Maine Tribes
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PublishedDecember 4, 2022
Big issues await legislators in new session, starting with heating Mainers’ homes
When it begins work this week, the 131st Legislature will dig into its first big test: a bipartisan deal on energy relief.
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PublishedNovember 30, 2022
Researchers are looking for lost graves at Native American boarding school
Children from over 40 tribes were brought from as far away as Idaho and Maine to the former Genoa Indian Industrial School in central Nebraska.
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PublishedNovember 9, 2022
Supreme Court justices seem to favor most of Native child welfare law
The justices heard more than 3 hours of arguments in a broad challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act, enacted in 1978 to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2022
James McCarthy: 40-year-old answers are out-of-step with what Mainers want for Wabanaki tribes
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2022
Prospects fade for federal bill to expand rights of Maine tribes
The House passed Rep. Jared Golden’s bill to automatically include Maine’s tribes in any new federal Indian laws, but it appears to have stalled in the Senate.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2022
Maine’s sports betting law going into effect, but you won’t be wagering anytime soon
Because of logistical hurdles, it will be at least until April – and likely far longer – before sports wagers will be placed in Maine.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2022
Rep. Golden’s bill to expand rights of Maine tribes passes U.S. House
Gov. Janet Mills opposes the measure by her fellow Democrat to automatically include Maine’s tribes in any new federal Indian laws.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2022
Mills asks Congress to delay action on Golden’s tribal equality bill
The measure would allow Maine tribes to benefit from new federal laws and programs, but the governor says the nature of Maine's 1980 land claims settlement means any changes should be negotiated with the state.
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PublishedMay 9, 2022
Letter: Contact congressional committee to support Maine tribes
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PublishedMay 2, 2022
Gov. Mills signs law legalizing sports betting; tribes get exclusive rights to online wagering
The law also reduces the tax burden on Maine's indigenous communities and creates a new collaboration process between the tribes and the state.