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Maine Officials Block Penobscot Bingo Upgrade—Again

Gale Courey Toensing

June 18, 2013

Controversy Flares over Role of State-Contracted Company Although Maine officials are not renowned for their expertise in gaming machine technology, they have blocked a bill which ...

Best Indian Food 2013: Smothered Muskrat, Tail Off, Teeth Showing

Jackleen de la Harpe

May 21, 2013

In Indian country, frybread, Indian tacos, curly fries and pizza have become as “traditional” as the dancing and socializing of annual pow wows and celebrations...

Day of Prayer to Precede Seating of Wabanaki-Maine's Truth and Reconciliation Commissioners

Gale Courey Toensing

February 04, 2013

When the Wabanaki tribes and the State of Maine signed an agreement in the spring of 2011 to create a Maine/Wabanaki Truth and Reconciliation Process to heal the past abuses of Ind...

Penobscot Nation Sues State Over Settlement-Protected Hunting and Fishing RightsPenobscot Nation Sues State Over Settlement-Protected Hunting and Fishing Rights

Gale Courey Toensing

November 21, 2012

The Penobscot Indian Nation has sued the State of Maine over its assertion that the nation has jurisdiction and regulatory authority over hunting and fishing only on its reservatio...

Maine Denies Tribe Has Sustenance Fishing Rights

Gale Courey Toensing

September 10, 2007

INDIAN ISLAND, Maine–At the same time that a federal appeals court issued a decision giving the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) authority over water quality on t...

Wabanaki, State of Maine, Team Up to Stop Abuse of Indian Foster Children

Gale Courey Toensing

August 15, 2011

When Denise Yarmal Altvater talks about the abuse she and others suffered as Indian children in foster care in Maine, the stories are so painful to hear that it is impossible to im...

Wabanaki Tribes, Maine Sign Historic Foster Care TRC

Gale Courey Toensing

June 08, 2011

Penobscot Indian Nation Chief Kirk Francis (right) presented Maine Gov...

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Maine Officials Block Penobscot Bingo Upgrade—Again

Best Indian Food 2013: Smothered Muskrat, Tail Off, Teeth Showing

Day of Prayer to Precede Seating of Wabanaki-Maine's Truth and Reconciliation Commissioners

Penobscot Nation Sues State Over Settlement-Protected Hunting and Fishing RightsPenobscot Nation Sues State Over Settlement-Protected Hunting and Fishing Rights

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