In August 2009 the Adirondack Museum hosted Abenaki Day. To list just a few highlights - All the participants who demonstrated their craft had a captive audience, We met many Abenaki's, it was like a family reunion! and we had alot of fun.
Please read the excellent story by one of our own members Abenaki family historian, David Benedict, and Christopher Roy, PhD candidate below who presented our history in the Adirondacks with our baskets donated (1800) by Maude Benedict whose husband was Edwin Nagazoa. A few of her baskets are at the NYS Museum as well as basket making tools. They resided in Albany as do many Abenaki people.
By Christopher Roy & David Benedict, 7 June 2009
While most people associate Abenaki people with the Odanak reserve on the banks of the St. Francis River in Quebec, Abenaki history is just as rooted in the Adirondack Mountains.
No Abenaki has figured as prominently throughout the history of the Adirondack region as Mitchell Sabattis (1821-1906).
Famous guide and highly respected resident of Long Lake, New York, local history and old newspaper accounts are full of tales of Sabattis' impressive knowledge of the natural world, of his wealthy clients, of the deer, panthers and moose which he hunted, and of the impressive age which his father, Captain Peter, was reported to have attained.
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