Joseph P. Kalt, principal co-author of a report by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development on the Wabanaki Nations, led a briefing on the report for the Maine Legislature. In a March 9 briefing to the Maine Legislature, a Harvard researcher told...
An article in The Conversation, an independent news organization, highlights elements of a recent report from the Harvard Kennedy School that determined the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act has seriously limited the economic growth potential of the Wabanaki Nations,...
Penobscot Nation Applauds President Biden’s Priorities to Focus on Cancer Research, Fight the Opioid Epidemic and Restore the “Made in America” Economy Reflecting the government-to-government relationship between the Penobscot Nation and the United States, Penobscot...
State and national news media published numerous stories about a statement issued Dec. 20 by the Wabanaki Alliance on the fate of a measure that would have placed Wabanaki Nations in Maine on equal footing as all other federally recognized tribes with regard to future...
Original press release produced by the Office of the Speaker of the House. AUGUSTA –Maine Speaker of the House Rachel Talbot Ross traveled to Aroostook, Penobscot and Washington counties this week to meet with Chiefs Rena Newell, William Nicholas, Edward Peter-Paul,...
The Wabanaki Alliance released the following statement in response to Sen. Angus King’s decision to block a bill that would have boosted economic development for rural Maine and Wabanaki Nations:Today leaders of the House and Senate announced they had reached a...
Original press release produced by the Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge, MA – A team of researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School today released a research report documenting the costs to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine—Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and...
(L-R) Chief Edward Peter Paul, Mi’kmaq Nation; Chief William Nicholas, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Motahkmikuk; Chief Clarissa Sabattis, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians; and Chief Kirk Francis, Penobscot Nation deliver testimony before a Congressional subcommittee...
