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Caro Thompson, December 5

The Making of the Documentary: Champlain: The Lake Between

Caro Thompson's website is located at http://www.broadwingproductions.com

Filmmaker's Favorite Books - short list. It's not complete by any stretch of the imagination.

New Worlds for All by Colin Calloway (1997) - A short, very readable and fascinating look at interactions and responses between European and Native nations in early America. Calloway has a long list of excellent books about Native nations on this continent and did his dissertation on the Abenaki peoples. I would recommend any one of them. Some are more scholarly than others.

In Search of New England's Native Past by Gordon Day (1999) - This is a book of essays by the late Gordon Day, who spent almost 30 years studying and chronicling the history of Abenaki peoples. With the assistance of Jeanne Brink, he created a dictionary of the Abenaki language.

Malian's Song by Marge Bruchac (2006), published by the Vermont Folklife Center. It's the story of Robert Rogers' 1759 raid (he led a British Ranger unit) on the Abenaki community of St. Francis. It's based on the oral history that has come down through Jeanne Brink's family. She lives in Vermont. Her great-great-great grandfather was killed in the raid. People can go to the Vermont Folklife Center's website to hear her grandmother tell the story in Abenaki.

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