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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For UMaine emerald ash borer researchers, preparing for the inevitable is an act of hope
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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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Sorg receives Governor’s Award for helping combat opioid epidemic
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Media highlight UMaine student who saved fishermen in shipwreck
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Forbes features study on chatbot customer service co-authored by Stough
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Science interviews Ortega-Jiménez on butterflies collecting pollen without touching flowers
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Media report on U.S. agriculture secretary’s UMaine visit and town hall
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Ranco featured in USA Today on Sacred Defense National Parks and Monuments Initiative
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Study revealing billions of microplastics in Frenchman Bay highlighted by media
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WFVX interviews Saini on upcoming meteor showers
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.