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Penobscot Indian Nation Reservation (Indian reservation (Native American reservation)) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 45 22 36 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 45.3760 decimal degrees |
| Long: 068 31 38 W degrees minutes |
Long: -68.5270 decimal degrees |
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Note: This is a federally-recognized reservation stewarded by the Penobscot Nation. The reservation spans over 4,900 acres, including over 200 islands in the Penobscot River, in Penobscot and Aroostook Counties, Maine. Amongst other settlements, this reservation land comprises Indian Island, also known as alenape meneha, the Nation's primary village and seat of government. The Nation also stewards an additional 90,000 acres of trust land in nine locations throughout the state of Maine. While the Penobscot Nation has occupied ancestral homelands within the drainage area of the Penobscot River since time immemorial, it was largely dispossesed of its ancestral territories by the mid-1830s. At this time, the Nation only retained stewardship of land along the Penobscot River and its islands north of Indian Island after ceeding the majority of its ancestral lands to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and, after 1820, the State of Maine. The Nation was not granted expanded federal reservation lands until 1975, when the US District Court established a trust relationship with the Tribe to repatriate illegally stolen tribal territory. Pursuant to the passage of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act in 1980, the Nation was allocated a Land Acquisition Fund through which it was able to purchase its current reservation lands, which constitute only a fraction of its ancestral territory. In an effort to uplift the epistemic authority of Indigenous knowledge systems and engage with Indigenous peoples' Right of Reply, ethical collaboration with the tribal chairperson's office and/or cultural center is highly encouraged for the most authoritative information about tribal reservations. |
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| Penobscot Indian Nation Reservation (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)
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| Penobscot Nation Reservation (C,V,English,U)
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| Penobscot Reservation (C,V,English,U)
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| Penobscot Island Indian Reservation (C,V,O,English,U)
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| Penobscot Nation (C,V,English,U)
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| Penobscot Nation Tribal Lands (C,V,English,U)
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Maine (state) (P) |
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Maine (state) (P) |
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| Indian reservation (Native American reservation) (preferred, C) |
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| inhabited place (C) |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Penobscot Nation Tribal Lands.......... |
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Penobscot Nation [online] (2024-) "Penobscot Nation Tribal Lands"; accessed 22 April 2024 |
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