ONLINE Indigenous Stories

ONLINE Indigenous Stories:
An Evening of Northeast Woodlands Native American Stories for Grown-Ups!
Wednesday October 7
7 – 8:30 PM
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Our Indigenous Stories series will resume online with a Native American storytelling performance with Anne Jennison!

Registration is required. The Zoom link will be sent the week of the event. Register now!

Anne Jennison has been telling Native American lesson stories for more than 30 years – at powwows, museums, libraries, colleges, festivals, and historical societies, etc. Over the years, Anne has also had the opportunity to hear – and thereby learn from – such masterful Native American storytellers as: Wolf Song, Medicine Story, Peter Brodeur, Joseph Bruchac, Jesse Bruchac, Dovie Thomason, Johnny Moses, Hears Crow, John Bear Mitchell, Angela Klingler, Willow Greene, and Kevin Locke.

Anne’s Native American storytelling performances mostly draw from Abenaki and other Northeast Woodlands traditions – and always begin with a greeting song or friendship song, accompanied by her rattle or frame drum. This creates a sense of community in which the stories may be told. Then Anne shares a few Abenaki storytelling traditions to place the stories in cultural context – and to teach listeners how to participate in the storytelling through the use of a call-and-response phrase.

After that, listeners will be taken on a spell-binding and entertaining journey through a series of traditional Native American stories that explain everything from “How Tabaldak Made the First Alnobak” to “How Cold, Hunger, and Loneliness Ended" to “How Gluscabe Went Hunting” to “The Doll With No Face,” “How Turtle Flew South," and “How Hummingbird Put the Stars in the Sky.” Each story has a compelling narrative, but also some subtle – and some not so subtle – life lessons!

Prepare for an interactive storytelling experience filled with humor, drama, and moments of wonder! Anne is available after her performance to answer questions from the audience.