Front:
IN MEMORY OF
JOSEPH LAURENT
ABENAKI CHIEF
AUTHOR OF ARENA LENGER BLOGTE
SE FRANCIS INDIAN RESERVE ODANAL CELE
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Inscription On Bronze Tablet
In Memory of
JOSEPH LAURENT
Abenaki Chief
Author of Abenaki & English Dialogues
born 1839 - died 1917
St. Francis Indian Reserve, Odanak, Quebec
In 1884 he led back to the land of their fathers
a group of Abenaki and Sokoki Indians and
established here in the woods of Intervale a
perennial summer settlement of his people.
. . . ni odzi modzin nidali, ta wdali paiƓn
agmatta wdakik
. . . and he left that place and returned to his
own country
Erected in love and reverence by his children
in 1959.
Stephen Laurent
COLOR MASTERS, INC., 475 Fifth Ave., N. Y. 17, N. Y.
Color Photo by:
HANNAU COLOR PROD. OF N. Y. INC.
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