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- Collection: National Congress of American Indians Records
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Memo from Bob Lipschutz (White House Counsel) to Leo Krulitz (Solicitor), Providing an update on the status of the Maine Indian Claim Settlement Negotiations (07/11/1979)
This letter refers to a meeting attended by Secretary Andrus, Donald Perkins, and "representatives of the Maine Indians" the week before 07/11/1979. Department of Interior has received drafting service request for legislation to implement the…
Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill H.R. 12834 (House of Representatives) (05/23/1978)
Section 2 of this draft deals with Extinguishment of Claims (what is now found in 25 U.S.C. 1723). Section 2 extinguishes claims involving transfers of lands or waters (or rights to their use). Section 3 provides a remedy against the U.S. for…
Letter to Maine Attorney General Richard Cohen from Tribal Negotiation Committee Regarding Settlement Terms (09/07/1979)
Letter describes settlement terms that the Tribes are willing to agree to after recent meetings between the State and the attorneys for the Tribes and the large landholders. Signed by Gov. Harold Lewey, Gov. M. P. (?), Timothy Love, Lt. Gov. Carl…
Letter from Reid Peyton Chambers (Attorney for the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians) to Thomas Tureen (NARF Attorney for the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation), proposing a draft of some of the provisions for the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill (07/18/1980)
Discusses the jurisdictional arrangement under Section 6(h) (now known as 25 U.S.C. 1725(e)), but focusing on the Maliseets.
Letter from Diane Greenberg (Department of Interior) to Senator Edmund Muskie, with draft bill attached of Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act (MICSA) (09/07/1979)
Both Section 4 and Section 6 of this draft deal with Extinguishment of Claims (what is now found in 25 U.S.C. 1723). Section 10 of this draft deals with Application of State Law (an early version of what we now know as 25 U.S.C. 1725). What we…
