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Supreme Court ruling could help Indigenous people on Maine border
cbc.ca
3 hrs ago
Jacques Poitras
© Submitted by Cynthia Howland
Chief Hugh Akagi said he hopes the recent Supreme Court ruling will reinforce the belief that the Peskotomuhkati nation is one people.
A Supreme Court of Canada ruling extending Aboriginal rights to some non-Canadian Indigenous people could have wide-ranging implications for the Peskotomuhkati living on both sides of the Maine-New Brunswick border.
The decision says that U.S.-born Indigenous people with historical connections to territory now in Canada have rights under the Canadian Constitution.
My people are already affected by everything around this ruling, so I m hoping that this ruling actually helps us to basically reinforce what we ve been saying all along: how we are one people, one nation, said Chief Hugh Akagi of the Peskotomuhkati, also known as the Passamaquoddy Nation. ....

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