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Date: 2015-02-04
Creator: Anonymous
Access: Open access
Date: 2014-11-04
Creator: Alivia Moore
Access: Open access
Date: 2014-07-17
Creator: Anonymous
Access: Open access
On June 29, 2012, five Wabanaki Chiefs and Maine’s Governor Paul LePage signed a mandate commencing the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Under the leadership of five appointed commissioners, the TRC was charged with examining Maine’s child welfare practices affecting Wabanaki people; the focus of the Commission was on "truth, healing, and change." Over the course of three years, the TRC collected statements from nearly 150 individuals and focus groups. The TRC published a final report on June 14, 2015, detailing key findings and recommendations for further action.
At the conclusion of its work, the TRC transferred its extensive archives to the Bowdoin College Library’s George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. The collection includes video, audio, and written statements, and other personal documents contributed by participants, founding documents, the final report, and administrative and research records. This website provides online access to all the unrestricted statements that are part of the collection. Researchers interested in consulting other components of the collection described in the online inventory may do so by visiting the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. For more information, email scaref@bowdoin.edu or call 207.725.3288.
Please read Wabanaki REACH's statement of support issued upon the release of the archives.
Date: 2019-11-10
Creator: Alvin Hall
Access: Open access
- Alvin Hall ’74 begins with a brief anecdote on how he helped bring together Geoffrey Canada and Stanley Druckenmiller to collaborate on the Harlem’s Children Zone. Druckenmiller was a friend of Hall’s roommate at Bowdoin, and Canada a member of the Afro-American Society. A couple years after graduation, Hall ran into Canada on the streets of New York and shared that Druckenmiller had recently come into good fortune. The rest is history. Hall remembers fondly how close the Bowdoin community was when he was a student. He spent many nights in the John B. Russwurm Center, where black students could come together for community. Hall recounts his involvement with the Society during his four years as a student. He took part in several protests, including a silent strike, where black students advocated for more people of color in the faculty and student body.
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Susan Graham
Access: Open access
- Susan Graham, a Bowdoin College housekeeper for 14 years, shares her experiences cleaning for the Environmental Services team of Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, Maine during the Covid19 crisis. Susan was hired by the hospital after she offered assistance during her hiatus from Bowdoin, when the campus was closed to all but essential personnel in the weeks following March 18th, 2020. Susan also reflects on the impact of the crisis on her home life and her work at Bowdoin. Interviewed by Bowdoin Archivist, Caroline Moseley.
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Nora Pierson
Access: Open access
- How having Multiple Sclerosis has prepared me for life in the time of Covid-19. The author is an alumna from the class of 2000.
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Mac Brower
Access: Open access
- This is a poem I composed while stay-at-home orders were being issued nationwide. I wrote it shortly after leaving my home in Washington, DC to live with my parents in North Carolina. The author is an alumnus from the class of 2018.
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: Saira Toppin
Access: Open access
- Saira Toppin ’09 discusses her upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, and how that made for a challenging transition to Brunswick, Maine. She shares how a few juniors mentored her during her first year, which helped Toppin adjust to Bowdoin. She credits this mentorship with encouraging her to carve out space for herself on campus as an Afro-Latina and also to look out for others once she became an upperclassman. She shares stories from her time on the boards of both the African American Society and the Latin American Students Organization (LASO). As co-president of LASO during her junior and senior year, Toppin helped the organization have an impact on campus by organizing Latin American Heritage Month event Fall. She made sure to mentor underclassman so that they could run the club in her absence and considers LASO to be her legacy.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Anonymous
Access: Open access
- This is a response to the Documenting Bowdoin & COVID-19 Reflections Questionnaire. The questionnaire was created in March 2021 by staff of Bowdoin's George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. The author is a member of Bowdoin's faculty.