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December 17th, 2015 | Tags: Janet Mills, Kirk Francis, William Schneider | Category: Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Features, First Nations, Legal, Maine, News, Penobscot Nation, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters, Statewide, Towns, other, United States | December 15, 2015 | by Kevin Miller | Portland Press Herald
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But U.S. District Judge George Singal clarifies that Penobscot tribal members’ sustenance fishing rights extend throughout the main stem of the Penobscot River.
A federal judge has ruled that the Penobscot Nation’s reservation does not extend to the waters of the Penobscot River, but the tribe’s members can conduct sustenance fishing on the river’s main stem. This is the East Branch. […]
Continue reading Judge rules Penobscot Nation reservation does not include river’s waters
September 25th, 2015 | Tags: Janet Mills, sunlight media collective | Category: Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Events, Features, First Nations, Maine, Multimedia, News, Penobscot Nation, Resources, Resources: Videos, Statewide, United States, Video | Indian Island, ME: On Friday, Sunlight Media Collective released
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The Penobscot: Ancestral River, Contested Territory,
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a documentary film that explores the conflict between the state of Maine and the Penobscot Nation over contested river territory. Spanning from the 1700’s to the present-day legal battle of Penobscot Nation v. Mills, the film illustrates the Penobscots’ centuries-long fight to retain their territory and their inherent, treaty-reserved sustenance fishing rights for future generations. […]
Continue reading Sunlight Media Collective Releases Documentary on the Battle Over Contested Penobscot River Territory
June 8th, 2015 | Tags: Janet Mills, Justice for the River, Maria Girouard, Penobscot | Category: Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Features, First Nations, Grassroots Movements, Legal, News, Penobscot Nation, Report, Resources, Resources: Research, Reports, Alternatives | By Maria Girouard – Penobscot historian.
Panawapskewi (“Penobscot people”) are the indigenous people of this territory, and have nurtured a relationship with and maintained a presence on the Penobscot River for thousands of years. We are an ancient riverine people who have survived enormous losses as a result of colonization – displacement of our ancestors, destruction of our fisheries, degradation of the Water, deforestation of traditional hunting grounds, and disruption in our traditional form of governance.
A Colonial […]
Continue reading The Historical Continuum: WE ARE ALL PARTICIPANTS IN AN AGE-OLD CLASH OF CULTURES
March 21st, 2015 | Tags: DEP, Department of Environmental Protection, environmental protection agency, EPA, Janet Mills, Penobscot, Penobscot Nation | Category: Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Features, First Nations, Legal, Maine, News, Penobscot Nation, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters, Statewide, United States | Link to Original Article
The state contests the agency’s authority to order stricter pollution limits to ensure sustenance fishing is safe. By Colin Woodard Staff Writer | Portland Press Herald cwoodard@pressherald.com | @WoodardColin | 207-791-6317
Maine plans to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a ruling intended to ensure that members of Maine’s Indian tribes can safely eat large quantities of fish for sustenance.
The move, disclosed in a letter this […]
Continue reading Maine to sue EPA over tribal water pollution decision
March 17th, 2015 | Tags: DEP, Department of Environmental Protection, environmental protection agency, EPA, Indian Claims Settlement Act, Janet Mills, John Banks, Land Claims Settlement Act, Orono, Penobscot Nation | Category: Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Features, First Nations, Grassroots Movements, Legal, Maine, News, Penobscot Nation, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters, Towns, other, United States | Nok-Noi Ricker | BDN Orono resident and Penobscot Indian Nation member Maria Girouard speaks to the Orono Community Development Committee about withdrawing from a lawsuit the Penobscot have against the state over tribal waters. “I have a sense you don’t really understand the severity of the decision,” she told council members. “I’ve spent the good part of a year or so [educating people] and nobody has any idea that the state government is in this fight with the […]
Continue reading Orono panel endorses withdrawal from Penobscot Nation water rights lawsuit
February 23rd, 2015 | Tags: Bourque, Janet Mills, Penobscot | Category: Community Rights, East-West Corridor, First Nations, Legal, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, Penobscot Nation, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters | February 23, 2015 | Portland Press Herald | Letter to the Editor
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Thank you for publishing Nickie Sekera’s column regarding the Penobscots’ fight to retain their authority over the Penobscot River (“Maine Voices: State should drop lawsuit that would grab river from Penobscot Nation,” Feb. 17).
Her column points out a number of problems with the state’s claims to have jurisdiction, and it […]
Continue reading LTE: Maine has no grounds to take river from Penobscots
February 17th, 2015 | Tags: Janet Mills, Nickie Sekera, Penobscot Nation, Penobscot River | Category: Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Features, First Nations, Legal, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, Maine, News, Penobscot Nation, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters, Statewide, United States | The Penobscots are an ancient river-based people. Taking away their waterway is cultural theft.
FRYEBURG — In 2012, then-Attorney General William Schneider, on behalf of the state of Maine, initiated a dubious claim against the Penobscot Nation, challenging their rights to the river water on their reservation. The Penobscot were left no choice but to defend their territory through legal channels.
Schneider’s successor, Janet Mills, is continuing the litigation process with the backing of powerful corporate […]
Continue reading Maine Voices: State should drop lawsuit that would grab river from Penobscot Nation
July 15th, 2014 | Tags: Janet Mills, Maine AG, Maine Attorney General, Maine DEP, Passamaquoddy, Patricia Aho, Penobscot, Penobscot Nation | Category: Action Alerts, Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Features, Maine, News, Report, Resources, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters, Resources: Research, Reports, Alternatives, Towns, other, United States | The indigenous peoples who have lived in what is now called “Maine” for over 10,000 years, are under attack by the State of Maine. The fishing rights of the Passamaquoddy and the Penobscots, and agreements recognizing the tribes as sovereign nations, are being attacked or denied by lawmakers in the Maine State Legislature, Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Patricia Aho. This is what genocide looks like today.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the land […]
Continue reading Indigenous People in “Maine” are under attack by the State
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