The Maine Center for Economic Policy says the state should pay for the return, or offer co-management, of state land due to uncompensated theft.
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Penobscot elder ‘Butch’ Phillips dies at 85
A celebrated culture-bearer and artist, Reuben Elliot ‘Butch’ Phillips also was part of the team that negotiated the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980.
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The Maine military man who documented the lives of Indigenous tribes
Brunswick has known many notable military names in its illustrious history. Men like Joshua Chamberlain, Oliver Otis Howard and Thomas Hyde round out the top three. But one legendary military officer is less known for storied military exploits and more so for his extensive contribution to the world of art and to the pictorial history […]
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Press Herald, Report for America announce hire of journalist to cover Indigenous communities
Reuben M. Schafir, a Bowdoin College graduate and former Press Herald intern, will be returning to the newsroom in July to cover the Wabanaki Nations.
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Press Herald teams up with Report for America to cover Wabanaki Nations
This first-of-its-kind beat will examine how Maine’s distinct limits on tribal sovereignty affect more than 9,000 members of the tribes that make up the Wabanaki Nations.
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What Maine can learn from Wabanaki environmental wisdom
Science is designed to be indifferent to values, but Indigenous knowledge seeks to reinsert them.
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Commentary: Maine will be a valuable partner to an independent Greenland
The world’s largest island is in the process of seceding from Denmark. Some Mainers will have front-row seats to this instructive process.
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Shaker Village hosts first Wabanaki Marketplace since pandemic hit
More than 40 Wabanaki artists will convene in New Gloucester for a marketplace that is the meeting of two communities working to preserve their cultures and traditions.
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Indigenous leader inspires an Amazon city to grant personhood to an endangered river
The Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim approved a law that designates the Komi Memem River ‘as a living entity and subject to rights.’