Indigenous Peoples Day

Today, August 9, is Indigenous Peoples Day. The Endangered Alphabets Project works to support indigenous peoples all round the world, but I must confess that for the first few years of the project I knew nothing about the indigenous peoples living right here around me.

(I was going to write “In my own back yard,” but of course I am in their back yard.)

So today I’m recognizing the Abenaki, the ancestral inhabitants of northern New England and southern Quebec. These carvings say “Abenaki” in the Abenaki language (or more literally “People of the Dawn Lands”) and “We are still here.” Please share.