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I call for compliance with required teaching and I reject an approach to the law that suggests white people do not benefit; Wabanaki Studies is the most relevant synthesis of American democratic values for all Maine students.

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State Kathryn Walkiewicz in conversation with Lisa Brooks Thursday, April 6, 2023, at 7:00 pm ET Approximately 60 minutes. This hybrid program will be held in person at Antiquarian Hall and livestreamed to a virtual audience on YouTube. Advance registration is required for both. Closed

OLLIs University Days free program, “We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast,” will feature 19 events over five weeks, including lectures, walking tours, reading groups, art exhibitions and

Earth Matters: When is a trout a salmon and what difference does it make? — Published: 1/2/2021 1:41:10 PM When I was fly fishing for pink salmon some years ago in the Pacific Northwest, I hooked an enormous steelhead, which is a sea-run rainbow trout. That steelhead was twice the size of the five-pound salmon I’d caught, but I wondered why one was called salmon and the other, trout. How do fish get named? For that matter, what about other animals and plants? The biological sciences emplo...

Circling Eloh: A Meditation First the war, thousands of miles to the east. No. First other, older wars with forgotten names, unhousing and unhoming the Apache Nation. The Arapaho Nation. The Cheyenne Nation. The Pueblo. The Shoshone. The Comanche. The Kiowa. The Navajo. There is a river run red, there is a lake, there is a world on fire who can never be regained. How can we reclaim when name and place are lost? When even ponderosa and lodgepole are uprooted for maple and elm? There is water. Th...