Portland hopes to lead the way in integrating Wabanaki studies into classes

One Portland educator has spent years consulting with Wabanaki experts to come up with a K-12 curriculum.

Passamaquoddy clean water bill gets strong bipartisan support

The Mills administration has expressed concern about the scope of the bill, which appears to have enough support to overcome a possible veto.

Advocates rally for safe drinking water for Passamaquoddy Tribe

Proposed legislation would give the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point more control over their drinking water supply.

Maine plans to transfer parcel of land back to Passamaquoddy tribe

The land is a 3.2-acre waterfront parcel in the Washington County town of Meddybemps.

Maine charity working to preserve languages worldwide

Rockland activists, whose work is featured in new Netflix documentary airing Friday in Camden, seeks social justice by preserving, fostering rare languages.

Lawmakers reviewing 1980 agreement take up tribal gambling

One of 22 proposed changes to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act would allow Maine's tribes to operate casinos under the same federal law that governs tribal gambling nationwide.

Governor, attorney general urge caution on changes to 1980 state-tribal agreement

Gov. Janet Mills, in particular, raised concerns that the proposed changes could end up ‘breeding confusion and extensive litigation at a time when we have finally begun to move past these.’

Gov. Mills grants full pardon to late tribal attorney Donald Gellers

Maine's first known posthumous pardon brings closure to a 1968 case that was one of the most sordid in the state's legal history.

Disagreements threaten uneasy truce between tribes, Maine

Maine American Indians, fishing for millennia, regroup as latest effort for state pact fades