Wabanaki Connections is a resource for educators searching for information about how to appropriately implement LD291 in their classrooms.  The editor, Joseph E. Charnley, will up-date the blog once a month and will add links and other information about LD291 as they become available.  Please feel free to respond to the information here with questions, comments, and new information that will help us all make LD291 work in Maine’s schools.

Joseph E. Charnley is a non-Native educator currently working at King Middle School in Portland, ME as a World Languages teacher. He is a co-facilitator with Val Vassar (Riverton) for LD291 (The Teaching of Maine Native American History & Culture) in the Portland School system and a co-facilitator with Rosie Shiras of the Native Studies Committee, a group of Native and non-Native educators working to help Maine’s teachers implement LD291. He is also finishing up a Minor in Native Studies through the Native Studies Department at UMaine - Orono.

Please check out this month’s Wabanaki Connections and use the websites under Blogroll to connect to Internet resources. “Wabanaki Connections: A Short Trip Through the Dawnland” is a KeyNote Presentation that explores LD291.  Please send me websites that you feel would benefit teachers implementing LD291 in their classrooms. Woliwon / Woliwoni / Wela’lin!