Archives for Native American Veteran Day

Wabanaki Windows 6/15/10

Producer/Host: Donna Loring

Guest cohost: Maria Girouard, Director, Penobscot Cultural and Historic Preservation Department

Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topic: Native America Veterans

What is the historical context of native involvement in American wars?  How was Penobscot alliance with France established?  (Family bloodlines with French nobility)  How was Public Law, Chapter 51, LD30, “An Act to Establish Native American Veterans’ Day” introduced and passed?

Guest: James E. Francis, Tribal Historian, www.penobscotculture.org