MISSION

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations’ heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

VISION

A profound shift in understanding, respect, and support for sovereign Wabanaki Nations leads us all into a more thriving and equitable future.

VALUES

Community - We work together to celebrate our diversity and nurture our inter-relatedness.

Respect - We commit to truth-telling, listening, and dialogue, assuming best intentions.
Responsibility - We honor our resources, relationships, and ongoing practice of decolonization, acknowledging our obligations to Wabanaki Nation’s ancestors, homelands, and futures.
Creativity - We strive to effect positive change through innovation, imagination, collaboration, vision, hope, and joy.

THREE-YEAR GOALS

FOR WABANAKI NATIONS

The Abbe is a trusted and stable strategy and education partner to Wabanaki Nations.
Wabanaki Tribal museums and Cultural and Historic Preservation offices benefit from and are in collaboration with the Abbe.
A new generation of Wabanaki museum curators, educators, and leaders has been fostered by the Abbe Museum.

FOR MAINE COMMUNITIES

Learners of all ages and organizational partners understand the relationship of Wabanaki Nations to a thriving Maine and are empowered to be advocates and allies.
More people state-wide have access to the Abbe’s decolonized learning, engagement, and activation resources both in person and digitally.
The Abbe becomes an exemplar of effective decolonial business models that promote Wabanaki museum leadership development at the Abbe and throughout Maine.

FOR MAINE VISITORS

Visitors are attracted to the museum and enjoy a more complete understanding of Wabanaki Nations as central to Maine history, present, and futures
Visitors continue to access and interact with the museum digitally.
Interaction with and learning from Wabanaki and other museum professionals.

OTHER GOALS

ADVANCEMENT

Goal - Solid and sustainable finances, communications, & marketing allow the Abbe to better realize its mission.

COMMUNITY

Goal - Closer and additional relationships create more impact for Wabanaki nations while expanding reach to Maine residents and visitors.

FACILITIES

Goal - Buildings and collections are well stewarded in a financially sustainable way.

FINANCE

Goal - Sustainable financial literacy for board and staff ensures that board is fully engaged with fiduciary responsibilities.

GOVERNANCE

Goal - Clearly agreed on, documented, implemented & communicated decolonized/indigenized processes for decision making and fiduciary responsibility increase the Museum’s impact, sustainability, and model.