MAINE MORNING STAR • June 23, 2025
Sweeping changes to the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act have failed. Instead, the governor, lawmakers and Wabanaki leaders have successfully made some targeted reforms. There’s a philosophical argument, known as Zeno’s dichotomy paradox, that essentially reasons if you are trying to reach a specific destination, and you go halfway there, again and again, you’ll never actually arrive at your end point. That seems to be the approach Maine officials are taking to tribal rights. Taking incremental steps toward sovereignty while refusing to step back and accept the totality of the landscape, tribal sovereignty for now remains an unreachable destination.