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Maliseet ambassador Osihkiyol Crofton-Macdonald is the board president of the Wabanki Alliance. Maulian Bryant is the executive director of the alliance and a citizen of the Penobscot Nation. They wrote this as part of Wabanaki Voices, an effort with the Wabanaki Alliance to share tribal perspectives in the Bangor Daily News opinion section.

The first legislative session of the 132nd Legislature has wrapped up, leaving the Wabanaki Alliance with mixed results and uncertainty.

We successfully defeated two legislative proposals that would have been detrimental to Wabanaki Nations’ interests. These defensive vict

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