Member Spotlight: Bomazeen Land Trust
This month we are highlighting Bomazeen Land Trust. We encourage you to explore the work of Bomazeen Land Trust by visiting their website to explore their events and programs.
Mission: Bomazeen Land Trust enables the Wabanaki people to renew and resume their land caretaking and stewardship roles for lands and waters with historical, spiritual, and ecological significance to the Abenaki/Wabanaki people.
We protect ancestral Wabanaki spaces through land return and reconnecting community members to our lands.
Upcoming Program: Our newest program, the Ancestral Knowledge Institute (AKI), launched at the end of 2024 and aims to expand our land and cultural initiatives across the region. This year, we ran the first iteration aimed at creating cultural learning experiences for Wabanaki community members in ancestral and contemporary land-based skills. Its structure combines peer-to-peer mentorship, youth mentorship, and general workshops or excursions that begin in Wabanaki homelands. Our expected outcome is to equip Wabanaki community members with the knowledge and skills to appreciate and to be in right relationship to our rivers and streams, and forests.