On Thursday, March 16, the chiefs of the Wabanaki nations gathered before the Maine House of Representatives chamber to present a State of the Tribes address. This was the first time in Maine’s ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Native American tribes in Maine took an important step toward greater sovereignty as the state Legislature voted to let most federal laws apply to Wabanaki tribes, putting them ...

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine lawmakers failed Thursday to override the governor's veto of a bill that would have expanded the sovereignty of Native American tribes in the state by ensuring more federal laws ...

Maine lawmakers failed Thursday to override the governor's veto of a bill that would have expanded the sovereignty of Native American tribes in the state by ensuring more federal laws apply to them.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Officials with an American Indian tribe in Maine are resisting an initiative to impose the same restrictions on all elver fishermen, saying a cap on individual catches would ...

Several hundred people rallied on the state's fifth Indigenous Peoples Day in support of a statewide vote requiring tribal treaties to be restored to printed versions ...

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PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi'kmaq Nation's health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It's one of several sweat lodges on the tribe's ...

AUGUSTA, Maine - Wabanaki tribes in Maine now have more rights to prosecute certain crimes that occur on tribal lands. That includes recognizing the exclusive jurisdiction of the tribal courts of the ...