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In 2006, she published a children's book called Malian's Song, which tells the story of the 1759 attack by
British Major Robert Rogers on the St. Francis Abenaki community. The story follows the eyewitness account of Brink's grandmother Elvine Obomsawin who lived through the raid. Brink's ancestor
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Brink started to learn basketmaking in 1986. Her first experience with basket-making was a class with a non-native teacher. She was frustrated and did not finish the basket. She spoke with her mother, who explained that students did not start with baskets, but with bookmarks, in order to learn the
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Her cultural heritage work included being the project director and curator of the material culture and art exhibit "Spirit of the
Abenaki" and co-director and curator of Abenaki art exhibit "Shamanism, Magic and the Busy Spider."
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Starting in 1989, Brink worked with Gordon Day to compile an
Abenaki dictionary. They wrote the Alnobaodwa Western Abenaki Language Guide, and Brink digitized Day's Western Abenaki Dictionary.
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