Wabanaki REACH

Wabanaki REACH Wabanaki REACH (Restoration Engagement Advocacy Change Healing) promotes truth, healing, and change in Maine and Wabanaki communities.

Vision
We envision a future when Maine and Wabanaki people join together to acknowledge truth and work collectively toward equity, healing, and positive change. We aspire to restore right relations, responsibility, compassion, love, reciprocity, abundance, and joy. Mission
We support the self-determination of Wabanaki people through education, truth-telling, restorative justice, and restorative pr

actices in Wabanaki and Maine communities. We design our structures and processes to be responsive to Wabanaki communities and beneficial to Wabanaki people. Values
We believe in the natural strength and beauty of Wabanaki culture, language and ways of being. We believe in the power of Wabanaki people learning the truth about history and reclaiming traditional healing practices. We honor and promote Wabanaki values of taking care of one another, of being grateful, joyful, loving and forgiving.

09/01/2026

🪶 Please join us TODAY September 1st for Dawnland Signals: episode 8 on WERU 89.9 FM or weru.org - every first Tuesday of the month at 4:00 PM 🪶

Tune into to listen to hosts Nick Bear and Nolan Altvater talk with Charlene Huerth, Penobscot citizen, Nibezun Co-Director, Jazz Thompson-Tintor, Penobscot citizen, Nibezun Program Coordinator and Co-owner of Katahdin Kitchen, &
Seneca Love, Penobscot citizen, Nibezun Program Coordinator.

Listen as they have a conversation about: The importance of food as connection to the land and our wellbeing, the critical task of language revitalization and Wabanaki life ways, and the importance of community and kindness. Be sure to listen for details about Nibezun’s 10th anniversary celebration and pow wow on September 19 2026!

Dawnland Signals is a monthly radio talk show that holds space for critical conversations of Truth, Healing, and Change in the Dawnland. Dawnland Signals is a partnership between Wabanaki REACH and WERU FM and highlights Indigenous topics not immediately represented in mainstream media. The show features guests involved in various aspects of truth, healing, and change work in an effort to share, inspire, and inform. The Dawnland Signals team consists of co-hosts Nolan Altvater and Nick Bear, technician Scarlett Tudor and producer Esther Anne.

Access the archive of episodes online at the link in our bio or https://archives.weru.org/category/dawnland-signals/
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nibezun
Jasmine Thompson-Tintor
Seneca Love
Charlene Paul Huerth
nolan altvater
Nick Bear

Attention listeners of Dawnland Signals, we need your help! Please let us know what you enjoy about our monthly public a...
08/21/2026

Attention listeners of Dawnland Signals, we need your help!
Please let us know what you enjoy about our monthly public affairs talk show on WERU-FM.
We appreciate hearing from you, so please comment with a sentence, a few words, or an adjective; react with thumbs up or a heart emoji to let us know how we are doing. Kci woliwon, great thanks!
Access all the shows here: https://archives.weru.org/category/dawnland-signals/

🪶 Episode 7 of Dawnland Signals is now available to stream online! Listen to our discussion with guests Jennifer Galipe...
08/19/2026

🪶 Episode 7 of Dawnland Signals is now available to stream online!

Listen to our discussion with guests Jennifer Galipeau, Penobscot citizen, and Wambli Martinez, Oglala Lakotah and Mescalero Apache citizen, talk about Wabanaki Youth in Science (WaYS) and the ancestral trail crew - a wonderful conversation you don’t want to miss!

Dawnland Signals is a monthly radio talk show that holds space for critical conversations of Truth, Healing, and Change in the Dawnland. Dawnland Signals is a partnership between Wabanaki REACH and WERU FM and highlights Indigenous topics not immediately represented in mainstream media. The show features guests involved in various aspects of truth, healing, and change work in an effort to share, inspire, and inform. The Dawnland Signals team consists of co-hosts Nolan Altvater and Nick Bear, technician Scarlett Tudor and producer Esther Anne.

https://archives.weru.org/dawnland-signals/2026/08/dawnland-signals-8-4-26-august-ways-and-ancestral-trail-crew/

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We loved seeing everyone in these cutouts at community days in Sipayik earlier this month & Mi'kmaq Mawiomi this past we...
08/18/2026

We loved seeing everyone in these cutouts at community days in Sipayik earlier this month & Mi'kmaq Mawiomi this past weekend! We are getting so excited for Bear Grease in November - have you bought your tickets yet?

Bear Grease Live | presented by Lightning Cloud & Wabanaki REACH
Tuesday, November 17th, 2026 7 pm | Collins Center for the Arts, Orono ME.

"Bear Grease reimagines the iconic 1971 musical Grease through a bold and comedic native lens. This all-Indigenous musical parody infuses hip-hop and comedy into a pow wow-powered love story that's equal parts hilarious homage and cultural celebration."

It is our joy to provide this unique opportunity for Wabanaki and Mainers alike to witness mainstream art being decolonized in a way that brings people together in song, dance and laughter. We hope you will join us!

✨Tickets are now available through the Collins Center website: https://www.collinscenterforthearts.com/event/bear-grease/. ✨

We will also be offering a community theatre workshop the next day on November 18th for Wabanaki community members. Wabanaki community member registration for workshop & tickets: https://forms.gle/gMwkKCzMSXvGEGi58

To support Wabanaki attendees, donate here: www.wabanakireach.org/donate
*The performance and workshop are appropriate for ages 7th grade & up*

REACH is now hiring an Administrative Assistant! We are looking for an organized and hardworking individual with experie...
08/13/2026

REACH is now hiring an Administrative Assistant! We are looking for an organized and hardworking individual with experience working in Wabanaki community to join our team.

The Wabanaki REACH Administrative Assistant provides office support to maintain the organization’s daily operations and ensures the smooth functioning. The AA organizes and updates information. Primary functions include managing schedules, organizing meetings, handling communications activities, maintaining records, and ensuring efficient office procedures. This role plays a crucial part in the smooth functioning of Wabanaki REACH, contributing significantly to the team’s overall success and mission fulfillment.

Must have transportation & live near our offices in Old Town.

To apply: email your resume & cover letter to
[email protected]

https://www.wabanakireach.org/employment

Blog: Voices of DecolonizationThis month's blog post is a repost of the article, "Niweskok is Bringing the Land Back", b...
08/12/2026

Blog: Voices of Decolonization

This month's blog post is a repost of the article, "Niweskok is Bringing the Land Back", by Carolyn Zachary in the Midcoast Villager about Niweskok, a non profit organization envisioned and brought to fruition by Alivia Moore, former REACH board member and Penobscot Nation citizen. We are happy to join in the celebration of rematriation in Wabanakik!

“As recently as 400 years ago, Wabanaki people would routinely canoe roughly 9 miles down what is now called the Goose River from their fields and forests along its banks to its estuary, joining the Passagassawakeag River and ultimately widening into Penobscot Bay. There they would have raked clams, gathered mussels and oysters, and fished, too. During the British colonization of their territory, when their people were killed or driven north into the woods, the Wabanaki — Penobscots around the Midcoast's bay area — lost their connection to the coastal lands and waters that had been their home and food source since their ancestors arrived there thousands of years earlier...”

Continue reading: https://www.midcoastvillager.com/news/niweskok-is-bringing-the-land-back/article_3e398228-c79b-4827-8dcf-d19462046a57.html

08/10/2026

Our newest truth-telling initiative goes Beyond the Claims to get at the heart of the land, its people, and their stories. By gathering personal oral histories across a full spectrum of experiences we hope to demystify the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, humanize those who have been affected by it, amplify their voices, and preserve their stories for cultural continuity.

Our next storyteller highlight of our Beyond the Claims reel series is Tim Love, Interviewed in 2022 by Kate Russel. Woliwon Tim for sharing your story.

The beyond the Claims Archive can be found online at the link in our bio or https://archivesspace.bowdoin.edu/repositories/2/resources/1783

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We launched a merchandise site with bonfire, a website that works with nonprofits to provide donations from merchandise ...
08/06/2026

We launched a merchandise site with bonfire, a website that works with nonprofits to provide donations from merchandise sales! The profit from each item that is ordered goes directly to us as a donation. Items are made to order by Bonfire and drop-shipped so there is no surplus merchandise.

Support us here:
https://www.bonfire.com/store/maine-wabanaki-reach/

08/06/2026

We had so much fun with these cutouts this weekend during Community Days on Indian Island. The excitement is high for this fall when we bring Bear Grease Live to Wabanakik for a performance & community workshop.

It is our joy to provide this unique opportunity for Wabanaki and Mainers alike to witness mainstream art being decolonized in a way that brings people together in song, dance and laughter.
We hope you will join us!

Share your photos with us from last weekend - email to: [email protected]

Tickets are now available for Bear Grease Live!
Collins Center for the Arts | November 17th, 7:00 pm:
www.collinscenterforthearts.com/event/bear-grease/

Wabanaki Community member registration for tickets & November 18th workshop:
https://forms.gle/BJ9jF355J9xNUNXK8

music credit: Only you by Bear Grease Live

We hope you are soaking up some summertime fun! We are back in full work mode after our July restoration month. As we re...
08/05/2026

We hope you are soaking up some summertime fun! We are back in full work mode after our July restoration month. As we reflect individually and together, we hope to share the flashes of insight and learning we received as we integrate them into our work. In the coming months you will read many of these lessons in our blog posts, email correspondence, social media posts, and newsletters. We hope you will notice the refreshed energy in our work.

Don’t forget Monday, August 17th is National Nonprofit Day! On this day, we honor the valuable work of nonprofits, their boards, staff, and volunteers.There are many nonprofits that need support and you can show up for them in many ways.

You can help REACH by signing up for our monthly email, by engaging with the resources and blog posts on our website, by listening to Dawnland Signals, by spreading awareness, and making a donation to support our work.

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PO Box 163
Old Town, ME
04468

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