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...following piece is drawn from a visit with a family on the Passamaquoddy Reservation on the Canadian border in Maine. The Passamaquoddy, along with the Penobscot tribe, are now suing to regain possession of more than half the land of the state of Maine...
...Indians in Mashpee, on Cape Cod, are now in court seeking to regain some of the land they lost to the white man centuries ago. Another group of Wampanoags on Cape Cod obtained some tribal land by concession from their town's government, and the Passamaquodies along with the Penobscot tribe are suing Maine for nearly half the state...
Spokesmen for the plaintiff Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, their lawyers, and representatives of the Interior and Justice departments attended the largely ceremonial session...
...land-claim cases are all in the East. The million or so non-Indian inhabitants of Maine seemed challenged at first by the land claims of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, whose target area embraced 12.5 million acres. The claim remains the largest of those pending, even though the Indians have reduced their target to some 8 million sparsely settled acres. Fully as disturbing as the claim, as some down-Easters see it, is the fact that the Indians have the active backing of the U.S. Justice Department. Actually, Justice has no choice. In a 1974 case brought...
...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...