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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UMaine’s MIRTA accelerator program welcomes four teams into 2024 cohort
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Carli Frigon: UMaine first-year finds career interest through work at family sugarbush
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UMaine launches sport communication minor
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UMaine unveils new Blue Horizons brand campaign
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Ashley Wilson: Living and learning in Japan thanks to national scholarship
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Sandweiss honored by National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru
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Mainebiz reports on $10M grant for jet fuel and fish feed research
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BDN reports highlights Golet and students supporting fishing tournament
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.