Producer's note: We are releasing the audio edition of one panel of the conference TRN Podcast host Nick Estes helped organize. You can watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. We had some technical difficulties at the beginning of this panel so the recording start shortly after Nick began his introduction. Our apologies!

Symposium Introduction & Framing - Self-indigenization as a Global Problem: Towards Institutional Verification Procedures

Panel 3: Odanak Abenaki Tribal Council on Self-Indigenization in Vermont
 

Moderator: Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe), Associate Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota

Panelists:

• Daniel G. Nolett (Abenaki of Odanak), Executive Director, Odanak Abenaki Tribal Council, "Overview of Abenaki History and Families" 

• Jacques T. Watso (Abenaki of Odanak), Elected Councillor, Abenaki Abenaki Tribal Council, "Origins of Vermont 'Abenaki' State Recognition"

• Tim de la Bruere (Abenaki of Odanak), Vermont Resident, "A Vermont View of the Fake Abenaki Tribes"

• Suzie O'Bomsawin (Abenaki of Odanak), Assistant Executive Director, Odanak Abenaki Tribal Council, "Recent Abenaki Political and Legal Strategies"

• Darryl Leroux, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, "The Harms of Academic Pretendians: Analyzing Lisa Brooks' Work Legitimizing the Fake Abenaki"

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