En Banc 1st Circuit Finds Maine River Isn’t Part Of Penobscot Reservation

Mealey's ( July 19, 2021, 7:12 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — Four years after a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that the Penobscot Nation’s reservation does not include any of the tribe’s namesake river, an en banc majority of the court affirmed this finding in a July 8 opinion, holding that both Maine and federal Indian claims settlement acts unambiguously established that the nation controls islands within a disputed section of the river, but not the river itself....

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