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Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, the welcome center at Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, is slated to open this summer. Designed in collaboration with Wabanaki leaders, it is one of the first major efforts in the state to boost Indigenous tourism.

In Maine the nascent Wabanaki Cultural Tourism Initiative has so far succeeded in garnering the support of both state and tribal leaders.

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education showed progress has been made at Arizona State University (ASU) in recruiting Native American faculty and students to the Tempe campus. Arizona is home to more than 20 tribes and about 400,000 Indigenous citizens, but until the late 1990s they were underrepresented at state universities. ASU founded the Center for Indian Education about 20 years ago in response to a growing number of Indigenous students on campus. ...

When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I heard about the Maine Indian land claims suit and naively assumed things would work out well for the Indians. Years later (after I’d moved away and then come back again), I still had not learned that Maine’s Native American communities were missing out on essential federal […]

BANGOR - Charlie Boothby passed away Jan. 23, 2022, at a local hospital. He was born to Laurence B. Boothby and ...

A University of Maine proposal to accelerate growth of the forest bio-economy is a finalist for possible funding from a federal agency

A forestry coalition and a project to develop biomanufacturing infrastructure are among 60 finalists in a federal grant competition, and each has received a $500,000 award. Now they’ll compete for up to $100 million.

Maine’s first-ever Wabanaki Cultural Tourism Initiative envisions a multifaceted effort to create a robust year-round Native tourism infrastructure. The goal is to have a thriving tourism economy involving the five Wabanaki tribes in Maine by 2030.

Anyone who isnt aware of the up up up price trend in Maine residential real estate over the past year is living in a (probabably very expensive) cave. And, in Portland, thats a trend on steroids. The median price of a single-family home in Portland jumped from $460,000 in February to $514,500 in March, according to the monthly stats put out by Benchmark Real Estate. Those listing a home can expect it to spend a zippy six days on the market. Multifamily Portland prices had a similar hike from ...

Downeast Innovation Fund awards $95,000 in grants ELLSWORTH — The Maine Community Foundation’s Downeast Innovation Fund has awarded $95,000 in grants to 11 nonprofits located in or serving Hancock and Washington counties. Launched in 2018, the Downeast Innovation Fund Grant program supports nonprofit organizations that provide programs to improve or increase entrepreneurship and innovation in business and the local economies in Hancock and Washington counties. The 2020 grantees include: Cit...