ASSOCIATED PRESS • October 30, 2020
The private foundation that donated land for the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine has returned 735 acres of ancestral land to the Penobscot Nation, officials said Friday. The land transferred from Elliotsville Foundation is located to the west of the town of Brownsville in Piscataquis County, in between two parcels of land already owned by Penobscots. The land includes the headwaters of the Pleasant River, a tributary to the Penobscot River, which is sacred to the tribe.