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...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...
...LAST YEAR. For in February, 1975, a federal judge ruled that the Nonintercourse retained more than symbolic value. He awarded the Indians $300 million in unpaid back rent on 12 million acres of north and central Maine. The judge ruled that the area was the legal possession of the Penobscot and the Passamaquoddy, a small tribe that had joined in the 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...