Yet, despite a 21-year-old law requiring lessons on the Wabanaki as part of the Maine studies curriculum, most students hear very little about their history and even less about the contributions Indigenous people make now to our culture, government and economy.įortunately, a report published this week, on Indigenous Peoples Day, offers a path for the state and schools to live up to the law – and help students understand fully where we are as a state and how we got here. Simply put, you can’t know Maine without learning about the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq, the four tribes known collectively as the Wabanaki, or people of the Dawnland.
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