WNHHS April 2025 Zoom Recording — Gluskabe — The Magical, Powerful Culture Figure Central to Wabanaki Storytelling
Tue, Apr 15
|YouTube Recording
Watch this recording of the April 2025 meeting where, in traditional Wabanaki storytelling manner, Anne Jennison will introduce Gluskabe, who is at the center of an entire body of lesson stories that are central to the Wabanaki cultures of NH & the NE. No RSVP Needed.
Time & Location
Apr 15, 2025, 4:30 PM – Apr 25, 2025, 11:50 PM
YouTube Recording
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Gluskabe — The Magical, Powerful Culture Figure Central to Wabanaki Storytelling
With Native American storyteller and historian Anne Jennison
In this traditional Wabanaki storytelling presentation, Anne Jennison will introduce Gluskabe, who is at the center of an entire body of lesson stories that are central to the Wabanaki cultures of New Hampshire and the Northeast. Gluskabe is not the Creator, nor is he human; rather he is somewhere in between. Gluskabe has magical powers, is as tall as the white pine trees, and a friend to the Alnobak (the human beings). Layered with multiple embedded meanings, Gluskabe stories reveal the central spiritual and ethical beliefs of the Wabanaki peoples. They teach traditional Wabanaki understandings about how to live in harmony and balance with Mother Earth – and what kinds of things can happen when that balance is disrupted. Each time a Gluskabe story is heard,…