The Penobscot elder, politician and writer is encouraged by symbolically important progress, but she says the heavy lifting lies ahead.
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Native Mainers plan to reflect, educate on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Maine is one of 14 states and the District of Columbia that now observe Native American or Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of, or in addition to, Columbus Day.
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Mills, tribes take step toward ending years-long dispute over sustenance fishing
A bill would create a ‘sustenance fishing’ designation aimed at reducing pollution levels on waterways that are important to Maine’s 4 tribes.
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Mills appoints senior adviser for tribal affairs as state tries to improve relations
Donna Loring, a former police chief and Penobscot Nation representative to the Legislature, will serve as a liaison between the Mills administration and tribal governments.
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‘New era’ looms for Maine and its tribes
The governor kindles hope, but tensions linger over the role she played as attorney general in regard to sovereignty issues.
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Passamaquoddy Tribe says it will stick with hemp, not grow marijuana
AUGUSTA — A Maine tribe has ruled out growing medical marijuana for now and will stick to pursuing growing hemp. The Passamaquoddy Tribe says it had cut off all contact on the marijuana idea last fall with Monarch America, a Littleton, Colorado-based company that said it was close to building a Maine cultivation facility with […]
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Passamaquoddy Tribe plans marijuana facility in Princeton
PRINCETON — The Passamaquoddy Tribe has signed a letter of intent with a medical marijuana management and consulting company to build a cultivation facility in northeastern Maine. The Portland Press Herald reports Monarch America Inc. announced last week it plans to design and manage a cutting edge marijuana cultivation facility in an existing 35,000-square-foot building […]
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Obama sends 2 Cabinet secretaries to tour Passamaquoddy school
PLEASANT POINT — President Barack Obama’s administration dispatched a pair of Cabinet secretaries to the easternmost region of the U.S. on Monday to get a firsthand look at a Passamaquoddy Tribe school that has been targeted for replacement. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan toured the K-8 Beatrice Rafferty School […]
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Former official pleads not guilty to embezzling $20,000 from Passamaquoddy Tribe
BANGOR — The man accused of stealing $20,000 from the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point entered not guilty pleas Monday to four federal charges of theft and embezzlement. Charles Fourcloud, 59, is accused of embezzling the funds between May and August 2013 when he worked as finance director for the Washington County tribe and oversaw […]
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Tribal official fighting elver poaching charges in New York
For the past several years, there has been a simmering dispute — sometimes boiling — between Maine state officials and the Passamaquoddy Tribe over the elver fishery. The state, citing concerns about the number of American eels, has sought to limit the tribe’s ability to issue licenses to its members for fishing elvers, or baby […]