BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 17, 2024
In 2016 President Barack Obama designated Katahdin Woods and Waters a national monument, made up of 13 parcels donated by Elliotsville Plantation Inc. and Roxanne Quimby, founder of Burt’s Bees. Since then, the Elliotsville Foundation, the National Park Service, and representatives of the independent Native Nations that constitute the Wabanaki Confederacy — Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Mi’kmaq Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Motahkomikuk and Sipayik, and Penobscot Nation — worked to build a visitor’s center. About 150 people on Saturday gathered for Tekαkαpimək’s unveiling and to hear the stories of the land and the Wabanaki people.