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Tribe Loses Claim to Key Maine Waterway
The Penobscot River, celebrated by Thoreau and Stephen King, belongs to the state and not to the tribe of the same name, the First Circuit holds.
The east branch of the Penobscot River. (Courthouse News via Wikimedia)
BOSTON (CN) A Native American tribe that claimed the right to regulate fishing, boating and other recreation on one of Maine’s most important rivers lost Thursday in a contentious 3-2 decision by the en banc First Circuit.
The Penobscot Nation owns a number of islands in a key 60-mile stretch of the main stem of the Penobscot River near Bangor. But it also claimed to own the river itself an assertion that the court tossed out in a mammoth 136-page decision that sifted through the history of Native American treaties going back to 1715.
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(CN) A Native American casino on the Iowa-Nebraska border should not have been approved by the federal government because the site purchased by the Ponca Tribe does not qualify as an Indian gaming establishment, the two states told a federal appeals court Tuesday.
Iowa Assistant Attorney General John Lundquist told the St. Louis-based Eighth Circuit that the question for the three-judge panel is whether Congress created an exception in federal Indian gaming law that allowed a casino on Iowa land acquired by Nebraska’s Ponca Tribe far beyond its historic reservation. Lundquist argued that it did not.