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PublishedJuly 20, 2014
Feds move in, Indian Township governor feels the heat
"I'm the new Don Gellers," says Bobby Newell, referring to the tribe's one-time attorney, who was run out of the country on a minor marijuana charge.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2014
Disagreement over powers pollutes state, tribal relations
Maine officials say the land claims settlement Act spells out and limits what the tribes oversees; the Passamaquoddy say those powers are in addition to their sovereign rights.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2014
The perils of placing trust ‘in the hands of the few’
Resource mismanagement leads the Bureau of Indian Affairs to suspend Passamaquoddy timber sales in 1993. And that was only the beginning.
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PublishedJuly 19, 2014
As reservation’s rule of law erodes, abuses thrive
In a sad irony, the Passamaquoddy are slipping into another legal breach, one made far wider by the actions of their own elected leaders.
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PublishedJuly 18, 2014
With no constitution, ‘a community … without rules’
1986 to 1993 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer St. Ann Church, in the village of Peter Dana Point in Indian Township, stands under a gray sky recently. Repeated attempts to enact a tribal constitution – a document that would have provided a legal foundation for the Passamaquoddy […]
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PublishedJuly 17, 2014
For some in tribe, no right to vote, nowhere to turn
September 1986 to June 1987 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer The Pleasant Point reservation is captured in the aperture of a pinhole camera. A legal challenge resulted after an unusual Passamaquoddy caucus initiative in 1986 left many members of the tribe stripped of their right to vote […]
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PublishedJuly 16, 2014
Land claims settlement bears a powerful curse
1983 to 1986 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A Passamaquoddy elder and a member of the joint tribal council sifts through stacks of petitions at Pleasant Point. in an unexpected development, an exception clause in the land claims settlement led to some uncertainty about which laws should […]
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PublishedJuly 14, 2014
The Indians’ trusted adviser capitalizes on his role
After winning the Maine tribes' land claims case, attorney Tom Tureen becomes a celebrity in Indian country.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2014
Big question looms: ‘Where would we go from here?’
1980 to 1982 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer This Indian heirloom, depicting a man at “the end of the trail,” was given to Victoria Boston, a Passamaquoddy, after her father died in 2006. The populations on the tribe’s two reservations grew sharply in the wake of the […]
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PublishedJuly 13, 2014
Bombshells, compromises greet an unfolding crisis
1976 to 1980 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A Passamaquoddy Indian pauses in contemplation at the edge of Long Lake on Peter Dana Point in Indian Township recently. Stakes were high for Maine’s tribes and the state alike in the developments that preceded the historic Indian land […]
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