Dawnland Signals 7/7/26: Waponahki Photography

Hosts: Nolan Altavater and Nick Bear Producer: Esther Anne Technical Support: Scarlett Tudor Original music: Nick Bear Dawnland Signals highlights indigenous topics not immediately represented in mainstream media and is meant to share, inspire, and inform. This month: -Reclaiming an art form used for colonial subjection as a tool for self-determination and communal expression. -Current Abbe Museum exhibits with Wabanaki artists – In the Shadow of the Eagle and Holding the Light: Contemporary Wabanaki Photography -Historical harm of photography that puts native people in the past -The reclamation of contemporary photography to direct indigenous existence, narratives, and cultures -Self portraiture as documentation of the persistence of Wabanaki existence and way of life -Annual Dawnland Festival of Arts and Ideas in Bar Harbor that centers Wabanaki and Native thought leadership through panels, performances, and a Northeastern Native arts market Guests: Maya Attean – Penobscot and Passamaquoddy, Artist, Photographer and Media Specialist for Wabanaki REACH Christiana Becker – Penobscot, Curator of Education at the Abbe Museum FMI: www.abbemuseum.org/ www.abbemuseum.org/dawnland-festival www.wabanakireach.org/ The post Dawnland Signals 7/7/26: Waponahki Photography first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.