, 157 Park Street, Suite #26 Bangor, ME 04401
