Winter Center For Indigenous Traditions

Education Project: Programs have increased in colleges, universities, local towns, and community organizations. We also continue to advise numerous Native and non-Native individuals, families, and communities, and lcoal, state, and federal agencies on a variety of Indigenous historical, cultural, and other other topics and issues.

Elders, Youth, and Families Project: We help elders with health issues to survive, to heal the wounds of major traumas, and to preserve oral tradtiions, to document sacred and traditional sites, and to protect our shared environment. We also link our elders and interested youth to preserve and pass on our ancient traditions as well as to help our young people survive and guide them into lives grounded in our ancient traditions and languages

Site Protection Project: Preservation work continues to expand for many sites, unique plant and tree communities, and sacred sites including brown ash tree stands nut tree orchards, and herbal medicine and wild food sources. We are also teaching Indigenous stewardship skills to our youth as well as to public and private institutions and communities

Environmental Justice Project - we continue our work with Indigenous communities and local and regional conservation organizations to protect threatened ecologies, undertand and work to eliminate pollution in fish populations, and reduce the effects of wind power, hydro electric dams, power line projects and other development.

Burial Protection & Repatriation Project: Repatriation of Native remains, grave goods, and scared items continues as well as the monitoring of many burial grounds and sacred sites, and guiding institutions in repatriations. We are collaborating closely with a coalition of elders and communities to protect burial grounds, sacred and traditional sites, and ecologically sensitve areas.

Health Project: The health work continues as many Abenaki and other Native elders and families are having immediate health crises, long term care, and end-of-life assistance. Long-term care also continues for victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence, veterans, and their families, and many others suffering from historical traumas and PTSD. Work continues to improve policies and care and maintain traditions.

Awighiganal Publishing Project - continues to support the Archive, Library, and Research Center book and resource publishing effort. Editing and guiding publication of a number of articles, books, teaching guides, and other resources continues.

Language Project - Helping Abenaki youth and families to increase the daily use of Abenaki language in our communities continues including collaborations, creating more teaching materials, facitlitating long-term apprenticeships, as well as language teaching gatherings. Language resource writing and sharing continues as well.