DoomsdaysCW<p>The final <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/APCAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APCAW</span></a> presentation is Thursday, July 12th. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/basketmaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basketmaker</span></a> and founding director of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheresaSecord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheresaSecord</span></a> will be the guest speaker.</p><p>APCAW was kind enough to provide me with a link to last week's video and a PDF guide from the conference. I will be looking through the guide and will post about some of the key points at a later date.</p><p>Even though the conference is free, pre-registration is required.</p><p>To register:<br><a href="https://maineaudubon.org/events/everything-ash-webinar-series-june12/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">maineaudubon.org/events/everyt</span><span class="invisible">hing-ash-webinar-series-june12/</span></a></p><p>Link to June 5th presentation video (including the bit I missed with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RichardSilliboy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardSilliboy</span></a>):<br><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/n63rnkAomz4AitHdAfBRC1hbSMCS2fuFUrQ7HU2UfP5gmrJiXoLREHE5UePF9EWU.TQktDNJCVGQMJjfu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/n63r</span><span class="invisible">nkAomz4AitHdAfBRC1hbSMCS2fuFUrQ7HU2UfP5gmrJiXoLREHE5UePF9EWU.TQktDNJCVGQMJjfu</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EmeraldAshBorer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmeraldAshBorer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AshTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AshTrees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanBasketry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanBasketry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousStewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousStewardship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InvasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InvasiveSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EAG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EAG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingNature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TIK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Basketry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Basketry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiConfederacy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanakik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanakik</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiAlliance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineFirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineFirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineWoods</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalEcologicalKnowledgeStewards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalEcologicalKnowledgeStewards</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>With everything that's going on with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MemoryHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MemoryHole</span></a>, I suggest everyone archive any articles of interest from US government websites -- while you still can! I found this gem -- and archived it!</p><p>Designing Tools and Networks to Support <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> Adaptive Capacity for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a></p><p>By Climate Adaptation Science Centers December 31, 2020</p><p>"Wabanaki Tribal Nations (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maliseet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maliseet</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Micmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Micmac</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a>) and other Tribal Nations in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NortheastCASC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NortheastCASC</span></a> region will face a disproportionate impact from climate change. These impacts will affect resources such as forestry products, fish, game, wild crops, and water that are important to tribal economies and well-being. To combat this, varying levels of tribal community preparedness and the ability to build effective adaptive capacity to extreme events will be crucial for future resiliency efforts. Furthermore, there is a pressing need to work with partners who have a variety of backgrounds to plan, strategize, build and implement resiliency initiatives in tribal communities and identify innovative ways that integrate local knowledge, technology, and science in a manner that traditional and cultural identities are tied. </p><p>"Using Indigenous Research Methods, Native American Programs at the University of Maine will align research questions, data collection methods, outputs, and research protocols with Wabanaki people, knowledge, and values to build a regional tribal network for climate change adaptation and create a Wabanaki Climate Adaptation and Adaptive Management Workbook. This project will work with and inform a Regional Climate Change Tribal Network to identify research and output goals and objectives using indigenous values and science related to both the network building and the Workbook. </p><p>"The Regional Network will consist of a diverse group of collaborators representing tribal harvesters, tribal environmental staff, intertribal and regional government entities, academic staff and tribal scholars from the University of Maine, and tribal elders and language speakers from each community to integrate a framework that will include indigenous and traditional knowledge, culture, language and history into the adaptation planning process. The primary output of this work, a Climate Adaptation and Adaptive Management Workbook, will identify examples of culturally appropriate adaptative management in responding to climate change, and identify tools for future Wabanaki Tribal leaders and communities to respond to future climate changes."</p><p><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-adaptation-science-centers/science/designing-tools-and-networks-support-wabanaki" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usgs.gov/programs/climate-adap</span><span class="invisible">tation-science-centers/science/designing-tools-and-networks-support-wabanaki</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/ssSKw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/ssSKw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiConfederacy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChangeAdaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChangeAdaptation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TIK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConservationLawFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConservationLawFoundation</span></a> appeal to stop <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidgeLandfill</span></a> expansion </p><p>Maine Public | By Carol Bousquet<br>Published November 13, 2024 </p><p>"The Penobscot Nation and Conservation Law Foundation have filed an appeal in Superior Court to stop the expansion of the Juniper Ridge Landfill in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OldTownMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OldTownMaine</span></a>.</p><p>"In October the state concluded that the expansion was in the public's interest and set several conditions that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Casella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Casella</span></a> Waste Management must meet to move forward with the project.</p><p>"Alexandra St. Pierre of the Conservation Law Foundation said the expansion runs contrary to the state's waste management goals, which prioritize reduction of waste volume and using <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landfills</span></a>.</p><p>"'Our goal here is to ensure that the decision is consistent with environmental justice and with the solid waste hierarchy as the law requires,' St. Pierre said.</p><p>"The Penobscot Nation and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CLF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLF</span></a> said that in its finding, the state failed to guarantee the safety of residents and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a>.</p><p>"They argue that harmful exposure to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a> in the landfill's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/leachate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leachate</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirPollution</span></a> and contamination of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotRiver</span></a> will all increase.</p><p>"'And we're really hoping we'll get adequate consideration for the issues that we raised and that the people actually themselves are considered and that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> is implemented,' St. Pierre said.</p><p>"The DEP said it is unable to comment on pending litigation."</p><p><a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/courts-and-crime/2024-11-13/penobscot-nation-and-conservation-law-foundation-appeal-to-stop-juniper-ridge-landfill-expansion" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mainepublic.org/courts-and-cri</span><span class="invisible">me/2024-11-13/penobscot-nation-and-conservation-law-foundation-appeal-to-stop-juniper-ridge-landfill-expansion</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineDEP</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiConfederacy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndianIsland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineEnvironmentalNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineEnvironmentalNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SandDune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SandDune</span></a> Vote:<br>Some Tribal Perspectives on<br>Proposed Wind Port on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wahsumkik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wahsumkik</span></a> </p><p>“..For both <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> people and non Wabanaki people...It has a great amount of history. It's ecologically sensitive and important to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a> of our coast...” - Darren Ranco,<br>PhD, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> Citizen, Professor at the University of Maine, MITSC Commissioner, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCouncil</span></a> committee member.</p><p>April, 2024</p><p>"Sears Island (known also by the Penobscot name Wahsumkik) is the largest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/undeveloped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>undeveloped</span></a> island within the state and one of the largest on the eastern seaboard, and considered important to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirdMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirdMigration</span></a>. Construction of a wind port operation would require the destruction of 70 acres of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forest</span></a> and would impact a yet to be assessed area of marine eel grass. The destruction of a sand dune was<br>reportedly missed in a first assessment of the site, thus prompting the Governor's bill."</p><p><a href="https://allianceforsearsisland.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tribal-perspective.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">allianceforsearsisland.org/wp-</span><span class="invisible">content/uploads/2024/04/tribal-perspective.pdf</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectSearsIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectSearsIsland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WindTerminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindTerminal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SandDunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SandDunes</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Searsport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Searsport</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectWahsumkik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectWahsumkik</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MackPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MackPoint</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wahsumkik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wahsumkik</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndangeredSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndangeredSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheDunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheDunes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GovernorJanetMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GovernorJanetMills</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiAlliance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wassumkeag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wassumkeag</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WednesdaysForWildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WednesdaysForWildlife</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Monday Sand Dune Vote: Some Tribal Perspectives on Proposed Wind Port on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wahsumkik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wahsumkik</span></a></p><p> “..For both <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> people and non Wabanaki people…It has a great amount of history. It’s ecologically sensitive and important to the ecosystem of our coast…” <br> – Darren Ranco, PhD, Penobscot Citizen, Professor at the University of Maine, MITSC Commissioner, Maine Climate Council committee member.<br> <br>via Sunlight Media, April 2, 2024</p><p>"On Monday, the full Maine Legislature is expected to vote on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LD2266" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LD2266</span></a>, 'An Act Regarding Offshore Wind Terminals Located in Coastal Sand Dune Systems.' The bill, put forth by the Governor’s office five days before a public hearing, seeks to exempt a sand dune on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SearsIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SearsIsland</span></a>, in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Searsport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Searsport</span></a>, from current state <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> protections to explicitly allow for the advancement of an offshore wind port and staging area on the island. Governor Mills announced last month that Sears Island is the state’s 'preferred site' for the major development, instead of the already industrialized <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MackPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MackPoint</span></a>, also in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Searsport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Searsport</span></a>.</p><p>"Sears Island (known also by the Penobscot name Wahsumkik) is the largest undeveloped island within the state and one of the largest on the eastern seaboard, and considered important to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bird</span></a> migration. Construction of a wind port operation would require the destruction of 70 acres of#forest and would impact a yet to be assessed area of marine eel grass. The destruction of a sand dune was reportedly missed in a first assessment of the site, thus prompting the Governor’s bill.</p><p>"At the public hearing on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LD2266" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LD2266</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a> Representative to the Maine Legislature <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AaronDana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AaronDana</span></a>, expressed opposition to the bill and deep concern for the unstudied impacts of off shore wind operations and the siting of a staging development and port on Wahsumkik/Sears Island.</p><p>"'These projects are often driven by the profit motives that prioritize corporate interests over the well being of the Indigenous people of Maine and the surrounding communities of non-tribal members alike….The push for the offshore wind project energies, the offshore wind energy must be critically examined from a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Native" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Native</span></a> perspective, taking into account the profound impacts on our environment, our culture, and our communities.'<br> <br>"'The installation and the operation of the offshore wind turbines often encroach upon sacred sites and areas of cultural significance. This project, especially for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> Tribal territory, these places hold deep spiritual value for our community and are integral to our cultural identity. The industrialization of these areas not only desecrates our sacred sites, but they also erode our cultural heritage and the connection to the land and the sea.'"</p><p>Information shared by Citizens To Protect Sears Island:</p><p>VOTE NO ON LD 2266<br>SEARS ISLAND is NOT the ONLY OPTION for OFFSHORE WIND.</p><p>1) There has been no environmental impact study for Sears Island, and available environmental assessments that support development of the Island. However multiple assessments are available that discourage port development of any kind on the Island.</p><p>2) Sears Island has been deemed to have significant ecological value, invaluable capacity for future carbon sequestration, as well as many rare species, which are all necessary for future climate resilience. [The Resilient Land Mapping Tool, The Nature Conservancy, TNC Screenshots 2010, TNC Screenshots 2050]</p><p>3) Mack Point is the fastest option to permit and construct a wind port in Penobscot Bay that meets the 100-acre size requirement. Environmental permits will be granted without delay as the site is industrialized with limited ecological value. If expansion is required over time, collaboration may occur with the old mill site in Bucksport for smaller components, economically uplifting the entire region.</p><p>4) The MDOT has not considered the most recent Sprague Energy site use proposal, but it is a further improvement of the Moffatt and Nichols Report of 2023.</p><p>5) Construction costs at Mack Point are equivalent, or less than Sears Island ($400 to $500 million). [Moffatt and Nichols Report 2023]. It is NOT TRUE that Sears Island will be cheaper to develop because the State owns the land. The State is not factoring in costs that will be associated with development or operation. For example, causeway expansion and mitigation for wetland loss.</p><p>6) Dredging needed at Mack Point is minimal compared to Sears Island, with less potential sediment contamination. [Moffatt and Nichols Report 2023], [2021 Maine DOT OSW port Infrastructure Feasibility Study – Concept Design Report 11-17-2021]</p><p>7) Developing Mack Point has strong support from the regional community.</p><p><a href="https://www.sunlightmediacollective.org/monday-sand-dune-vote-some-tribal-perspectives-on-proposed-wind-port-on-wahsumkik/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sunlightmediacollective.org/mo</span><span class="invisible">nday-sand-dune-vote-some-tribal-perspectives-on-proposed-wind-port-on-wahsumkik/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiAlliance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WindTurbines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindTurbines</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheForest</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>“This River is Our Relative” — a new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> documentary, coming soon!</p><p>Sunlight Media Collective February 2, 2024</p><p>"'This River is Our Relative' is an upcoming Sunlight Media Collective documentary about the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a>’s intrinsic connection to and tireless environmental stewardship of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotRiver</span></a>. The story is told through the voices of 24 Penobscots, who share a story of historical, physical, and spiritual connection to place; of cultural identity and survival. Their narratives are interwoven with a traditional <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> story about how The People and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Glouskap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glouskap</span></a> defeated a greedy monster frog, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Aklebemu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aklebemu</span></a>, who was hoarding all the water. This story parallels both historical and present day <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> concerns, and is also the Clan origin story for Penobscots. 'You can point to any aspect of our culture from a riverine perspective,' says Penobscot Cultural Dept. Director James E. Francis, Sr. </p><p>"'It is our responsibility to care for that River, for all of us,' explains Penobscot <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activist</span></a> and filmmaker <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DawnNeptuneAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DawnNeptuneAdams</span></a>. Despite many obstacles including ongoing territorial theft and a rapidly increasing number of pollutants, the Penobscot Nation and its people continue to demonstrate their commitment to protecting the health of their beloved Relative, the Penobscot River. 'I always come back to the water because that’s where I belong. It’s my Relative,' explains Penobscot Elder Kathy Paul, 'and I want to stay and support that Relative.'" </p><p>Link to trailer:<br><a href="https://vimeo.com/758792376" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vimeo.com/758792376</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.sunlightmediacollective.org/this-river-is-our-relative-a-new-penobscot-documentary-coming-soon/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sunlightmediacollective.org/th</span><span class="invisible">is-river-is-our-relative-a-new-penobscot-documentary-coming-soon/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiverKeepers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiverKeepers</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The Repatriation Project</p><p>Tribes in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn.</p><p>by Mary Hudetz and Ash Ngu<br>Dec. 4, 5 a.m. EST</p><p>"Donna Augustine was in tears as she read the letter from Harvard University that winter morning in 2013. Looking around the room inside an elementary school on Indian Island, Maine, she saw other elders and leaders from the four Wabanaki tribes were also devastated as they read that the university was denying their request to repatriate ancestral remains to their tribes.</p><p>"The Wabanaki tribal nations — an alliance of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maliseet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maliseet</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mikmaq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mikmaq</span></a> — wanted to rebury the ancestral remains. But Harvard’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeabodyMuseum</span></a> of Archaeology and Ethnology said, as it had in past years, that the tribes didn’t have enough evidence to show that they could be tied, through culture or lineage, to the ancestors whose remains the museum held. </p><p>"The denial felt like a rejection of Wabanaki identity for Augustine, a Mi’kmaq grandmother, who had spent years urging Harvard to release Native American remains.</p><p>"'Every one of us in that room was crying,' she recalled. 'We jumped through every hoop.'</p><p>"The group representing the only four tribal nations in present-day Maine had furnished a deeply researched report documenting their histories in the region, even sharing closely held stories passed down within their tribes from one generation to the next that told of their ancient ties to Maine’s lakes, islands and forests.</p><p>"Now they could see it hadn’t been enough for Harvard, which especially prized the remains of 43 ancestors buried for thousands of years near Maine’s Blue Hill Bay.</p><p>"Complicating matters for the tribes, another museum, the similarly named but smaller Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, housed on the campus of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PhillipsAcademy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhillipsAcademy</span></a>, a Massachusetts preparatory school, held items from the same ancient burial site.</p><p>"Instead of sending a letter as Harvard did, the Phillips Academy museum director, Ryan Wheeler, had asked to meet with the tribes. Seated at the table that morning, he was initially uncertain what he would do. He would later say that it became evident during the meeting that the tribes exhibited a strong connection to the ancestors they sought to claim, both from the report they had provided and their reaction to Harvard’s decision.</p><p>"He recalled leaving the meeting certain he would repatriate. 'There was really no question about it,' he later said.</p><p>"What the Wabanaki committee and Wheeler didn’t know, however, was just how hard Harvard would push back. In the two years that followed, the director of the Harvard museum went to surprising lengths to pressure Wheeler to reverse his decision.</p><p>"A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPublica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProPublica</span></a> investigation this year into repatriation has shown how some of the nation’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/elite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elite</span></a> museums have used their power and vast resources to delay returning ancestral remains and sacred objects under the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanGraves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanGraves</span></a> Protection and Repatriation Act. By exploiting loopholes in the 1990 law, anthropologists overruled tribes’ evidence showing their ties to the oldest ancestral remains in museums’ collections. We’ve also shown that museums and universities have delayed repatriations while allowing destructive analyses — like DNA extractions — on ancestral remains over the objections of tribes.</p><p>"Harvard, where the remains of an estimated 5,500 Native Americans are stored at the Peabody Museum, used these loopholes over the span of three decades to prolong the Wabanaki tribes’ repatriation process while remaining in technical compliance with the 1990 law, our review found.</p><p>"For Augustine and her colleagues, few things were more frustrating than knowing that NAGPRA had empowered museums to decide whether Indigenous people had a valid connection to their ancestors. These were the same institutions that had collected the human remains and objects from ancestral burial sites. Despite NAGPRA’s intent to give Indigenous people say over ancestral remains, institutions still made the final decisions on whether to repatriate.</p><p>"'The wolves are in charge of how to deal with the sheep,' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarrellNewell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarrellNewell</span></a>, a former vice chief of the Passamaquoddy Tribe who helped create the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation Committee to accelerate negotiations with the institutions. 'It’s just not a good way.'</p><p>"Harvard in recent years has apologized and promised to speed repatriation, saying it aims to repatriate all <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> remains and the items once buried with them within the next three years and recently doubled staffing in the Peabody Museum’s repatriation office. However, the school has yet to return more than half of the human remains it reported holding under NAGPRA, according to federal data from November. Only two institutions, of the hundreds that must comply with NAGPRA, hold more human remains than Harvard."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-wabanaki-tribes-struggle-to-reclaim-ancestral-remains-from-harvard?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/inside-</span><span class="invisible">wabanaki-tribes-struggle-to-reclaim-ancestral-remains-from-harvard?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Repatriation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Repatriation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiConfederacy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HarvardUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HarvardUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Why you should tell your children about vanishing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fireflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fireflies</span></a></p><p>I’ll be telling my son stories about the wild lives that existed in the places we go before anyone thought to call them “Maine” or “California.” If he won’t inherit an ecosystem with all its parts, he’ll have a shot at reassembly.</p><p>Advice by Michael J. Coren, August 29, 2023</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a> is among the oldest continuous governments in the world. Some of its members still recall stories of Atlantic salmon filling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>’s rivers and of alewife, or river herring, swimming upriver by the uncounted millions, says Chuck Loring Jr., the Penobscot Nation’s director of natural resources. Last year, fewer than 1,400 salmon returned to the state.</p><p>"Loring, who manages forests, game and fisheries across 121,000 acres, doesn’t think in decades in his work. He looks back centuries. 'We have a seven-generation approach,' he says. Unlike most commercial timber harvesters, he’s aiming to create an old-growth forest like those that existed hundreds of years ago across Maine but now cover only 0.05 percent of the state.</p><p>"Instead of cutting trees every 30 to 40 years, Loring plans to grow them for a century or more. And he’s not optimizing for wood. 'We’re one of the biggest timber tribes,' says Loring, 'but the most highly regarded goal is water quality.'</p><p>"For the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a>, the goal is restoring a landscape and its inhabitants’ place in it — from fish to moose to future members of the Penobscot Nation. 'That’s one of our goals getting into the school, and talking about everything we do,' says Loring. 'The tribe has made ensuring a viable forest in the future the priority, even if we’re not generating income from the forest.'</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/29/shifting-baselines-maine-forests/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/climate-env</span><span class="invisible">ironment/2023/08/29/shifting-baselines-maine-forests/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SevenGenerations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SevenGenerations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineForests</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tribal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tribal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a> bill falters as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> lawmakers fail to override governor’s veto</p><p>By DAVID SHARP<br>Published 1:13 PM EDT, July 6, 2023</p><p>AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — "Maine lawmakers failed Thursday to override the governor’s veto of a bill that would have expanded the sovereignty of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> tribes in the state by ensuring more federal laws apply to them.</p><p>"It’s a defeat for the tribes, which are bound by a land claims settlement that puts them on different footing than the nation’s other 570 federally recognized tribes.</p><p>"Both chambers had voted to enact the bill with big-enough majorities to override the veto, but some House members backtracked under pressure by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills. She contends the bill was vague and would lead to lengthy and contentious litigation in coming years.</p><p>"But the tribes increasingly see [Gov Mills] as standing in the way of changes they say are necessary to improve their lives. Last week, Penobscot Nation Chief Kirk Francis said he thinks the governor wants 'to protect an old guard and old mindset' by maintaining the status quo. And Dana, the tribal representative, said Thursday that some of the governor’s comments about the legislation were 'dangerous and misleading.'</p><p>"A bill to provide full sovereignty to the tribes this session is being held over, meaning it’ll be dealt with by lawmakers next year.</p><p>"Tribal leaders were optimistic about the future.<br>"'We were never going to take a step backwards when it comes to our sovereignty. We’re always going to be taking a step forward,' Dana after the vote.</p><p>"Francis of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a> added: 'Though today was a loss on the floor of the House, we’re confident moving forward we will only gain greater support.'"</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineTribes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiConfederacy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maliseet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maliseet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineSettlementAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineSettlementAct</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> Legislature vote expands <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a> for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> tribes</p><p>Story by By DAVID SHARP, Associated Press, June 22, 2023</p><p>"Native American tribes in Maine took an important step toward greater sovereignty as the state Legislature voted to let most federal laws apply to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> tribes, putting them on the same footing as other federally recognized tribes across the country.</p><p>"Both the Maine House and Senate approved the bill with enough support [from both Democrats and Republicans] Wednesday to overcome a potential veto of the bill.</p><p>“Today signifies a landmark victory in the pursuit of Wabanaki self-determination," Penobscot Nation Chief Kirk Francis said Thursday in a statement. The Penobscot are one member of the Wabanaki Nations, which encompasses Indigenous peoples living in what is now Maine.</p><p>"Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has opposed the bill, sponsored by House Speaker <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RachelTalbotRoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RachelTalbotRoss</span></a>, expressing concerns that it could lead to confusion and lawsuits. Her office had no immediate comment on the legislative action.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tribes</span></a> in Maine are set apart from the other 570 federally recognized tribes across the country because of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act, which stipulates they’re bound by state law and treats tribal reservations much like municipalities. That 1980 settlement for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maliseet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maliseet</span></a>, along with a 1991 agreement for the Mi’kmaq, set the tribes apart from others in the country."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineSettlementAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineSettlementAct</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mikmaq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mikmaq</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maine-legislature-vote-expands-sovereignty-for-native-american-tribes/ar-AA1cTsDB?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a12572c5009845dbd3317f031419ff0a&ei=6" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ma</span><span class="invisible">ine-legislature-vote-expands-sovereignty-for-native-american-tribes/ar-AA1cTsDB?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a12572c5009845dbd3317f031419ff0a&ei=6</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> Tribes Make Case for Self-Determination in Historic Address Before Legislature </p><p>By Dan Neumann, March 22, 2023 </p><p>"For the first time in state history, leaders of all the Wabanaki Nations addressed both chambers of the Maine State Legislature on Thursday. They called for recognition in law and policy of Wabanaki inherent sovereignty. </p><p>"Underscoring a rift between the tribes and Gov. Janet Mills on the issue of tribal self-determination, the Democratic governor was not in attendance. In contrast, Congressman Jared Golden, a Democrat from Lewiston who sponsored federal legislation to give the tribes more rights, listened to the address from the floor of the Maine House. </p><p>"'The blood sweat and tears of our ancestors run through this land and it will continue to do so for generations to come,' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> Chief Kirk Francis said as part of a State of the Tribes address. 'We are not going anywhere. All we want is for the state government to break decisively from the past and join the era of self-determination for tribal nations that has proven so successful throughout the rest of the country.'</p><p>"'We are capable of self-governance and should be treated as partners rather than threats to the future of the state,' Francis added. 'We want a relationship with the state government that is based on mutual trust, fidelity and respect.'"</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maliseet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maliseet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mikmaq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mikmaq</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineTribes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiConfederacy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> </p><p>Read more: <a href="https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/wabanaki-tribes-make-case-for-self-determination-in-historic-address-before-legislature" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nativenewsonline.net/sovereign</span><span class="invisible">ty/wabanaki-tribes-make-case-for-self-determination-in-historic-address-before-legislature</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> tribes make <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a> call in first address in years</p><p> By Patrick Whittle, March 16, 2023</p><p>"Thursday's speech was preceded by a rally and tribal drumming at Maine State House. It was the second address of its kind, as the first State of the Tribes was held in March 2002. All five tribal speakers said the tribes need more autonomy from state government. They also touched on issues such as the need to improve tribal health care services, education and business growth."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maliseet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maliseet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mikmaq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mikmaq</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineTribes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/maine-tribes-make-sovereignty-call-in-first-address-in-years/ar-AA18Imj8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/us/maine-tr</span><span class="invisible">ibes-make-sovereignty-call-in-first-address-in-years/ar-AA18Imj8</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> leaders, allies gather in Augusta for 'Celebration of Rising Voices'</p><p>January 4, 2023</p><p>"At the Governor Hill Mansion in Augusta from 6 to 8 p.m., the Wabanaki Alliance is hosting a “Celebration of Rising Voices” event. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> Nation Tribal Ambassador, Maulian Dana said she hopes the event will sustain the goodwill between the alliance and legislators.</p><p>"Wabanaki Leaders argue that the tribal nations in Maine are denied benefits that many other tribes in the country possess. Tonight’s celebration serves to remind new legislators of that disparity and the progress made in the last session."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wabanaki-leaders-allies-gather-in-augusta-for-celebration-of-rising-voices/ar-AA15WqUn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wa</span><span class="invisible">banaki-leaders-allies-gather-in-augusta-for-celebration-of-rising-voices/ar-AA15WqUn</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>I just came across this article from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> REACH about an initiative to educate others about the truth behind Maine Claims Settlement Act. </p><p>TRUTH-TELLING INITIATIVE TO FOCUS ON MAINE INDIAN LAND CLAIMS</p><p>Beyond the Claims– Stories from the Land & the Heart </p><p>September 2022</p><p>Wabanaki REACH director, Maria Girouard: "I have witnessed changes brought about by the land claims, its impacts to my tribal community and how the land claims legislation has been used against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a> people for years. I am hopeful that this project will illuminate the human side of this story and lay a foundation for meaningful change based on truth and understanding. The story of the land claims is more than just legalese in legislative documents."<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wabanakireach.org/truth_telling_initiative_to_focus_on_maine_indian_land_claims" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wabanakireach.org/truth_tellin</span><span class="invisible">g_initiative_to_focus_on_maine_indian_land_claims</span></a></p>
Susanne Leist Author<p>Hi. I am an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paranormal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paranormal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suspense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Suspense</span></a>.<br>Join me for THE DEAD GAME SERIES as the dead walk the night & into the day, leading our heroines on a dangerous adventure from Florida to Quebec. While in MEET ME IN MAINE, a new set of heroines try to save their town from an evil curse. Learn of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> culture and their plight at the hands of the white man.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cozymystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cozymystery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paranormal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paranormal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
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