Giving Thanks Drive 2019
As you probably know GEDAKINA has been doing a Thanksgiving Turkey, food basket/grocery gift card program since we became a “formal nonprofit organization” back in 2002. Before GEDAKINA, founding members helped to start and fund…
Nipmuc Youth Hand Drum Making 2018
Led by Larry “Spotted Crow” Mann
Sweet Land Farm – Starks, 2017
Jay Robinson, owner of Sweet Land Farm in Starks, Maine gave us one of the most wonderful gifts we could hope for: he opened his land to indigenous people to work toward recovery of women-led…
Indigenous People Day – Starks, 2017
In March 2017, the town of Starks voted to replace columbus day with Indigenous People’s Day. They set about organizing their inaugural celebration and invited Gedakina to collaborate by hosting visitors to our planting field…
Staff Development Workshop 2017
Having staff scattered throughout New England presents a challenge to team building and training, and so we gather altogether several times a year for workshops and trainings–and a little fun and team building! This one…
Wild Rice Recovery 2017
In autumn 2017, in collaboration with Ray Reitze and the folks at Primitive Skills School in Augusta, Maine, we were able to begin fulfilling the dream of recovering local wild rice as part of the…
Canoeing Journeys 2017
Gedakina led and or sponsored many paddling day trips and longer journeys like the Ancestors’ Paddle from Indian Township to Sipayik. Many canoe daytrips were made by women and girls reconnecting with ancestral waterways. In…
Braiding Sweetgrass – Machias, Summer 2017
This summer we made several trips to Machias with Braiding Sweetgrass circles, to gather Sweetgrass and soak in the beauty and good medicine of Jasper Beach and the nearby ancient Passamaquoddy petroglyphs at Picture Rocks….
Nanrantsouak Three-Sisters Planting Field on Sandy River in Maine
Mother Corn Project: Women-led recovery of traditional indigenous Three Sisters mound gardening on ancient Abenaki planting fields at Jay Robinson’s Sweet Land Farm along the Sandy River intervale in Starks, Maine. This is the first…
