The MITSC Library

Post-Settlement Jurisdiction & Tribal Sovereignty Cases

At Loggerheads - The State of Maine and the Wabanaki

1997-01-15

January 15, 1997

MITSC Reports

Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians v. Boyce, 688 A.2d 908 (Me. 1997)

1997-01-06

January 6, 1997

Post-Settlement Jurisdiction & Tribal Sovereignty Cases

Passamaquoddy v. State of Maine 75 F.3d 784 (1996)

1996-02-09

February 9, 1996

Post-Settlement Jurisdiction & Tribal Sovereignty Cases

Maine Indian Claims Settlement: Concepts, Context, and Perspectives

1995-02-14

February 14, 1995

MITSC Reports

(Federal) Aroostook Band of Micmacs Settlement Act

1991-11-26

November 26, 1991

(Federal) Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians Supplementary Claims Settlement Act of 1986

Mi'kmaq Issues

1986-10-27

October 27, 1986

Penobscot Nation v. Stilphen 461 A.2d 478 (Me. 1983)

1983-06-07

June 7, 1983

Post-Settlement Jurisdiction & Tribal Sovereignty Cases

Cultural Protection

U.S. Senate Hearings on the Proposed Settlement of Maine Indian Land Claims

1980-07-02

July 2, 1980

Report, Hearing Transcript and Related Memoranda of the Joint Select Committee on Indian Land Claims, Part 1

1980-05-02

May 2, 1980

Report, Hearing Transcript and Related Memoranda of the Joint Select Committee on Indian Land Claims, Part 2

1980-05-02

May 2, 1980

State v. Dana, 404 A.2d 551 (Me. 1979)

1979-07-03

July 3, 1979

Criminal Justice

Bottomly v. Passamaquoddy Tribe, 599 F.2d 1061 (1st Cir. 1979)

Land Claims Litigation

1979-05-17

May 17, 1979

Jt. Tribal Council Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton, 528 F.2d 370 (1st Cir. 1975)

Land Claims Litigation

1975-12-23

December 23, 1975

Joint Tribal Council of Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton - U.S. District Court, 1975

1975-02-11

February 11, 1975

Federal and State Services and the Maine Indian

Land Claims Litigation

1974-12-02

December 2, 1974

A Compilation of Laws Pertaining to Indians. State of Maine.

1973-01-01

January 1, 1973

Governor's Task Force on Human Rights

1968-07-10

July 10, 1968

State v. Newell, 1892

1892-04-19

April 19, 1892

Murch v. Tomer, 1842

1842-06-15

June 15, 1842

Treaty between the Passamaquoddy Tribe & The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1794

1794-09-29

September 29, 1794

Non-Intercourse Act (1790)

Treaties

1790-07-22

July 22, 1790

Non-MICSA Federal Statutes, Regulations, & Policies

Letter from George Washington to the Chiefs of the Passamaquoddy Indians, 24 December 1776

1776-12-24

December 24, 1776

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Treaty of Watertown

1776-07-19

July 19, 1776

Phips Bounty Proclamation

Treaties

1755-11-03

November 3, 1755

Bylaws of the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission

MITSC Organizational Materials

MITSC By-Laws

Work Plan for 2021-2022

MITSC Organizational Materials

MITSC Work Plans

MITSC Analysis of LDs 72, 748 and 584

Fisheries

MITSC Fishing Rules

MIA in 2011 A legislative analysis of bills conferring aboriginal rights to the Wesget Sipu

MITSC Fishing Rules

Fisheries

MITSC Reports

State Recognition of Tribes

MITSC Testimony LD 1456 An Act Regarding the Right of Native Americans to be Issued Hunting, Fishing

Hunting

Fisheries

Analysis of the MIA’s (30 MRSA §6201 et. seq.) Conformance with the UNDRIP

MITSC Testimony

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

Preliminary Report of the Wabanaki Studies Commission

Wabanaki Studies

Different Version/Bills of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act: March 1977 to October 1980

Native American Sovereignty in Maine

The Sovereignty of Indian Nations in Maine

Three Commentaries on the Brimley Article

PL, c. 708 LD 2145 An Act Concerning the Taking of Marine Resources by Members of the Passamaquoddy

Saltwater Fishing

(Federal) Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act

(Maine) Micmac Settlement Act

Maine Indian Claims Settlement

Mi'kmaq Issues

(Federal) Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980

Maine Indian Claims Task Force

Task Force on Changes to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Implementing Act

O'Toole/Tureen 1971 Law Review Article- State Power and the Passamaquoddy Tribe: A Gross National Hypocrisy?

A Reason to Revisit Maine's Indian Claims Settlement Acts: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

The Maine Indian Land Claim Settlement: A Personal Recollection

Maine Resolution on UNDRIP (2008)

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

Executive Order Recognizing the Special Relationship Between the State of Maine and the Sovereign American Native Tribes Located Within the State of Maine

State of Maine Joint Resolution in Support of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People

The Drafting and Enactment of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act (2017)

The Growing List of Reasons to Amend the Maine Indian Jurisdictional Agreement

Good Alliances Make Good Neighbors: The Case for Tribal-State-Federal Watershed Partnerships, by Keith Porter, Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol.16:Iss. 3, Article 3, 2007

Whose Standards Control? Maine v. Mc Carthy and the Federal, State, and Tribal Battle Over Water Quality Regulation, by Joseph Mortelliti, Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2017

Francis V: Maine Law Court Says Tribe Had Exclusive Jurisdiction, Wabanaki Legal News, Spring Ed. 2009

Was the "S" for Silent?: The Maine Indian Land Claims and Senator Edmund S. Muskie, by Joseph Hall, Maine History, Volume , Number 1, 2016

One Nation, Under Fraud: A Remonstrance, by Loring Mehnert & Gousse, The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations, March 2022

A Single Penny, An Inch of Land, or an Ounce of Sovereignty: The Problem of Tribal Sovereignty and Water Quality Regulation Under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act

Indigenous Voices Charting a Course Beyond the Bicentennial, by Gail Dana-Sacco, Maine Policy Review, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2020

The Original Meaning and Intent of the Maine Indian Land Claims: Penobscot Perspectives, by Maria Girouard, Masters Thesis, University of Maine, May 2012

Preemption, Commandeering, and the Indian Child Welfare Act, by Matthew Fletcher and Randall Khalil, 2022 Wisconsin Law Review, 1199

In Re Children Of Shirley T. (2019)

In Re Trevor I (2009)

In Re Radience K (2019)

In Re Children Of Mary J (2019)

In Re Children Of Michelle C (2021)

Maine Constitution, Art. X, Sec. 5- Obligations of the State to the Indians

Tribal-State Collaboration Policies

Treaties

Maine Constitution

Biennial State and Tribal Reports on Tribal-State Collaboration

MITSC Review of Offshore Wind Power Proposals

Regulatory Rules & Decisions

Violations of MITSC Fishing Regulations

MITSC Fishing Rules

District Court Record

Maine Indian Claims Settlement Legislative History

Mobile Gaming by Federally Recognized Tribes

Regulatory Rules & Decisions

Tribal-State Collaboration Act

Out of the Woods: The Making of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act

Maine v. Johnson: A Step in the Wrong Direction

Penobscot Nation v. Mills: First Circuit Dodges the Indian Canon of Construction to Diminish the Water Rights of the Penobscot Nation

Maine Attorney General Letter and Opinion Re: Regulatory Jurisdiction on the Penobscot River

Moor v. Veazie, 32 Me. 343 (1850)

Veazie v. Moor, 55 U.S. 568 (1852) Supreme Court Decision