 Today, there are some passionate Abenaki and non-Abenaki people like Jeanne Brink of Vermont who are trying to revitalize Abenaki culture, including their language and basket-making traditions.Today, there are about 12,000 people of varying Abenaki heritage in the Canadian and New England regions.In [[Maine]], there are about 3,000 [[Penobscot]] Native Americans, and this group is a large driving force of the language resurrection.