Kwaï mziwi
(Hello all) and welcome to the Abenaki Foodways Project, an educational resource initiative crafted in collaboration with the W8banaki Nation.
Wliwni (thank you) for your interest in teaching your students about the Abenaki people and culture. This project came about from a unique opportunity to bring Abenaki citizens together with educators, historians, and experts from across Ndakina to create an educational framework based in authentic knowledge about Abenaki people, their tribal sovereignty, history, culture, and more.
Abenaki Speaker Series
Abenaki Foodways Launch Event
Wednesday, January 14th 2026 at 6pm (virtual)
notes On Use
These materials contain W8banakiak knowledge gathered and presented in collaboration with the W8banaki (Abenaki) Nation, its members, and relations. These resources are intended for use in educational settings, at no cost to teachers, and cannot be used for commercial purposes. Please give attribution when using/sharing.
To protect the intellectual and cultural heritage rights of the Abenaki, and in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, no reproductions, adaptations, alterations and/or modifications of the content or design of any materials whatsoever are permitted.
Our guide for educators, which contains the basics about the Abenaki, their culture, and food traditions. Can be gone through solo, or with your students. The guide also has short classroom lessons.
Our lessons, including a wide range of hands-on activities for students grades K-9 and more.
See what is new with the project, gain inspiration from other teachers using the curriculum, and more! Photo by Nickie Sekera for Sunlight Media Collective
Check out our mini-documetary series, our recorded webinars, and more, created for educators to watch in the classroom with their students
Project Partners
Special Thanks To
Évelyne Benedict, Daniel G. Nolett, Luc G. Nolett, Jacques T. Watso, Suzie O’Bomsawin, Samuel Dufour, Michele Durand, Isaak Lachapelle-Gill, Vicky Desfossés-Bégin and everyone at Odanak & W8linak, Jane Hively Barber, Jules Lee, Richard Whiting, Peter Langella, Emily Alger, Sarah Davis, Cliff McCreedy, Jon Allen and the rest of the USBN team, the Musée des Abénakis, Melissa Prescott, the folks at Mahoosuc Land Trust and Telstar Middle School, the team at Connexion Nature and the Mont Saint Hilaire Biosphere Network, Brianne Lolar and the Wabanaki Studies Program, fellow USBN grantee cohort members Noquisi Initiative and Protectores de Cuencas, and the many teachers, students, friends, and allies who made this project possible.
Grant funding for this project was provided through the United States Biosphere Network via the German Commission for UNESCO supported by Henkel AG & Co. KGaA and the Fritz Henkel Foundation.
