Welcome
Welcome to Native American Programs at the University of Maine! Here, you can access information about Native American Studies, the Wabanaki Center, the Native American Waiver and Education Program, and information about University of Maine programs that promote, support and provide educational opportunities for and about Wabanaki peoples across the State of Maine and beyond!
Northeastern Americas native populations in the news
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Newsom, UMaine students and Wabanaki partners aid effort to protect Acadia’s Indigenous archaeological sites from climate change
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McGillicuddy Humanities Center welcomes newest cohort of undergraduate fellows
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New Wabanaki basketry lexicon will give Indigenous communities a say in cultural representation
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Wabanaki Winter Market returns to UMaine Dec. 9
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Smithsonian Magazine interviews Calderwood for blueberry feature
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Charney featured in ‘Maine Calling’ episode on nature
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Media announce launch of space satellite designed by UMaine
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Kimball publishes opinion piece in BDN on teachers’ importance
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FOX 22 highlights Cohen Institute’s high school leadership program
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Forest-based economy, jobs focus of new university-nonprofit partnership
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UMaine receives NSF award to help rural schools recruit, educate and train STEM teachers
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Graduate student documents Chilean research voyage with photography
UMaine and Penobscot Nation MOU
UMaine and Penobscot Nation to sign MOU focused on managing tribe’s cultural heritage
University of Maine Land Acknowledgement
The University of Maine recognizes that it is located on Marsh Island in the homeland of the Penobscot Nation, where issues of water and territorial rights, and encroachment upon sacred sites, are ongoing. Penobscot homeland is connected to the other Wabanaki Tribal Nations—the Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Micmac—through kinship, alliances, and diplomacy. The University also recognizes that the Penobscot Nation and the other Wabanaki Tribal Nations are distinct, sovereign, legal and political entities with their own powers of self-governance and self-determination.