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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Between We Are Water and Wabanaki Stories, I'm just realizing what a banner year I've had performance-wise. Every performance sold out. We sold out the Merrill Auditorium 4 times. 1900 seats. Over 15,000 people have seen Wabanaki Stories. Mind-blowing. Never thought I'd be doing this at my age.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Extremely positive review for If You Lived During the American Revolution by School Library Journal VERDICT This social studies text would be highly effective in a classroom setting during a unit on the American Revolution, inviting lively student discussions. www.slj.com/review/if-yo...

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If You Lived During the American Revolution

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The "Manhattan Book Club" sent a follow up. How could I say no to this "exposure" (that I pay for)? Sorry....Scholastic offers me exposure and pays me for it. That way I'm not exploited. See how that works?

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I can finally share some good news! I'm a contributing author to McGraw-Hill Literacy's newest program launching in Fall 2027 called Emerge! www.mheducation.com/prek-12/prog... My contributions are a blend of fiction or historical fiction. #Intheroom #Changingtheconversation

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Emerge | K–5 Literacy from McGraw Hill

Launch the literacy journey for your K–5 learners with Emerge!, a new  way to build the knowledge and foundational ELA skills students need to succeed.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

As I predicted. A right wing Christian nationalist was the first to give a review for American Revolution on Goodreads and of course she hated it. Ben Shapiro's Revolution book....five stars though. I'm sure there will be more 😀

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

If You Lived During the American Revolution is out! Did you know it's also a @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social selection! Sending them my personal thanks for supporting the book!! Available everywhere you buy books!

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

"Newell, a Passamaquoddy musician and the Native American Cultural Director at the University of Connecticut, described the project as a tribute and a call to action: a way of paying credence to waterways at a time when, as he put it, “our water is in crisis.”" home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/11...

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Finding Wisdom in the Waters | Dartmouth

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This was the scene at Dartmouth during We Are Water! Love this photo. The redesigned Hop is lit up to match the theme and they set up a big screen on the Green to show the simulcast of the concert. Such a lively atmosphere!

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

All this work with Yo Yo Ma and I never stopped and got a picture with him. Until now. This was after his We The People concert in Boston. All 6 Bach cello suites. Two and a half hours of music all from memory. He's truly a treasure of our lifetime.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

"“We are all water,” Ma said in a Vermont Public interview. “It could be a very dangerous place, or it could be the place that gives us, literally, life. It’s both." home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/11...

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Finding Wisdom in the Waters | Dartmouth

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The finale of the Dartmouth show. #WeAreWater #YoYoMa www.facebook.com/share/v/17Tu...

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Redirecting...

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Wait a minute. River of Fundament was shown with Jonathan Bepler and live music in Poland?!?!! I was in RoF and I'm interested in this...

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My dad was such a proponent of our language that when the governor of Maine threatened jail time to Wabanaki chiefs for not turning over documents pertaining to our studies of water quality on our lands, dad said, "Translate them to Passamaquoddy and let them have them." Lol

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Great news in the inbox. If You Lived During the American Revolution has been chosen as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection!

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Been pow wowing so long I remember the days when camped everywhere we went. As singers we had to bring our own PA. These young guys are spoiled by all these badass Native run sound businesses now. ;)

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This came across my feed lately. The underground nature of this film's availability is giving it a long life. Brings back memories. Thirteen years since we recorded this (the opening song). #MysticRiverSingers #RiverofFundament vimeo.com/127499925

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River of Fundament: Matthew Barney

Mit RIVER OF FUNDAMENT kommt eines der aufwändigsten und spektakulärsten Kunstwerke der Gegenwart nach Hamburg: ein sinfonisch-epischer Film über…

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Now that is truly hilarious! 😂

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My students discovering my old TEDx Talk from 2013 is a hoot. 😆

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Making it to the finals of invite only fellowships and coming up short seems to be my specialty. One day I'll break through. *crossing fingers*

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The HUD website right now. Yes it's against the law.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

When the meeting is over, but we're stuck in it because a few people want to heavily discuss a tangent that doesn't involve the rest of us.

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a little girl is sitting at a table with a plate of food .

ALT: a little girl is sitting at a table with a plate of food .

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If it wasn't for DOGE and this crazy administration, we'd be working on the interpretation for the Carlisle Industrial School National Monument and telling some hard truths that we could all learn from. Instead, we're still acknowledging medals to soldiers who massacred the people they disarmed.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

So in this crazy political climate, I have a nonfiction kids book coming out about the American Revolution. My specialty...diverse perspectives. Pray for me... www.amazon.com/You-Lived-Du....

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If You Lived During the American Revolution

If You Lived During the American Revolution [Newell, Chris, Walthall, Steffi] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. If You Lived During the American Revolution

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get a lot of labels, but the one i use for myself is "educator" However, if I tell someone I'm an educator their eyes roll back. Yet if I say author, artist, singer etc they get all excited. I guess I'm just wired different. For me, the exciting thing is the education part...

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

When I said ok to this panel, I had no idea who the other panelists were....😲

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In surveys, my students consistently express that they stress less and learn more than they expected. Try it my fellow educators. I know we have standards to uphold, but these are human beings. Treat them with care and they'll be excited about what you have to teach. The rest takes care of itself.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This is exactly why I work with Yo-Yo Ma. He is as real as it gets. Love this.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Scary scenes from classic horror movies. I'll go first. The psychic reading scene from The Changeling with George C. Scott.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Writing nonfiction for kids means dotting your i's and crossing your t's repeatedly. Gotta get the details right. My editor emailed that If You Lived During the American Revolution is at the printer. A few last second details wrapped up and real books get made soon. Cue the anxiety...

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Just thinking. Heart block almost took my life in 2019. Seeing your chart with 10 seconds of flat line is sobering. Life changing. But the important part is, I lived. Everyone tells me it's because I have more to do. This latest work with Yo Yo Ma is truly starting to take on elements of that.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

When I was 16, I was a part time bowling mechanic on AMF machines. Actually really liked it. The sleuthing to figure out the problem and then getting the machine back up and running smooth was kind of a rush.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

How the hell did I get invited to an executives only conference on expanding a customer base. I thought it was a sales pitch but they're hardcore trying to recruit me and willing to pay everything. Still don't know how they settled on me as an invitee. Turned them down.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Still a few tickets left! (Very few). Between this and Wabanaki Stories we've sold out that 2000 seat theater 6 times.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Oh dang...I said this out loud and someone quoted me... "Writing a book almost feels in a way like you are opening a vein and exposing a part of yourself, not just to a class of 30 kids, but now to the world."

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We filmed our part for River of Fundament in 2012. After we were done they kept our outfits to be put in a collection. Every once in a while, I think about that crusty ensemble.....

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

My old high school friends being fragile because I support public broadcasting and the Emergency Alert System? Say it ain't so. They all got upset that I knew what I was talking about. Smh. Your peeps are in charge. If you can't handle legitimate criticism of their work you need to be tougher.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A little over a decade ago I was working in the casinos while commuting for my degree. A decade ago I became the Education Supervisor at the Pequot Museum. I wasn't paid much. Life was a struggle. If you asked me back then I wouldn't have even dreamed of what I'm doing today. What a ride.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Andrea Gibson went to my high school while I was there. I cheered them on from the stand. Andrea even won a state championship. RIP Gib www.out.com/news/andrea-...

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Celebrated queer poet Andrea Gibson dead at 49

Gibson was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021.

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A friend of mine sent me this map. Not sure the accuracy but I love it because they got Eastern Maine right. :)

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Looking for my annual turndown email about the Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship and can't find it. Checked the portal and my app says "in review". So I'm not even sure they saw it this year. No turndown letter. 🤷

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Tbh....I love my one star reviews. I wanna frame them. I write non fiction so my work is filtered through layers of fact checkers. The arguments against those facts are ridiculously entertaining. ;)

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

When someone falsely raises money to make and edit Tik Tok videos and then turns around and decides to put the content on their patreon for a price....please be wary....

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Chris Newell @noodlz2020.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

7 years ago. Getting ready to go sing none other than the champ Kali Reis into the ring.

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