![]() ![]() She also serves the community as an Executive Board Member for the Vermont Humanities Council, the Coalition for Ethnic Studies and Equity in Schools, and Act 1 Task Force examining education policy and curriculum standards. She is a Museum Educator at the Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian, the Director of the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, and the Founder of the Abenaki Arts & Education Center. Her twined bags, baskets and textiles reside in museums and private collections and can be seen in films and literature. The Eastern Abenaki language was predominantly spoken in Maine, while the Western Abenaki language was spoken in Quebec, Vermont, and New Hampshire. ![]() They are an Algonquian -speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. ![]() For over 25 years, Vera has combined her Indigenous heritage, her knowledge of regional history, and a passion for artistic creation in offering programs for schools and museums. The Abenaki ( Abenaki: Wpnahki) are indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. Vera Longtoe Sheehan is an artist, educator and activist who has lectured and exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. Roger has lectured, performed and done demonstrations at museums, historic sites and schools across the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. He also carves wood burls and makes pre-contact style bone tools, 17th- and 18th-century style knives, war clubs and tomahawks. Roger is also a soapstone pipe maker who gathers Vermont soapstone, carves animal effigy pipe bowls and hand widdles wooden pipe stems. Having spent most of his life researching Woodland Indian history, he takes great joy in sharing it with others. He makes use of all of these talents in Abenaki Living History events. Roger Longtoe Sheehan is a talented Abenaki artist, Native musician and educator. ![]()
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