While no breakthroughs were reported, both sides agreed to work together during the upcoming legislative session.
Maine Tribes
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Maine voters restore tribal treaty language to printed constitution
Mainers cast their votes Tuesday on four proposed constitutional amendments, including a proposal to restore historical tribal treaty obligations to printed versions of the Maine Constitution.
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Tribal chief ousted as Gov. Mills awaits word on meeting with Native American leaders
The ouster happened as leaders of 4 tribes consider whether to meet the governor next month at the Blaine House for the first Tribal-State Summit spelled out in recent legislation.
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Wabanaki leaders, advocates rally outside the Maine State House for Question 6
Participants in the Indigenous Peoples Day rally call for expanded sovereignty rights for tribal communities and passage of a ballot question next month to restore treaty language to printed copies of the Maine Constitution.
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Questions 5 through 8: What you need to know about the proposed constitutional amendments
The 4 proposed amendments include Question 6, which would reverse a provision of the Maine Constitution that currently keeps a section on tribal obligations from being printed.
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Maine voters to decide whether to restore 19th century tribal obligations to the constitution
The proposal would restore language that has always applied, but was removed from printed versions of the Maine Constitution in 1876.
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Maine lawmakers fail to override governor’s veto of tribal bill
The House voted 84-57 in favor of overriding Gov. Janet Mills’ veto, which falls 10 votes short of the two-thirds support needed and sustains the veto.
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Legislative committee endorses Maine tribal rights bill
The 10-4 vote to allow the state’s Indigenous tribes to benefit from more federal laws comes despite a likely veto from Gov. Janet Mills.
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Douglas Rooks: Gov. Mills is stonewalling Maine’s tribes. She should reconsider
tribeOf all the issues that divide Gov. Janet Mills from most members of her own Democratic Party, none is more vexing, or seemingly inexplicable, than her dogged opposition to any substantive alteration of the Land Claims Settlement Act governing Maine’s relationship with its Indian tribes. The 1980 law has had vast and invidious consequences far […]
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Lawmakers work on bill to let Wabanaki tribes benefit from federal laws
The bill would grant the Wabanaki tribes in Maine to federal laws that benefit the nation’s 570 other federally recognized tribes.