Word: penobscot
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...cache was the 1794 treaty that her ancestors had struck with Massachusetts; in it, they ceded virtually all their land to the state. The find set off what has since become one of the largest Indian land claims in modern U.S. history. The 3,500 Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians in what is now Maine are fighting to get title to as much as half the entire state, which they claim was wrongly taken from them. Last week the Maine Indians moved a big step closer to success when the Federal Government announced that it would back their claim in both...
...gained a national reputation as the first Watergate special prosecutor, will "serve in a senior consulting capacity" to the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy tribes, Thomas Tureen, the NARF attorney coordinating the Maine Indians' legal team, said yesterday. Cox's duties will include all litigation and dealings with the federal government and the state of Maine, Tureen added...
...owns a summer home, pasture and woodlands at Penobscot Bay, on the fringe of the Indian claims he is pressing...
...governors of the Passamaquoddy tribe and the Penobscot nation said that Cox will serve as a consultant on litigation brought by, or on behalf of the Indians, as well as on other matters relating to the land claim suit...
...PENOBSCOT and Passamaquoddy suit raises several tricky issues that have long lurked in the shadows of the American historical drama, but have never really gained center stage attention. Critics of the U.S. reservation program have compared it to the South African homeland policy. As in South Africa, reservations were begun to provide the federal government with ways of simply removing Native Americans from the political mainstream. In recent years it has yielded the reservations more and more sovereignty, so that today many tribes have the power to tax, to license and to set and enforce laws for all reservation residents...