Tribe, Government Ask Justices To Rule That River Is Part Of Penobscot Reservation

(December 10, 2021, 1:27 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Penobscot Nation in Maine and the United States both filed petitions Dec. 3 seeking U.S. Supreme Court review of a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals holding that the tribe’s reservation includes the islands in a section of the tribe’s namesake river but not the river itself....