With: Dr. Robert Goodby

Class Fee: Free / registration required

Class size: 50 / all ages

Abenaki history has been reduced to near-invisibility as a result of a conquering culture that placed little value on the Indigenous experience, and a strategy of self-preservation that required many Abenaki to go “underground,” concealing their true identities for generations to avoid discrimination and persecution. Prof. Goodby reveals archaeological evidence that shows their deep presence here, inches below the earth’s surface.

This program is sponsored by New Hampshire Humanities.

Robert Goodby is a professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University. He has spent the last thirty years studying Native American archaeological sites in New England, including directing the excavations of four 12,000-year-old Paleoindian dwellings in Keene. He is a past president of the New Hampshire Archeological Society and served on the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs.