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For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. In Maine, the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” in the United States begins a historic investigation. DAWNLAND goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.

“Amidst the echoes of genocide, an unprecedented truth commission attempts to heal the wounds of a foster care system devastating Native American families in DAWNLAND. A documentary about cultural survival and stolen children: inside the first truth and reconciliation commission for Native Americans. “

The Abenaki, also referred to as Wôbanaki or Wôbanaki in some sources, are an Algonquian Indigenous people of the northeastern part of North America, and their name is commonly understood as meaning “people of the dawn land” or “people of the rising sun,” a reference to their ancestral eastern homeland. Today, their most visible communities in Québec are Odanak and Wôlinak, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River near Trois-Rivières; Québec’s government notes that more than 3,705 Abenaki live in Québec, with many others living elsewhere across North America. Their broader ancestral territory, often called Ndakina, spans parts of southern Québec as well as Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, and traditional seasonal movement across this region was shaped by rivers, hunting grounds, fishing sites, and trade routes. Historically, Abenaki life combined farming, hunting, fishing, and gathering, while basketry—especially ash and sweetgrass basket work—became both a cultural practice and an important source of income. The language, Abenaki (Alnôbaodwawôgan), still survives, with some elders speaking it and cultural institutions supporting its revival, while songs, dances, museums, and community organizations help sustain identity and transmit knowledge across generations. In that sense, the Abenaki are not only a historical people of the Northeast but a living nation whose culture remains closely tied to land, river systems, kinship, and resilient community life.

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Dulcet Dulcet is a hand lettered, rough binding script with high ascenders & low-descenders. It is both elegant and grungy and will work wonders on your invitations or love letters, make beautiful posters, frightening t-shirt designs or logotypes. Publisher: Dawnland on Monotype