BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 13, 2021
The former tribal adviser to Gov. Janet Mills believes sovereignty should be restored to the Wabanaki people, but she said it will take a long and piecemeal dismantling of fraught agreements between the state and tribes. “I still feel to a certain extent that the land claims act should just be annihilated,” Loring said, referring to the state law implementing the agreement. “You should just get rid of the whole damn thing and start on a new footing.” Loring has also called for the state’s courts to revisit two 19th-century legal cases that have been used to invalidate Maine’s treaties with tribes.