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  • Published
    July 13, 2014

    Bombshells, compromises greet an unfolding crisis

    1976 to 1980 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A Passamaquoddy Indian pauses in contemplation at the edge of Long Lake on Peter Dana Point in Indian Township recently. Stakes were high for Maine’s tribes and the state alike in the developments that preceded the historic Indian land […]

  • Published
    July 12, 2014

    Tribe resists injustices, in and out of court settings

    1968 to 1976 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer Just off Route 1 in Indian Township, this gravel pile, now a grass-covered mound, is where a group of Passamaquoddy sat in protest in 1964 to stop a white man from building a road on reservation land. The arrests […]

  • Published
    July 11, 2014

    Convict goes, files stay, and land claims case advances

    February 1971 to May 1976 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer An “open” flag flies above a storefront in Eastport, not far from where the Passamaquoddy’s attorney Don Gellers had his office in the early 1960s, before his former legal intern, Tom Tureen, took over as the tribe’s […]

  • Published
    July 10, 2014

    Tribe’s attorney tries to appeal, but hurdles prove too high

    March 1969 to May 1971 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A pinhole camera captures vegetation growing from a basketball court at the Passamaquoddy’s Pleasant Point reservation in Washington County. Forty years ago, the tribe’s attorney, Don Gellers, faced an uphill fight as he tried to appeal his […]

  • Published
    July 9, 2014

    Evidence emerges, lending credence to conspiracy

    1969 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A fallen leaf, captured by a pinhole camera, appears almost animal-like on a road through Peter Dana Point in Indian Township. In the late 1960s, the tribe’s attorney, Don Gellers, was appealing his conviction on the drug charge that had gotten […]

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  • Published
    July 8, 2014

    The Eastport sting: Tribe’s attorney comes home to cuffs

    March 10, 1968 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A woman walks past the Eastport house that Don Gellers called home when he represented the Passamaquoddys in the 1960s. Gellers was arrested here in 1968, right after filing a $150 million land claims suit for the tribe, on […]

  • Published
    July 7, 2014

    ‘All the Passamaquoddy want is what belongs to them’

    March 8, 1968 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A dirt road leads into the woods in Indian Township, one of two Passamaquoddy reservations in Washington County. After years of research, an attorney representing the tribe in the mid-1960s believed he had found the way forward in a […]

  • Published
    July 6, 2014

    Against police, in court, tribe’s stuck on losing side

    September 3, 1967 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer An image created with a pinhole camera shows the shoreline off Pleasant Point in Down East Maine. Late in the summer of 1967, a routine traffic stop on the causeway leading to the reservation escalated into a violent conflict […]

  • Published
    July 5, 2014

    The Passamaquoddy’s land claim case takes shape

    1967 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A stand of trees is captured by a pinhole camera at Indian Township in eastern Maine. A 1794 treaty with Massachusetts deeded thousands of acres to the Passamaquoddy people. This treaty would serve as the foundation of the land claims case […]

  • Published
    July 4, 2014

    Passamaquoddy’s legal champion becomes a target

    1964 to 1966 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer An antique truck steers past the Custom House in Eastport early on April 30. Some leaders and residents of the nation’s easternmost city – and elsewhere in Maine – took steps to retaliate against a young attorney when he […]