Mali Obomsawin is the next speaker in the Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center’s Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series, set for 7 p.m. Thursday, June 15, in Tewksbury Hall on Weston Avenue in Skowhegan, or by Zoom.

Obomsawin will present the living Wabanaki history of the Kennebec River region and its people from before European arrival to the colonial era (up to the present) and the LandBack movement in Maine and beyond, according to a news release from Sheri Leahan, museum curator.

Obomsawin’s tribal historic preservation research focuses on Abenaki community history and its intersections with other Wabanaki nations in the modern-day U.S. The Abenaki of today make up two federally recognized First Nations (Odanak and W8linak) in Canada, but originally come from homelands in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Obomsawin is a musician, writer and community organizer originally from Farmington, and a citizen of Odanak First Nation (Abenaki). She serves as executive director of Bomazeen Land Trust, an inter-tribal Wabanaki initiative dedicated to land return, rematriation and food sovereignty across Wabanaki homelands.

She also works as a consultant and writer with Sunlight Media Collective. She is committed to telling stories at the intersections of environmental justice, history and tribal sovereignty through her work.

Her writings have also been published in The Boston Globe and Smithsonian Folklife Magazine. Obomsawin holds a dual degree in government and comparative literature from Dartmouth College.

To join by Zoom, visit skowheganhistoryhouse.org. For more information, call 207-474-6632.

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