State lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday about a proposed constitutional amendment that aims to reverse a nearly 150-year-old decision to stop printing a portion of Maine's Constitution related to the Wabanaki nations.
Fifty-five years after Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1820, members of a special commission charged with cleaning up the state's constitution voted to stop printing three sections of the document. One of those sections, known as Article X Section 5, required the state of Maine to continue honoring the treaties between Massachusetts and tribes living within the boundaries of the new state.
Esty-Kendall was speaking as part of a hearing on a bill from House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross to reverse that decision. Talbot Ross’sproposes to ask Maine voters whether they want to amend the state's constitution to require that Article X Section 5 once again be included in any printed copies of the document.
Penobscot Nation Ambassador Maulian Dana described the proposed constitutional amendment as a"powerful truth-seeking measure truth that lives whether we acknowledge it or not." Dana also put the proposal into the context of the ongoing fight for greater state recognition of the sovereignty of the Wabanaki tribes.
The proposed constitutional amendment is one of several bills supported by tribal leaders pending in the current legislative session.
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