“Nebizun: Water is Life”
Painting by Francine Poitras Jones,
Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe
On display as part of the traveling exhibit “Nebizun: Water is Life,” curated by Vera Longtoe Sheehan.
Nebizun is the Abenaki word for medicine and the root word Nebi is the Abenaki word for water. The rivers and tributaries of N’Dakinna (our homeland) were our highways for traveling and the water itself is important to the species of fish and other wildlife that is necessary to our way of life.