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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Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
Paddlers in birch bark canoes honor Wabanaki culture on Moosehead Lake
Over a dozen feather-light boats, built in the traditional Wabanaki style and known for their nimbleness, gathered at the Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Festival.
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Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Tribal online gaming bill clears hurdle in Maine House
The bill still faces additional votes, and the Mills administration opposed it during a public hearing in March.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Opinion: Return of land to Penobscot Nation will make history
Practicality, not politics, is the driving factor in acquiring and returning 30,000 acres to the tribe.
Posted inMaine, News
Penobscot Nation chief urges members to carry tribal IDs
The recommendation follows reports, many unverified, of immigration agents questioning tribal citizens across the country.
Posted inMaine, News
$17 million awarded to promote forest sustainability, carbon storage in Maine
Grants awarded by the U.S. Forest Service will pay for private landowners to adopt climate-friendly forestry practices and conserve old-growth forests for carbon storage and help the Penobscot Nation enter carbon market.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine DEP says expansion of state’s largest landfill would benefit public
The decision allows the state to apply to add 61 acres to the state-owned Juniper Ridge Landfill, which takes in 52% of the state’s waste.
Posted inMaine, News
Opening of Wabanaki welcome center near Katahdin delayed, but public will get a peek
The Tekαkαpimək Contact Station at Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument is open to visitors for limited hours this weekend.
Posted inTimes Record
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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Professor, tribal leader bring context to ‘First Thanksgiving’ story
The popularized version of the meal shared by Indigenous people and English settlers in 1621 is based on a real event, but also has fed into long-held myths about native people and colonialism, scholars say.