Haven Heritage Forensics

Protecting American Abenaki culture by researching, storing, and sharing authentic local Abenaki culture.

Haven Heritage Forensics (HHF) is a smaller, more recent, and more focused AHH Inc. program. The previous Haven Project began in 2012, after the successful completion of the four tribes receiving Vermont State tribal recognition. To protect the wealth of data that was collected by the tribes in preparation for recognition, the Haven was created to organize and store this corpus of tribal memory for posterity. In the light of recent challenges to the community, HHF was created to reconfigure the archived information into more structured, well-documented narratives that could withstand opposition research and provide them to the community. Today HHF’s strategy is the publication of small, easy-to-read booklets focused on well-documented American Abenaki genealogy, history, and culture, as well as YouTube videos regarding places and objects that are important to proving ethnic legitimacy.

In 2023, Chris LaFrance speaks at a news conference held by the American Abenaki at 7th Generation in Burlington, Vermont
VCNAA meeting with an Odanak delegation listening intently to Dr. Frederick M Wiseman's Haven Heritage Forensics lecture

Publications

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Stone Language

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