Local Abenaki Chief Don Stevens talks land acknowledgment

Local Abenaki Chief Don Stevens talks land acknowledgment

Don Stevens, Local Abenaki Chief speaks on Middlebury's land acknowledgment, where the land acknowledgment could be improved, and the hardships that the Abenaki people are currently facing--especially in terms of COVID.

Maya Heikkinen

The Campus

05/13/2021

Don Stevens

"I think that carrying out the spirit of that land acknowledgment can be more. In other words, it's already good that [the college is] working on these programs, and I think having a full-time position at Middlebury College to be able to work on education of the students [could] be a resource — being there to create a Native American student body club for other Native students that may not know other Native students that exist in the college, to create a safe place to practice your culture when you're away from home and be able to build that bond between Native people that might be on campus"- Don Stevens