And the question that inspired this episode came from David Hess. Here on Brave Little State, we answer questions submitted and voted on by you, the audience. “I never say the word Vermont on the album, because for us, there's no distinction," Mali says. While the album is about the land known as Vermont, it’s not quite about "Vermont," specifically. And so some of the stories on the album are stories that our people told, ancient stories and newer stories that talk about places in what is now called Vermont,” Mali says. “We never stopped coming back to Vermont. It’s a chapter of history that comes through in Mali’s album, Sweet Tooth, along with other stories connected to this region. In the Northeast, some of those who survived sought refuge across the border in places like Odanak (a name meaning " in the village"). Then, Indigenous people experienced disease, genocide and slavery at the hands of European colonizers, which researchers estimate to have wiped out 90% of the Indigenous population across the continent. Up until the early 1600s, they lived everywhere from the Champlain Valley in New York and Vermont all the way east to Maine.
The term "Wabanaki" generally refers to the same people as the word more commonly used in Vermont, "Abenaki." Both describe people indigenous to this region, and both words describe Mali’s ancestors.
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