HOME's 2025 New England Heritage Days will focus on Maine's Native American Heritage. We will be visiting museums as well as hosting virtual classes that teach about Wabanaki Tribes that lived in Maine. Join us for one or more of the event listed below. Check back often as more events may be added as they are confirmed.

Location: Hudson Museum, 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono

Dates: Monday, September 29, 2025

Time: 10am or 1pm

Cost: $3 per person

Please pre-register for this event by September 20. 

Accompanying unit study: Maine Native Studies, free with your registration.

Recommended Age Range: All Ages!

Learn about the material culture of Maine’s four tribes at the Hudson Museum, focusing on basketry, birchbark work, decorative and carving traditions.  Your program may include traditional Penobscot legends or interviews with Wabanaki basketmakers, carvers, birchbark and beadwork artists.  Activities for this tour are age-appropriate and allow students to try their hand at playing Waltes, a traditional bowl game, making a “birchbark” container or a Northeastern decorative bag.

Location: Online

Dates: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Time: 1:30pm

Cost: free

Please pre-register for this event by September 20. 

Accompanying unit study: Maine Native Studies, free with your registration.

Recommended Age Range: All Ages!

Students explore images, documents, and artifacts to uncover a small piece of the story of the impact Maine statehood had on Wabanaki people in the 1800s. 

Location: Abbe Museum

Dates: Thursday, October 2, 2025

Time: 10am

Cost: $8.00 per student, $10 per adult

Please pre-register for this event by September 20. 

Accompanying unit study: Maine Native Studies, free with your registration.

Recommended Age Range: All Ages!

Visitors are led through a guided tour of the museum’s exhibits at our downtown location. We will examine our core exhibit, People of the First Light, which shares more than 12,000 years of history, conflict, adaptation, and survival in Wabanaki homelands and changing exhibitions that highlight Wabanaki living cultures and art.

Location: Online

Dates: Thursday, October 2, 2025

Time: 1:30pm

Cost: free

Please pre-register for this event by September 20. 

Accompanying unit study: Maine Native Studies, free with your registration.

Recommended Age Range: All Ages!

Learn from primary sources about the impact of “Indian residential schools” on Wabanaki children, shown through local and national images, documents, artifacts, and sound recordings.

* Event Refund Policy - Registration fees may be refunded up to the registration deadline for this event. No refunds will be made after the registration deadline. In the event that you must cancel, please consider making your fee a donation to HOME rather than requesting a refund! If an event must be canceled or rescheduled for any reason, HOME will notify participants. Refunds will then be considered on a case by case basis, depending on whether or not the event is rescheduled.