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Denise and Paul Pouliot tell us about the indigenous roots of many of the area names.
Denise and Paul Pouliot tell us about the indigenous roots of many of the area names, and how they are working with local officials to bring back some of the area's native species.
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Exeter | Indigenous Peoples & the Rebirth of the Squamscott
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Denise and Paul Pouliot tell us about the indigenous roots of many of the area names, and how they are working with local officials to bring back some of the area's native species.
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Hello friends.
My name is Denise Pouliot.
I'm the head female speaker and this is Paul Pouliot, head male speaker and chief for the Kowasuck Band of the Penicook Abenaki.
Our Abenaki culture.
Most place names actually have, description of what was being done there.
What was captured there?
Maybe even the geographical features of the location were embedded in the language.
When we look at New Hampshire and everybody looks at different place names, they don't realize that a lot of these names were Anglophied.
They made them into English, constructs, because what was happening is they couldn't pronounce a lot of, a language.
So the word squam came out of a lot of things, but in fact, m squam make it refers to something.
It's red.
So what we're talking about when you talked about Squam, you were talking about salmon all the time, red fleshed fish, because people talked about what they ate more than what they captured.
When we look at Exeter, Exeter is named Squam, a cook meaning the abode of the same where the salmon lived.
Well, this may have been quite literally the fact that salmon could easily make their way up from the from the ocean into this region.
And that's why we call it the abode of the salmon.
So when we said we're going to, swum a cook, we knew we're going to go salmon fishing.
So when we look at the history of the of New Hampshire and excellent specific terms, this was a fishing place.
So when you look at, Exeter, we think of it as an old fishing village, probably.
When we removed the dam, which, you know, the, the great Dam in Exeter itself, and now we're going to remove the pickpocket, false dam.
We now know that the river is becoming more and more like it was in the past, where fish may be able to migrate further inland.
We've been doing a lot of work trying to hopefully, study and determine whether salmon could ever come back again.
And problem is today that the waters of these rivers are much too warm for salmon to actually migrate up into and, you know, and lay their, their fry and eggs and everything and recreate another generation.
So we're hoping that as the waters get more and more, available for, for migratory fish, we'll see more abundant and diverse, fish coming through the Exeter Passage, as we call it.
So what we see now, though, is the alewives, the lampreys, the, blue back herring are all starting to migrate back.
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And like she said, maybe we'll start to see some kind of the more aggressive, predator fish start following them inland.
Now, stripers, striped bass seem to be more adaptable to these climate change issues.
Maybe we'll see more striped bass coming.
Not all the way upriver, but at least, you know, being closer to Exeter as this happens.
And we know it works better up in the Penobscot River further north, because it's colder waters.
And we know that the Kennebec can sustain salmon as well.
But again, the rivers are too warm.
And what we've good for now.
And as we removed dams, the water is going to flow more freely and it'll actually drop the temp of the water, which makes it more conducive for the salmon to return.
So if we do some strategic planting and trees and other things to kind of shield the river, a little bit from the sun, the possibility of salmon returning, is there.
We're trying to figure out can we ever reintroduce, a robust fishing community and, you know, on our rivers, it's a challenging thing.
But, you know, we are if we don't try, like everybody says, if you don't try, you're not in the game.
And maybe we'll be able to introduce some species, like, maybe we'll start to see the sturgeon come further into our watersheds, and we know the herring are there.
So we have eels, American eels.
Exeter was well known for having the eel festivals at one point in time.
And it was like, a cookout for the fire department or something, you know, for the town.
And we're hoping that at some point, the lies and the river herring will be abundant enough again that we could have maybe, you know, have harvesting of them as well.
Right now, they're protected because, you know, there's not enough of them migrating upriver.
But who knows?
And time we may see this become part of the culture of the, of the town again.
The city.
Excellent.
May go back to those old days of having community festivals.
You know, we've been doing the Alewife Festival for how many years now?
4 or 5 years?
4 or 5 years now.
So once the dam was returned and the alewives actually started to return back into the river, the festival festival returned.
So as time moves forward and we're able to restore some of our, hunting and fishing practices, not just as indigenous people, but as everyone who lives here.
This benefits the entire population and our community as a whole.
And these dams as they get removed, I think you're going to see a more robust ecosystem, and especially what we call head of Tide Dance.
Those are the ones who are most interested right now because they have the biggest impact on migratory fish.
An exodus, pretty, aggressive on this.
And we like that.
We love the fact that this has been kind of a study for us, because it has really been pushing this narrative of let's free the rivers.
And, you know, there's a great bay 2030, there's prep, there's there's all kinds of things out there.
Prog, programs now, seven rivers to the coast.
There's a lot of interest in protecting the histories.
So we're excited about this time period.
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