Our Vision
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Our Vision
Present and future generations nurture the sacred unbroken relationship with Mother Earth and each other, living in balance on the ancestral lands and waterways of the Wabanaki.
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Our Mission
Nibezun celebrates culture as medicine, provides an inclusive space for healing, and promotes sustainability for all people and future generations.
The Seeds We Planted
Rivers have sustained Wabanaki people since Koluskap shot his arrow into the ash tree and they stepped forth from the opening left behind. Rivers are cleansers, life givers, and connectors of communities. Located on sacred Wabanaki lands along the Penobscot River, Nibezun translates to “medicine” in the Penobscot language. Its root word, “nibi” means water, our first medicine. Here we water the seeds of healing for present and future generations.
In 2016, an 85-acre property was listed for sale in Passadumkeag, Maine. The land – a traditional meeting ground and harvesting place for red ochre by the Wabanaki and their ancestors, the Red Paint People – is the last access point to Olamon Island, the original residential village of the Penobscot Nation and essential to traditional activities such as gathering medicines, fasting, and ceremony. Nibezun was formed when a small group of tribal members and allies came together to purchase this sacred land, protecting it for the healing of all people and the next seven generations.