Wabanaki Marketplace at Shaker Village
2023-08-26 10:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Rd, New Gloucester, ME, 04260, United States
The annual festival of Wabanaki’s finest, award-winning artists is BACK! The Wabanaki Marketplace at Shaker Village provides a rare opportunity to purchase museum-quality crafts directly from Maine’s finest Wabanaki artists, nationally recognized and honored for their role in the preservation of important traditions. A wide selection of crafts are offered for a range of prices from a few dollars to several hundred dollars (cash/personal check accepted by all artists).
BBQ dinner plates will be for sale to the public (while supplies last).
More than 40 members of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac and Maliseet tribes will demonstrate traditional Wabanaki art forms including basketmaking, stone carving, bark etching, beadwork and jewelry. A full list of participating artists to be released soon.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn about and experience first-hand Maine’s Native American culture.
FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS to be announced
1pm- Burnaburnuskek Singers & Drummers
Thank you for your support of this event and for your recognition of important traditions!
Street parking is available.

Common Ground Country Fair
2023-09-22 - 2023-09-24 | MOFGA Fairgrounds, 294 Crosby Brook Road, Unity, Maine
The Common Ground Country Fair will be held at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine on September 22, 23 and 24, 2023. The fairgrounds are open Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. MOFGA’s annual celebration of rural living features 1000-plus exhibitors and speakers, and emphasizes vibrant communities, sustainable living and local economies, while highlighting organic agriculture.

Sarah Sockbeson: An Artist Talk
2023-10-04 17:00 - 18:30 | Hudson Museum, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts , Orono, 04469, United States
Join us for a talk by award winning Wabanaki artist Sarah Sockbeson in the Hudson Museum’s Wabanaki Gallery.
Sarah creates traditional, yet contemporary, brown ash and sweetgrass baskets. She is part of a new generation of basketmakers who’ve pushed the boundaries of Wabanaki cultural art to an exciting new level. With her contemporary and visionary approach, she seeks to not only protect and preserve a precious & culturally important art form, but to break apart stereotypes, to educate, and produce works that represent her own unique perspective as a modern Native artist living in today’s world.
Wednesday, October 4, 5:00pm

CANCELLED - Lecture: White Civilizers, Conspiracy Theories, Ancient Apocalypses, and Q-anon: The Weirdness of Archeology in 2023
2023-10-24 19:00 - 20:30 | ME
We are sorry to announce that this event has been CANCELLED.
White Civilizers, Conspiracy Theories, Ancient Apocalypses, and Q-anon: The Weirdness of Archeology in 2023
A lecture by Kenneth Feder, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Central Connecticut State University
The twenty-first century has been marked by an explosion in the use of archaeology to support claims of a human past very different from what archaeologists ordinarily present. Those claims include a precociously advanced ancient culture of white people, maybe from Atlantis, maybe not, who brought civilization to the benighted people of the Americas. The advanced society, it is said, was wiped out utterly in a natural cataclysm and, therefore, the lack of any archaeological evidence for its existence is perceived as evidence for its existence. If that hurts your head, yeah, me too. Archaeology is claimed to be a closed club of ivory-tower academics who might know the truth but are committed to hiding it. In the weirdest element of popular archaeology resides the notion that at least some archaeological sites are centers of deep-state, demonic activities and vandalism is viewed as a potent strategy to negate the power of this evil. Yikes!
The story told here is entertaining. And terrifying.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.
100 Donald P. Corbett Bldg,
University of Maine, Orono
Free and open to the public
With generous support from the Alton ‘38 and Adelaide Hamm Campus Activity Fund

Day of the Dead 2023
2023-11-01 10:00 - 11:30 | Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
Please join us for our annual celebration of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday that honors departed family, friends, and ancestors.
This event includes a presentation by Eunice Loredo, traditional decoration tutorials, and refreshments. Students may also explore the Hudson Museum’s Pre-Columbian collections.
This event is geared for Middle and High School students and Spanish classes.
Space is limited and reservations are required. For more information or to make a reservation, please call 581-1904 or email um.hudsonmuseum@maine.edu
CLICK HERE to download an event flyer.

Screening and Aftertalk - The River is our Relative
2023-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
Join us Thursday, November 9 at 6:00 pm in the Collins Center for the Arts, for a screening and discussion/Q&A sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center of the Sunlight Media Collective for a free screening of and discussion/Q&A about the new documentary film “This River Is Our Relative.”

This event is part of the 2023-24 MHC Symposium on “Rivers”.

“This River is Our Relative” is a documentary about the Penobscot Nation’s intrinsic kinship connection to and tireless environmental advocacy for the Penobscot River. The story is told through the voices of 24 Penobscot people, who share their experience of historical, physical, and spiritual connection to place; of cultural identity and survival. Their narratives are interwoven with a traditional Wabanaki story about how The People and Glouskap defeated a greedy monster frog, Aklebemu, who was hoarding all the water. This story parallels both historical and present day environmental concerns, and is also the origin story of the Penobscot family Clans. This documentary shows the Penobscot Nation’s dedication to environmental justice and their efforts to minimize pollution, demonstrates the importance of respecting inherent Tribal sovereignty, and celebrates Penobscot peoples’ ongoing river-based cultural traditions.

The Sunlight Media Collective is an organization of Wabanaki and non-Wabanaki media makers working to document and raise awareness about issues affecting Wabanaki people, with a particular emphasis on the frequent intersection between environmental issues and Tribal rights. Sunlight Media Collective’s work facilitates understanding, analysis and historical context, and provides educational opportunities for alliance building, social change, and environmental stewardship.

Wabanaki Winter Market
2023-12-09 09:00 - 15:00 | Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
Visit the Wabanaki Winter Market landing page for updates and artist profiles: https://umtraining.lv-o-wpc-dev.its.maine.edu/hudsonmuseum/wabanaki-winter-market/
A Holiday gathering of Wabanaki artists in New England, featuring Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance weavers who have received national awards and new artists representing the next generation of weavers. Supported in part by grants from the Maine Office of Tourism and the Onion Foundation.

Explore Northeastern Snowshoe Traditions with Bill Mackowski
2024-03-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Hudson Museum, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts , Orono, 04469, United States
Bill is a graduate of the University of Maine where he majored in Wildlife Biology and Ecology and a 2013 Traditional Arts Fellow award winner from the Maine Arts Commission. For the last 35 years he has traveled throughout the Northeast, Northern Canada, Labrador, the Yukon, and the Gaspe documenting indigenous snowshoe traditions. He collected examples of each snowshoe maker’s work, amassing a collection of over 200 pairs. His knowledge and efforts to document the tradition are unparalleled. Bill will bring examples from his collection as well as talk about snowshoes from the Hudson’s holdings.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
4 – 5:30pm
At the Hudson Museum, Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine
Free and open to the public
Download a PDF for this event here.

Archaeology Day 2024
2024-04-04 10:00 - 11:30 | Hudson Museum, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts , Orono, 04469, United States
The Hudson Museum in collaboration with the Anthropology Department will host an in-person Archaeology Day. During their visit to campus, students will have the opportunity to hear from UMaine archaeologists, visit Hudson Museum facilities, and tour archaeology labs and collection areas. In small groups of 25, students will visit four stations: two stations in the Collins Center for the Arts, home to the Hudson Museum and two stations in South Stevens Hall, home to the Anthropology Department. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis, so register early!
Thursday, April 4, 2024
10 – 11:30 am
The program is limited to 200 middle school and high school students in eight groups of 25 students each.
To attend, you must register by emailing Kelly Hoover at kelly.hoover@maine.edu.
Download a copy of the event flyer here.

Jeremy Frey: Woven at the Portland Museum of Art
2024-05-24 - 2024-09-15 | Portland Musum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Don’t miss the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in a fine art museum in the United States. Jeremy Frey: Woven is a groundbreaking exhibition in contemporary and Indigenous art. Featuring more than 50 baskets, made from natural materials like black ash and sweetgrass, Woven presents a comprehensive collection that spans a career of more than two decades. These works are intricate, mesmerizing, and expressive, emphasizing Frey’s prodigious skill and prolific creative output that honors and transforms one of the oldest art forms in the northeast.
Basketry represents a core mode of cultural expression for Passamaquoddy people, whose tribal nation is one of five that form the Wabanaki Confederacy, along with the Penobscot, Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, and Abenaki. Their ancestral territory, called Wabanakik or “Dawnland,” stretches across present-day Canadian maritimes and the northeast United States, including where the Portland Museum of Art sits.

Mag-win’-teg-wak: A Legacy of Penobscot Basketry
2024-05-25 - 2025-01-05 | Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum Street, Rockland, ME, 04841, United States
Mag-win’-teg-wak: A Legacy of Penobscot Basketry is an upcoming exhibition at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, ME. It will highlight the impact of Penobscot basketmaker and tribal advocate Robert S. Anderson (1929-2020) and his lasting archival efforts to preserve Penobscot basketry. Referred to as mag-win’-teg-wak, or “choppy seas” in the Penobscot language, the Shay and Anderson families operated a business on Lincolnville Beach in Maine for almost seventy years and created a marketplace and thriving community for Wabanaki basketmakers. This exhibition traces the rise of the family business, as well as their own basket making practices, and showcases extraordinary examples of styles and traditions of Penobscot basketry from the 1930s to today.
Mag-win’-teg-wak: A Legacy of Penobscot Basketry is drawn from the Hudson Museum’s Robert Anderson and the Leo and Florence Shay Collection and complemented by other private and public loans. This project was guest-curated by Theresa Secord and Sarah Sockbeson with Gretchen F. Faulker, Hudson Museum Director, serving as a Curatorial Advisor.
This exhibition is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Cascade Foundation.

Passages in American Art at the Portland Museum of Art
2024-05-27 - 2024-12-31 | Portland Musum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Passages in American Art is a fundamental reinterpretation of the PMA collection, platforming multiple voices, revealing new ways of looking at some of the museum’s most beloved works of art, and inviting community members to drive the conversation. The project examines the existing collection, and along with recent acquisitions, commissions, and select long-term loans, integrates Atlantic narratives and Indigenous perspectives to expand the story of American art.

Abbe Museum's Dawnland Festival of Arts and Ideas (DFAI)
2024-07-12 - 2024-07-14 | College of the Atlantic (COA), Bar Harbor, ME, 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609, United States
The Abbe Museum is excited to announce the premiere of the Dawnland Festival of Arts and Ideas on July 12-14, 2024, at the College of the Atlantic (COA) in Bar Harbor, Maine.
This multi-day event will feature a Native arts market, public performances, and panel conversations on some of the biggest questions of our time, including Weaving a Sustainable Environment, Savoring Native Food Wisdom, Recognizing Sovereignty as a Stepping Stone to an Enduring Democracy and Arts Transforming Our Futures.
“Native arts and cultures cannot be separated from Native ways of knowing. The Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas continues to celebrate the Native creative economy on Wabanaki homelands while lifting up Indigenous thought leadership vital to the conversation on a healthy planet and society for us all.”
Betsy Richards (Cherokee),
Executive Director & Senior Partner with Wabanaki Nations
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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS/VENDORS
More than 50 leading Native American artists from across the U.S. and Canada will share artwork ranging from ash baskets, beadwork, textiles, painting, fashion, and pottery, representing the breadth and excellence of Indigenous art.
ARTIST PROFILES >>
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PANELISTS
Panel conversations will address some of the biggest questions of our time, including:

Weaving a Sustainable Environment
Savoring Native Food Wisdom
Recognizing Sovereignty as a Stepping Stone to an Enduring Democracy
Arts Transforming Our Futures

Panelists include scientist and author Dr. Suzanne Greenlaw (Maliseet); attorney Corey Hinton (Passamaquoddy); curator and Forge Project Executive Director Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nations); attorney and Brown University visiting professor Honor Keeler (Cherokee Nation); filmmaker, photographer and educator Jared Lank (Mi’kmaq); author, radio host, and former legislator Donna Loring (Penobscot); author and attorney Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot); James Beard Award-winning chef Sherry Pocknett (Wampanoag); anthropologist and scholar Dr. Darren Ranco (Penobscot); James Beard Award-nominated Chef Joe Robbins (Penobscot); Executive Director of Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness Lisa Sockbasin (Passamaquoddy); artist and arts and culture leader Frances Soctomah (Passamaquoddy).
PANELIST PROFILES >>
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PERFORMERS
The Festival will feature concerts by award-winning musicians Firefly the Hybrid (Penobscot) and Jennifer Kreisberg (Tuscarora) as well as performances by Penobscot Nation drum group Burnurwubskek Singers; Eastern Woodlands flutist Hawk Henries (Nipmuc); singer/songwriter JJ Otero (Navajo/Hopi); and storyteller/artist Jennifer Pictou (Mi’kmaq).
PERFORMER PROFILES >>
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The Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas is FREE and open to the public.
This event is supported in part by grants from the Maine Office of Tourism and the Henry Luce Foundation, along with a partnership with College of the Atlantic.

For the latest Festival information, please visit:
DAWNLANDFESTIVAL.ORG

Shaker Village's "Wabanaki Art Market"
2024-08-24 10:00 - 15:30 | Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Rd, New Gloucester, ME, 04260, United States
Saturday, August 24, 2024
10am-3:30pm
On-Site
FREE Admission
An annual festival of Wabanaki’s finest, award-winning artists.
Please check back for our full listing of participants to be announced this Summer.
The Keepers of Traditions
Basket making, stone carving, birch bark etching, woodcarving, doll making, beadwork and jewelry making are among the oldest, enduring, and unique traditions passed down through generations of Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, and Maliseet peoples, known as the Wabanaki, or “People of the Dawn.”
Wabanaki Arts Market
Over 40 of the finest, award-winning artists will participate in the Wabanaki Marketplace for their southernmost gathering in the State of Maine. Don’t miss this special opportunity to appreciate Wabanaki culture firsthand through basket making, bead working, storytelling, drumming, singing, and dancing.
Sustaining Cultural Practices
Purchase museum-quality crafts directly from Wabanaki artists recognized for preserving important cultural traditions. Crafts will be offered at a wide range of price points. It is recommended that shoppers are prepared with cash and/or personal checks since not all artists accept debit/credit cards.

The ever-popular Burnaburnuskek Singers & Drummers will be drumming and singing – 12pm-1pm.

We Make You Welcome
Free admission and free parking. Rain or shine. BBQ dinner plates will be for sale to the public while supplies last.
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village thanks all those who value quality educational and cultural experiences by supporting the Wabanaki Arts Market. Thank you!

Common Ground Country Fair
2024-09-20 - 2024-09-22 | MOFGA Fairgrounds, 294 Crosby Brook Road, Unity, Maine
Come visit the Hudson Museum at the Common Ground Country Fair!
The Fair will be held at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine on September 20, 21, and 22, 2024. MOFGA’s annual celebration of rural living features 1000+ exhibitors and speakers, and emphasizes vibrant communities, sustainable living and local economies, while highlighting organic agriculture.
You will find the Hudson Museum in the Maine Indian Basketmakers’ tent!

Combating Archaeological Pseudoscience through Social Media - a Public Talk by Milo Rossi (Miniminuteman)
2024-10-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
Milo Rossi, Youtuber and UMaine graduate, Class of 22 is one of the most successful popular commentators on archaeology. His Youtube Channel has 1.9 million subscribers and over 27 million views. Milo will present an illustrated lecture on his work, which he began as a UMaine student and developed into his profession.

Tuesday, October 22,
7:00 p.m.
Collins Center for the Arts

Click here to download a flyer for this event.

Day of the Dead Celebration!
2024-11-01 10:00 - 11:30 | Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
Please join us for our annual celebration of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday that honors departed family, friends, and ancestors.
This event includes a presentation by Eunice Loredo, traditional decorations tutorials, and refreshments. Students may also explore the Hudson Museum’s Pre-Columbian collections.
This event is geared for Middle and High School students and Spanish classes.
Space is limited and reservations are required. For more information or to make a reservation, please call 581-1906 or email kelly.hoover@maine.edu
Click here to download an event flyer.

Sugar Skull: A Dia de los Muertos Musical Adventure (School Shows)
2024-11-13 09:30 - 11:00, 2024-11-13 11:45 | Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
SUGAR SKULL! A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure is a touring bilingual/bicultural musical for educators who want to bring students in grades 1-5 to the Collins Center for the Arts for a school show. The show uses traditional regional music and dance from Mexico to tell the story of twelve-year-old Vita Flores. Vita thinks her family has gone loco planning a celebration for deceased loved ones. Why throw a party for the dead? But when a spirited candy skeleton suddenly springs to life, Vita finds herself on a magical, musical journey to unravel the true meaning of Día de Muertos.
Meet Sugar Skull, a charismatic skeleton with a secret or two. With her skeletal new friend, Vita dances with ancient ancestors, sings with a sorrowful sorceress, escapes the trickster Chaneques, and even meets the famous Catrina Calavera. But can this clever youth gather the missing pieces needed for her family ofrenda before it’s too late?
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOW
The Hudson Museum is excited to be able to provide Minsky Field Trip Grants for 10 schools to attend Sugar Skull!
Public schools are eligible for a Minsky Field Trip Grant if they are busing 20 or more students from more than 50 miles from the Collins Center for the Arts. Grants will reimburse up to $150 for travel expenses and/or ticket fees.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR A MINSKY FIELD TRIP GRANT FOR SUGAR SKULL

Wabanaki Winter Market 2024 - 30th Anniversary Event!
2024-12-14 09:00 - 15:00 | ME
The Wabanaki Winter Market at the Collins Center for the Arts (Orono, Maine) is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year! New England’s largest holiday gathering of Wabanaki artists will take place on Saturday, December 14 this year. This annual event features artists who have received national awards, as well as new artists representing the next generation of weavers.
The event provides the public with an opportunity to purchase Wabanaki art directly from the artists and to learn about these ancient traditions.
Join the Hudson Museum from 9am to 3pm on December 14, 2024 for a day that will showcase one-of-a-kind art forms (basketry, beadwork, wood carving, birchbark items), and maple syrup as well as demonstrations, storytelling, traditional music, drumming and dancing. Something for everyone!
The Hudson Museum will be open during the event, and visitors are encouraged to explore the Wabanaki Gallery where they can view the work of the ancestors of the contemporary artists.
The Wabanaki Winter Market is FREE and open to the public. Explore the market at our dedicated market webpage here.
This event is supported in part by grants from Four Directions Development Corporation and the Onion Foundation.

Re-Indigenizing Sacred Landscapes: From the Wigwam at Cetawamkeag
2025-01-25 - 2026-01-04 | Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum Street, Rockland, ME, 04841, United States
Re-Indigenizing Sacred Landscapes: From the Wigwam at Cetawamkeag is an upcoming exhibition at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, ME.
This collection reinstallation project revisits paintings by pioneering artists who ventured to and depicted Maine between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. While the painters captured the region’s stunning landscapes, they often overlooked the Native American communities living there. Guest curated by James Francis, Penobscot Nation’s Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation, Tribal Historian, and Chair of Penobscot Tribal Rights, Donald Soctomah, Tribal historic preservation officer for the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Gretchen Faulkner, Hudson Museum Executive Director, Curatorial Advisor, the exhibition reexamines works in the Farnsworth’s collection.
Image Credits:
Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865)
Pretty Marsh, Mt. Desert Island, ca. 1850
Oil on canvas
10 5/8 x 15 3⁄4 inches
Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. S. Morton Vose, 1960.1168

Yamato Drummers – Hito no Chikara: The Power of Human Strength
2025-01-29 19:00 | Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
This renowned Taiko ensemble returns to the Collins Center for a dazzling night of traditional music from Japan. The sound of 40 different drums combined with intricate ensemble movement and spectacular costumes guarantee an unforgettable experience.

Come to the Hudson Museum before the show (6 – 7pm) and try your hand at origami and other Lunar New Year crafts!

CLICK HERE for tickets and more information about this exciting performance.

Panel Discussion – The Tekαkαpimək Contact Station at Katahdin Woods & Waters
2025-03-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, 107 Norman Smith Hall, University of Maine Campus, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
Tekαkαpimək under construction. Credit: Wright-Ryan Construction
The talk will be held virtually via Zoom ONLY (due to inclement weather).

Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information

Co-sponsors:

Native American Programs/Wabanaki Center, UMaine
Ecology & Environmental Sciences, UMaine

Moderator: Darren Ranco, Chair of Native American Programs; Professor, Anthropology and Mitchell Center, UMaine
Panelists:

Jennifer Neptune, Penobscot Nation
James Francis, Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation, Penobscot Nation
Gabe Frey, Passamaquoddy
Erin Hutton, Erin Hutton Projects

Tekαkαpimək Contact Station is a stunning 7,900 square-foot building and 23-acre site atop Lookout Mountain created to welcome the global public to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. The monument is located within the present and traditional homeland of the Penobscot Nation. The land and waters hold special significance to the Penobscot Nation and is inextricably linked with Penobscot culture, ceremonies, oral traditions, language, history, and Indigenous stewardship which continues the respectful relationship with the land and waterways that has gone back more than 11,000 years. Katahdin is a culturally significant place to the Wabanaki people where connecting watersheds provide important travel routes for Wabanaki people of Maine, comprised of Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Nations.
Tekαkαpimək is a Penobscot language word for “as far as one can see”, pronounced deh gah-gah bee mook. Architectural, landscape and exhibition designs for Tekαkαpimək resulted from a process between Elliotsville Foundation, representatives of the Wabanaki Nations, Saunders Architecture, Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture, WeShouldDoItAll, Tuhura Communications, Erin Hutton Projects, and the National Park Service. The design process began in 2019 and construction was completed in 2024, with regular public hours to be announced after National Park Service assumes ownership and operations for the 2025 visitation season.
Tekαkαpimək’s waysides and exhibits orient visitors to the monument, inspiring them to experience Katahdin Woods and Waters from its peaks, trails, and rivers to its ever-changing foliage, brilliant night sky, and abundant wildlife. Interpretation is through a Wabanaki lens in a contemporary context, honoring the past and showing vibrant communities moving sustainably into the future. All Wabanaki Cultural Knowledge and Intellectual Property shared within this project is owned by the Wabanaki Nations – the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Mi’kmaq Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe, and Penobscot Nation.
Information on the Tekαkαpimək Contact Station provided by Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters
All Wabanaki Cultural Knowledge and Intellectual Property shared within this project is owned by the Wabanaki Nations.

Digital Media Gallery Exhibit Opening: Visions
2025-04-07 15:00 - 16:00 | Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
Join us Monday, April 7th for the opening of the Digital Media Gallery’s inaugural exhibit: Visions. The Gallery is located on the landing outside the Hudson Museum in the Collins Center for the Arts. Opening ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. Refreshments will be served in the Hudson Museum.

Journey Through the Dawnland - 2nd Annual Wabanaki Homelands Scavenger Hunt
2025-05-23 - 2025-09-01 | ME
The Hudson Museum is excited to participate in the second annual Wabanaki Homelands scavenger hunt, Journey Through the Dawnland!
You can get a travel log at any participating location (Including the Hudson Museum!), or print your own! Stamp your travel log at participating destinations throughout what is now called Maine, and learn more about the Wabanaki and their homelands! As you collect stamps and answer questions in your travel log, you can enter to win prizes including stickers, jewelry, and signed books by Wabanaki authors!
To print your own Journey travel log and find the most up-to-date information, visit the Wabanaki Studies Education Facebook page.
Want to share the news? Click here to download a flyer!

Dawnland Festival of Arts and Ideas
2025-07-12 - 2025-07-13 | College of the Atlantic (COA), Bar Harbor, ME, 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609, United States
The Abbe Museum’s Dawnland Festival of Arts and Ideas will return on July 12 & 13, 2025, at the College of the Atlantic (COA) in Bar Harbor, Maine. This unique multi-day event is an evolution of our popular Abbe Museum Indian Market (AMIM) and Native American Festival that featured invitation-only Native arts markets and performances. The Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas includes those elements but also spotlights conversations by Wabanaki and other Indigenous leaders on some of the biggest questions of our time, including climate, democracy, and food systems.

“Native arts and cultures cannot be separated from Native ways of knowing. The Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas continues to celebrate the Native creative economy on Wabanaki homelands while lifting up Indigenous thought leadership vital to the conversation on a healthy planet and society for us all.”
Betsy Richards (Cherokee), Executive Director & Senior Partner with Wabanaki Nations

Shaker Village's Wabanaki Summer Market
2025-08-23 | Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Rd, New Gloucester, ME, 04260, United States
The annual festival of Wabanaki’s finest, award-winning artists is BACK! The Wabanaki Marketplace at Shaker Village provides a rare opportunity to purchase museum-quality crafts directly from Maine’s finest Wabanaki artists, nationally recognized and honored for their role in the preservation of important traditions. A wide selection of crafts are offered for a range of prices from a few dollars to several hundred dollars (cash/personal check accepted by all artists).

2025 Common Ground Country Fair
2025-09-19 - 2025-09-21 | MOFGA Fairgrounds, 294 Crosby Brook Road, Unity, Maine
This 2025 Common Ground Country Fair will be held at the Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine on September 19, 20 and 21, 2025. The fairgrounds are open Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association’s (MOFGA) annual celebration of rural living features 1000-plus exhibitors and speakers, and emphasizes vibrant communities, sustainable living and local economies, while highlighting organic agriculture.

2025 Wabanaki Winter Market
2025-12-13 09:00 - 15:00 | Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
The Wabanaki Winter Market is New England’s largest holiday gathering of Wabanaki artists. This annual event features artists who have received national awards, as well as new artists representing the next generation of weavers.
The event provides the public with an opportunity to purchase Wabanaki art directly from the artists and to learn about these ancient traditions.
Join the Hudson Museum for a day that will showcase one-of-a-kind art forms (basketry, beadwork, wood carving, birchbark items), and maple syrup as well as demonstrations, storytelling, traditional music, drumming and dancing. Something for everyone!
