COWASS North America, Inc. (Cowasuck Band Pennacook-Abenaki People)

COWASS North America is the Indigenous (Native American)
fiscal non-profit organization of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki
People that is headquartered in Alton, New Hampshire.  COWASS North America is an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff - all monies are used for projects, programs, and research. 

The Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook - Abenaki People has been
an active petitioner for Federal acknowledgement as a tribal community with the
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs since 1995.   To support the
Cowasuck Band and our endeavors, a nonprofit social and cultural services
organization called COWASS North America Inc, also doing business as The
Abenaki Nation of Vermont was created in 1993. 
It is registered as a 501(c)3 organization with the IRS (ID# 22-3229024)
and is headquartered in Alton, New Hampshire. 

The Cowasuck Band provides: Educational & Cultural
Programs, Documentary Films, Social Services, Food Sovereignty, Health Care Initiatives,
Museum & Library Resources, Incarcerated Indigenous Religious Services,
Housing, Land Conservation as well as extensive Environmental and Educational
Research.   

To promote public education & social activism through an
Indigenous perspective, the Indigenous New Hampshire Collaborative Collective
(INHCC) was created in 2016.  This began
as a collaboration between the Cowasuck Band tribal leaders, UNH faculty and
undergraduate students has grown to include people with a wide range of
professional and personal backgrounds that include local tribal leaders, Indigenous
and non-Indigenous students, community activists, artists, film makers,
volunteers, researchers, staff, and faculty from multiple educational
institutions and universities across the United States. 

For accessible public outreach and education, the Cowasuck
Band has created an ADA accessible, mobile historical and cultural museum and resource
center that brings Indigenous artifacts, cultural resources, and educational
materials to your town’s local festivals, public events and educational
institutions. 

Please visit our websites at:

INHCC - www.indigenousnh.com

Cowasuck Band - www.cowasuck.org 

Cowasuck Band Facebook - www.facebook.com/cowasuck/