Maine Defends Finding That River Is Not Part Of Penobscot Nation Reservation

Mealey's (March 7, 2022, 1:29 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Petitions for certiorari by the Penobscot Nation in Maine and the United States seeking a ruling that the Penobscot Reservation includes the islands in the tribe’s namesake river should be denied because Maine “has exercised pervasive and exclusive sovereign control” over the islands since it became a state in 1820, the state respondents tell the U.S. Supreme Court in a March 4 opposition brief....

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