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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 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 to Maine Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Indian Land Claims from Maine Attorney General Richard Cohen explaining certain aspects of the jurisdictional arrangement on Tribal lands (04/02/1980)
The Tribe has licensing authority to regulate hunting and fishing in small ponds, the Tribal State Commission has authority in large ponds, rivers and streams. Tribal policy can bar non-Indians from the lands. Tribes can close their land to fishing…
Letter to Maine Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Indian Land Claims from Maine Attorney General Richard Cohen regarding amendments to the Maine Implementing Bill, discussing fishing and hunting rights (04/01/1980)
Letter to Maine Committee from Maine Attorney General regarding amendments to state bill, discussing fishing and hunting rights.
Letter to Peter Taylor (Special Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs) and Timothy Woodcock (Senate Minority Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs) from John Paterson (Maine Deputy Attorney General), suggesting edits to the mark-up draft of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill S. 2829. (09/02/1980)
Suggests one edit to the language of Section 6(h) (what ultimately became 25 U.S.C. 1725(h)).
Letter to Representative Morris K. Udall from Department of Interior, Supplementing the Department's Previous Report on H.R. 7919 as well as the Department's Previously Submitted Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute (09/10/1980)
Supplement to Department of Interior report made on 8/25/1980, which included an Amendment to H.R. 7919 in the Nature of a Substitute. This letter suggests adding that the Maine Implementing Act (MIA) is confirmed ". . . to the extent that it is not…
Letter to Senator John Melcher from Cecil Andrus (Secretary of the Interior), providing clarifications and amendments to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill S. 2829, as reported by the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (09/22/1980)
Concerning Section 6(h) (which we now know as 25 U.S.C. 1725(h)), the Department of Interior "[has] no objection to a proposed amendment . . . which would insert after 'civil, criminal, or regulatory jurisdiction of the State of Maine,' the…
