Abenaki Online

Abenaki Online is a free, community-supported language reclamation repository. This work is offered freely to all Abenaki people, regardless of card or country, and is open to all. If this work matters to you, please consider joining our synchronous and asynchronous learning community to help grow, strengthen, and sustain Abenaki language reclamation.

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Spend a summer at the Middlebury Language School of Abenaki and you’ll experience the single most effective method for rapid language acquisition: a total immersion environment with the Language Pledge®—a promise to read, write, listen, and speak Abenaki. No experience required.

Free to all Abenaki people, but space is limited.

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Featured Videos

Dawn Land: Abenaki Creation Story

From the graphic novel adaptation of Dawn Land by Joseph Bruchac.

120 High Frequency Phrases

The perfect place to begin—and return to—on your language journey. Just press play to hear all 120 clips from first-language speakers sharing these essential phrases. [ Phrase Index ]

Abenaki Language Oral Proficiency Interview

An inspiring OPI with Atianis Waterman and Jesse Bowman Bruchac—showing a goal we can all strive for and achieve on our journey of language reclamation.

Saints and Strangers

Exclusive clip from a special Abenaki Online Class facilitated by Jesse Bowman Bruchac, featuring behind-the-scenes footage of walking through Cape Town and rehearsing Abenaki dialogue for the TV mini-series Saints and Strangers, as well as the final scene with Tatanka Means and Kalani Queypo.

MinCourse Song

Recorded live at the Middlebury School of Abenaki, summer 2023.

The Seven Thunders of Pitawbagok (Lake Champlain)

From the graphic novel adaptation of Dawn Land by Joseph Bruchac.

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