… is not someone that's like gonna go to the mattresses to fight for it in D.C. i also think that Maine has a very fraught relationship with the Wabanaki Nations. We have a specific law from 1980 which does not extend to the Maine tribes the same protections that all other 570 nationally federally recognized tribes get. So it means that the main tribes have to spend a bunch of money on lobbyists in Washington D.C. because for it for legislation to impact them, they need to be named specifically. (17:39–17:52)
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Asserts that a 1980 law does not grant Maine tribes the same protections as other federally recognized tribes.
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