U & D

Think for a moment about governments in distress, globally. There are contested elections, civil wars, usurpations of power, repressed and unrepresented populations, revolutions, invasions, rampant fraud, tyrannical leaders, cartels and pirates.  Within Maine itself, tribal-state relations have, over the last year, come unraveled, a situation  documented in MITSC’s archive of News.
The turmoil of nationhood [...]

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I read, and filed away somewhere, a recent Maine ruling (by whom?) that would make it possible for the Maliseet band to have their own court. At the time, my students were reading The Heart of a Chief, in which the tribal police are minor characters. How does law enforcement work on the reservations? they [...]

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