WE WANT VERMONT ABENAKI CHIEF HOMER ST. FRANCIS MAY NOT TRUST THE COURTS. BUT THAT IS THE BATTLEGROUND FOR HIS PEOPLE'S CLAIM THAT THEY NEVER GAVE UP VERMONT OR PARTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW YORK, QUEBEC, AND NORTHERN MASSACHUSETTS. The Boston Globe (12/16/1990)
...license plate on his old pickup truck: "Abenaki Chief Missisquoi Nation." The absence...carries in his truck proclaiming that the Abenaki are a sovereign nation and not subject...will not tolerate any more stopping of Abenaki Aboriginals in the process of fishing...

The "disappearance" of the Abenaki in western Maine: political organization and ethnocentric assumptions. The American Indian Quarterly (3/22/1993)
...surprise to most current scholars of the Abenaki. The works of Gordon Day and Colin Calloway...assumed a tribal organization for the Abenaki with each tribe occupying a river drainage...more accurate and useful understanding of Abenaki political organization and migration ...

AN ABENAKI GATHERS SHARDS OF A SCATTERED HERITAGE.(LIFE & LEISURE) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (2/17/2002)
...Earth, she steps into tradition. An Abenaki, like her father and her uncles who helped...Native America. With fewer than 2,000 Abenaki left in the Northeast, her identity dissolves...to find out who she was. She and three Abenaki women created a monthly meeting called...

HOMER ST. FRANCIS, AT 66; LED REVIVAL OF ABENAKI TRIBE The Boston Globe (7/10/2001)
...Francis, credited with revitalizing the Abenaki Indian nation in Vermont after it had...the St. Francis-Sokoki Band of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi from 1974 to 1980...arrived; today, about 4,000 people claim Abenaki blood. "He put the nation back on the...

Vt. high court rules against tribe Abenaki say rights illegally severed The Boston Globe (6/16/1992)
...s Supreme Court yesterday denied the Abenaki Nation of the Missisquoi the right to...title and unrestricted use of what the Abenaki claimed are their ancestral lands in northwestern...remove any doubt that extinguishment of Abenaki rights was complete by 1791." ...

For Abenaki descendants, an ancestral revival The Boston Globe (5/3/2009)
...the Elnu tribe of southern Vermont, an Abenaki band of about 50 largely family members...The Elnu have studied and reenacted Abenaki life from the 17th century to the Civil...the Abenakis are coming as themselves. Abenaki culture, long thought lost or nonexistent...

JOINT PANEL NAMED TO STUDY ABENAKI CONCERNS IN VERMONT The Boston Globe (11/21/1990)
...educational and economic concerns of Vermont's Abenaki Indians. But state officials and Abenaki Chief Homer St. Francis said the panel...between the people here in Montpelier and the Abenaki nation. Hopefully we can sit down at the table...

Supreme Court rejects Abenaki appeal The Boston Globe (2/23/1993)
...the Vermont Supreme Court denying the Abenaki Indians the right to aboriginal title...Court's decision, which held that the Abenaki do not have any aboriginal rights to any...ready for the funeral yet," countered Abenaki Chief Homer St. Francis. "We have a...

Abenaki debate political future; Members of Quebec- based tribe gather in Colonie to hear from those seeking office.(Capital Region) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (10/21/2007)
...United States. They are members of the Abenaki nation, an indigenous tribe recognized...spot on the tribal council. While many Abenaki live on Odanak, the tribal reservation...become a political thing," Denise Watso, Abenaki off-reservation representative and active...