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Sponsored By: OTELCO

The family philanthropic organization of Burt's Bees Inc. co-founder Roxanne Quimby has just given over 700 acres of ancestral lands in northern Maine to the Penobscot Nation, one of the state's five tribal communities.

Questions about who holds Maine lands and the claims of indigenous peoples who long stewarded the lands have racked the state for years.

Lucas St. Clair, Quimby’s son and president of Elliotsville Plantation Inc., commented on the recent return of the parcel in Williamsburg by saying, “While this is not the start or the end of a long journey of reparation, it is what I can do now and what I hope to do more of while encouraging others to join us.” 

Should Maine and Maine businesses do more to return land rights in the state to its indigenous peoples?
Yes (62%, 206 VOTES)
No (38%, 128 VOTES)
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Sponsored By: OTELCO

The family philanthropic organization of Burt's Bees Inc. co-founder Roxanne Quimby has just given over 700 acres of ancestral lands in northern Maine to the Penobscot Nation, one of the state's five tribal communities.

Questions about who holds Maine lands and the claims of indigenous peoples who long stewarded the lands have racked the state for years.

Lucas St. Clair, Quimby’s son and president of Elliotsville Plantation Inc., commented on the recent return of the parcel in Williamsburg by saying, “While this is not the start or the end of a long journey of reparation, it is what I can do now and what I hope to do more of while encouraging others to join us.” 

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8 Comments

  • November 2, 2020

    People thinks this is a good idea until the time comes that their home is on tribal lands. How would they vote then?

  • November 2, 2020

    Agree fully with compensating landowners who legally bought title to land that is now being returned. Not fair to give land to one party who it was wrongly taken from by taking the land from others.

  • November 2, 2020

    I think we should but if a Maine business legally purchased the land, they should be compensated for the land by Maine, as Maine allowed it to be taken away and then sold to a private person or business.