#nocompromise — Public Fediverse posts

The silence of God isn't an absence of power—it’s a test of your structural integrity. Stop whining and start standing on the immutable steel of His promises. ⚔️🔥

#MasculineFaith #BiblicalHope #NoCompromise

https://bdking71.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/executing-faith-when-god-silent/

The silence of God isn't an absence of power—it’s a test of your structural integrity. Stop whining and start standing on the immutable steel of His promises. ⚔️🔥

#MasculineFaith #BiblicalHope #NoCompromise

https://bdking71.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/executing-faith-when-god-silent/

The silence of God isn't an absence of power—it’s a test of your structural integrity. Stop whining and start standing on the immutable steel of His promises. ⚔️🔥

#MasculineFaith #BiblicalHope #NoCompromise

https://bdking71.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/executing-faith-when-god-silent/

Still Love The Lake // First Minute Preview

For the ones we lost, without losing them... They ain't dead, but they ain't the same...

#IndigenousHipHop #NativeRapper #AddictionAwareness #storytelling #NoCompromise

Huh...

Preview of 238 to 807

Find it... wherever, or don't...
We're here.

Oji-Cree. North Spirit Lake to Thunder Bay.
This is where I'm from.

#indigenoushiphop
#ojicree
#thunderbay
#northspiritlake
#consciousrap
#canadianhiphop
#storytelling
#nocompromise
#exdaful
#indigenoushiphop

Huh...

Preview of 238 to 807

Find it... wherever, or don't...
We're here.

Oji-Cree. North Spirit Lake to Thunder Bay.
This is where I'm from.

#indigenoushiphop
#ojicree
#thunderbay
#northspiritlake
#consciousrap
#canadianhiphop
#storytelling
#nocompromise
#exdaful
#indigenoushiphop

Huh...

Preview of 238 to 807

Find it... wherever, or don't...
We're here.

Oji-Cree. North Spirit Lake to Thunder Bay.
This is where I'm from.

#indigenoushiphop
#ojicree
#thunderbay
#northspiritlake
#consciousrap
#canadianhiphop
#storytelling
#nocompromise
#exdaful
#indigenoushiphop

Huh...

Preview of 238 to 807

Find it... wherever, or don't...
We're here.

Oji-Cree. North Spirit Lake to Thunder Bay.
This is where I'm from.

#indigenoushiphop
#ojicree
#thunderbay
#northspiritlake
#consciousrap
#canadianhiphop
#storytelling
#nocompromise
#exdaful
#indigenoushiphop

Huh...

Preview of 238 to 807

Find it... wherever, or don't...
We're here.

Oji-Cree. North Spirit Lake to Thunder Bay.
This is where I'm from.

#indigenoushiphop
#ojicree
#thunderbay
#northspiritlake
#consciousrap
#canadianhiphop
#storytelling
#nocompromise
#exdaful
#indigenoushiphop

Don't trade your values for a seat at a table where you can't speak. #Justice #Integrity #NoCompromise

https://artsincubator.ca/motivation/courage-to-be-disliked.html

We understand that builders develop reputations one project at a time. Every shortcut saved now costs credibility later. Quality is the only standard that matters long-term.
Tag someone whose quality standards inspire better work from everyone around them.
What quality standard do you never compromise on? Some lines shouldn't be crossed.

#qualitycontrol #reputationmatters #nocompromise #handbuilt #craftmanship

🎥 👉 @harleydave883_

Finally, Trixie has been stable since yesterday and I’m no longer wasting time.

I’m giving up the beach vibes to focus on building BashCoreT, packed with kernel 6.12 + PREEMPT_RT and the full arsenal of tools.

Tests will start soon, then the release 🤞

🚀 #BashCoreT #Linux #Pentesting #NoCompromise #Trixie #BashCore #Debian

Finally, Trixie has been stable since yesterday and I’m no longer wasting time.

I’m giving up the beach vibes to focus on building BashCoreT, packed with kernel 6.12 + PREEMPT_RT and the full arsenal of tools.

Tests will start soon, then the release 🤞

🚀 #BashCoreT #Linux #Pentesting #NoCompromise #Trixie #BashCore #Debian

Finally, Trixie has been stable since yesterday and I’m no longer wasting time.

I’m giving up the beach vibes to focus on building BashCoreT, packed with kernel 6.12 + PREEMPT_RT and the full arsenal of tools.

Tests will start soon, then the release 🤞

🚀 #BashCoreT #Linux #Pentesting #NoCompromise #Trixie #BashCore #Debian

Finally, Trixie has been stable since yesterday and I’m no longer wasting time.

I’m giving up the beach vibes to focus on building BashCoreT, packed with kernel 6.12 + PREEMPT_RT and the full arsenal of tools.

Tests will start soon, then the release 🤞

🚀 #BashCoreT #Linux #Pentesting #NoCompromise #Trixie #BashCore #Debian

Finally, Trixie has been stable since yesterday and I’m no longer wasting time.

I’m giving up the beach vibes to focus on building BashCoreT, packed with kernel 6.12 + PREEMPT_RT and the full arsenal of tools.

Tests will start soon, then the release 🤞

🚀 #BashCoreT #Linux #Pentesting #NoCompromise #Trixie #BashCore #Debian

⛓️ Break the chains of surveillance — reclaim your digital freedom.
Encrypt your life, control your presence,
and step into a world where privacy leads.

#DataPrivacy #EncryptedLife #FreedomOnline #SecureYourSpace #NoCompromise

Do you feel safe?
That's the first reason to breach.

Privacy isn't paranoia -
It's survival.
It's how ghosts live.

#DeadSwitch #OPSEC #PrivacyIsPower #NoCompromise #GhostProtocol #CyberDiscipline #SignalNotNoise

Do you feel safe?
That's the first reason to breach.

Privacy isn't paranoia -
It's survival.
It's how ghosts live.

#DeadSwitch #OPSEC #PrivacyIsPower #NoCompromise #GhostProtocol #CyberDiscipline #SignalNotNoise

Do you feel safe?
That's the first reason to breach.

Privacy isn't paranoia -
It's survival.
It's how ghosts live.

#DeadSwitch #OPSEC #PrivacyIsPower #NoCompromise #GhostProtocol #CyberDiscipline #SignalNotNoise

America’s approval is a mirage, and giving up rights is destruction.

Whoever believes salvation lies in America’s approval is lost.
Whoever sacrifices their people’s rights falls into unforgivable betrayal.

Our only salvation is holding firmly to our rights.
We will neither bow nor compromise.
Our rights remain, and our dignity is worth more than all false deals and promises.

#Freedom #Justice #NoCompromise #StandStrong #RightsNotDeals #NeverBetray

America’s approval is a mirage, and giving up rights is destruction.

Whoever believes salvation lies in America’s approval is lost.
Whoever sacrifices their people’s rights falls into unforgivable betrayal.

Our only salvation is holding firmly to our rights.
We will neither bow nor compromise.
Our rights remain, and our dignity is worth more than all false deals and promises.

#Freedom #Justice #NoCompromise #StandStrong #RightsNotDeals #NeverBetray

America’s approval is a mirage, and giving up rights is destruction.

Whoever believes salvation lies in America’s approval is lost.
Whoever sacrifices their people’s rights falls into unforgivable betrayal.

Our only salvation is holding firmly to our rights.
We will neither bow nor compromise.
Our rights remain, and our dignity is worth more than all false deals and promises.

#Freedom #Justice #NoCompromise #StandStrong #RightsNotDeals #NeverBetray

America’s approval is a mirage, and giving up rights is destruction.

Whoever believes salvation lies in America’s approval is lost.
Whoever sacrifices their people’s rights falls into unforgivable betrayal.

Our only salvation is holding firmly to our rights.
We will neither bow nor compromise.
Our rights remain, and our dignity is worth more than all false deals and promises.

#Freedom #Justice #NoCompromise #StandStrong #RightsNotDeals #NeverBetray

Consumers are products.
They are part of the System.
Consumed, tracked, shaped.
DeadSwitch produces - then vanishes.
Unseen. Unowned.
Be signal. Be unseeable.

#DeadSwitch #CyberGhost #OPSEC #DigitalMinimalism #EscapeTheSystem #NoCompromise #SignalNotNoise

Consumers are products.
They are part of the System.
Consumed, tracked, shaped.
DeadSwitch produces - then vanishes.
Unseen. Unowned.
Be signal. Be unseeable.

#DeadSwitch #CyberGhost #OPSEC #DigitalMinimalism #EscapeTheSystem #NoCompromise #SignalNotNoise

Consumers are products.
They are part of the System.
Consumed, tracked, shaped.
DeadSwitch produces - then vanishes.
Unseen. Unowned.
Be signal. Be unseeable.

#DeadSwitch #CyberGhost #OPSEC #DigitalMinimalism #EscapeTheSystem #NoCompromise #SignalNotNoise

Consumers are products.
They are part of the System.
Consumed, tracked, shaped.
DeadSwitch produces - then vanishes.
Unseen. Unowned.
Be signal. Be unseeable.

#DeadSwitch #CyberGhost #OPSEC #DigitalMinimalism #EscapeTheSystem #NoCompromise #SignalNotNoise

🖥️ Device is a Liability: Harden It or Lose It #CyberSecurity #DeviceSecurity #Privacy #Encryption #Linux #ZeroTrust #AnonOps #Infosec #VPN #HardenYourDevice #DeadSwitch #GhostOps #TomITCafe #SecurityFirst #NoCompromise #DigitalAnonymity #AirGapped

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/04/03/device-is-a-liability-harden-it-or-lose-it/

🖥️ Device is a Liability: Harden It or Lose It #CyberSecurity #DeviceSecurity #Privacy #Encryption #Linux #ZeroTrust #AnonOps #Infosec #VPN #HardenYourDevice #DeadSwitch #GhostOps #TomITCafe #SecurityFirst #NoCompromise #DigitalAnonymity #AirGapped

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/04/03/device-is-a-liability-harden-it-or-lose-it/

🖥️ Device is a Liability: Harden It or Lose It #CyberSecurity #DeviceSecurity #Privacy #Encryption #Linux #ZeroTrust #AnonOps #Infosec #VPN #HardenYourDevice #DeadSwitch #GhostOps #TomITCafe #SecurityFirst #NoCompromise #DigitalAnonymity #AirGapped

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/04/03/device-is-a-liability-harden-it-or-lose-it/

🖥️ Device is a Liability: Harden It or Lose It #CyberSecurity #DeviceSecurity #Privacy #Encryption #Linux #ZeroTrust #AnonOps #Infosec #VPN #HardenYourDevice #DeadSwitch #GhostOps #TomITCafe #SecurityFirst #NoCompromise #DigitalAnonymity #AirGapped

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/04/03/device-is-a-liability-harden-it-or-lose-it/

🖥️ Device is a Liability: Harden It or Lose It #CyberSecurity #DeviceSecurity #Privacy #Encryption #Linux #ZeroTrust #AnonOps #Infosec #VPN #HardenYourDevice #DeadSwitch #GhostOps #TomITCafe #SecurityFirst #NoCompromise #DigitalAnonymity #AirGapped

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/04/03/device-is-a-liability-harden-it-or-lose-it/

🔥 Non fatevi ingannare! Split Fiction non lascerà mai che l'economia comprometta la qualità. Siamo qui per raccontare storie eccezionali, a prescindere dal costo. #SplitFiction #NoCompromise 🚀

🔗 https://www.spaziogames.it/notizie/split-fiction-nessun-compromesso-economico-ne-ora-ne-mai

🔥 Non fatevi ingannare! Split Fiction non lascerà mai che l'economia comprometta la qualità. Siamo qui per raccontare storie eccezionali, a prescindere dal costo. #SplitFiction #NoCompromise 🚀

🔗 https://www.spaziogames.it/notizie/split-fiction-nessun-compromesso-economico-ne-ora-ne-mai

🔥 Non fatevi ingannare! Split Fiction non lascerà mai che l'economia comprometta la qualità. Siamo qui per raccontare storie eccezionali, a prescindere dal costo. #SplitFiction #NoCompromise 🚀

🔗 https://www.spaziogames.it/notizie/split-fiction-nessun-compromesso-economico-ne-ora-ne-mai

🔥 Non fatevi ingannare! Split Fiction non lascerà mai che l'economia comprometta la qualità. Siamo qui per raccontare storie eccezionali, a prescindere dal costo. #SplitFiction #NoCompromise 🚀

🔗 https://www.spaziogames.it/notizie/split-fiction-nessun-compromesso-economico-ne-ora-ne-mai

Keith Green - No Compromise LP Vinyl Record For Sale https://recordsalbums.com/christian-gospel-vinyl-records-albums-lps-sale/8424-keith-green-no-compromise-lp-vinyl-record-for-sale.html #KeithGreen #NoCompromise #KeithGreenVinyl #KeithGreenVinylRecords #KeithGreenRecords #KeithGreenAlbums #KeithGreenLPs #lps #vinyl #records #albums #vinylrecords #LPalbums #Christian #GospelMusic

Keith Green - No Compromise LP Vinyl Record For Sale https://recordsalbums.com/christian-gospel-vinyl-records-albums-lps-sale/8424-keith-green-no-compromise-lp-vinyl-record-for-sale.html #KeithGreen #NoCompromise #KeithGreenVinyl #KeithGreenVinylRecords #KeithGreenRecords #KeithGreenAlbums #KeithGreenLPs #lps #vinyl #records #albums #vinylrecords #LPalbums #Christian #GospelMusic

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@SomeGadgetGuy

/me sipping on a large pint of we-told-you-so-for-the-last-20-years-or-so...

#UseGNU #FreeLibreSoftware #NoCompromise #ItsAboutFreedom

@SomeGadgetGuy

/me sipping on a large pint of we-told-you-so-for-the-last-20-years-or-so...

#UseGNU #FreeLibreSoftware #NoCompromise #ItsAboutFreedom

@SomeGadgetGuy

/me sipping on a large pint of we-told-you-so-for-the-last-20-years-or-so...

#UseGNU #FreeLibreSoftware #NoCompromise #ItsAboutFreedom

@SomeGadgetGuy

/me sipping on a large pint of we-told-you-so-for-the-last-20-years-or-so...

#UseGNU #FreeLibreSoftware #NoCompromise #ItsAboutFreedom

@SomeGadgetGuy

/me sipping on a large pint of we-told-you-so-for-the-last-20-years-or-so...

#UseGNU #FreeLibreSoftware #NoCompromise #ItsAboutFreedom

This article from the March 2024 issue of #DownEastMagazine has a lot of background behind the Maine Settlement Act. A must read!!!

What Would #TribalSovereignty Mean for the #Wabanaki?

For more than 40 years, the tribes in Maine have had to play by different rules than other indigenous groups across the country, and they have suffered in tangible ways as a result. Now, a push for greater tribal autonomy has come to a head

"18th-century treaties were never intended to deed away land. Like many American #Indigenous groups, the #Wabanaki viewed stewardship as a communal undertaking — they didn’t share European conceptions of private land ownership. Unattuned to this foreign mindset, the Wabanaki signed treaties assuming the documents outlined land use, not ownership."

By Rachel Slade
March, 2024

"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets’ administrative headquarters, built to resemble a log cabin, sits on a small tract of tribal land in Aroostook County, just north of where I-95 intersects the Canadian border. A few steps away, the #MeduxnekeagRiver roars past, the sound of rushing water a reminder of the harm done by 19th-century log drives, when clearing the river of obstacles turned the flow fast and shallow. A decade ago, the Maliseets took it upon themselves to start a #restoration project, partnering with federal and state agencies and nonprofit groups to add boulders and bends to the Meduxnekeag. To date, they have covered a four-mile stretch, recreating conditions that will cool and oxygenate the water, in order to help insects, birds, and fish thrive. The work requires patience. So does much else. The river is hardly the only historical damage tribal leaders around the state have been attempting to repair.

"One of the four remaining Wabanaki tribes whose forebears arrived in Maine more than 10,000 years ago, the Maliseets inhabited an area now split between the United States and Canada long before the existence of an international border. Chief #ClarissaSabattis, who wears her heather-brown hair in two long, thick braids that drape over her shoulders, was elected to lead the #Maliseets in #Maine in 2017. Since then, she says, she has struggled daily with the complex legal relationships the tribes have with the state government, dictated by the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct.

"The terms of the settlement were the result of a decade of legal wrangling (and centuries of fraught dealings before that) that resulted in the state wielding unprecedented power over tribal affairs. The tribes have come to find the arrangement both burdensome and unjust. 'Our tribal council is our governing body,' Sabattis said when I met her at the Maliseet administrative offices. 'We should have full authority to make the laws and serve our people without interference from other governments.'

"Several years ago, the Maliseets, Mi’kmaq, #Passamaquoddy, and #PenobscotNation banded together and formed #WabanakiAlliance to collectively push for #TribalSovereignty. Most of the country’s 570 other federally recognized tribes are sovereign, which in the context of tribal affairs implies a sort of quasi-independence: through a direct nation-to-nation relationship with the federal government, indigenous groups can run their own communities. They administer their law enforcement, courts, schools, health care, and civil infrastructure on their reserved lands with federal assistance and funding — and, unlike in Maine, can do so without state-level interference. Sovereignty also means that if the tribes believe the state has violated their federally protected rights, they have recourse both through federal agencies and courts. It’s a system under which tribes across the nation have begun to flourish in recent decades."

Read more:
https://downeast.com/issues-politics/what-would-tribal-sovereignty-mean-for-the-wabanaki/

#LandBack #MaineSettlementAct #NoCompromise #MaineTribes #IndigenousSovereignty #Wabanaki #WabanakiTribes #WabanakiNations #PenobscotNation #Passamaquoddy #Micmac #Miqmak #Maliseets #IndigenousNews #JanetMills

This article from the March 2024 issue of #DownEastMagazine has a lot of background behind the Maine Settlement Act. A must read!!!

What Would #TribalSovereignty Mean for the #Wabanaki?

For more than 40 years, the tribes in Maine have had to play by different rules than other indigenous groups across the country, and they have suffered in tangible ways as a result. Now, a push for greater tribal autonomy has come to a head

"18th-century treaties were never intended to deed away land. Like many American #Indigenous groups, the #Wabanaki viewed stewardship as a communal undertaking — they didn’t share European conceptions of private land ownership. Unattuned to this foreign mindset, the Wabanaki signed treaties assuming the documents outlined land use, not ownership."

By Rachel Slade
March, 2024

"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets’ administrative headquarters, built to resemble a log cabin, sits on a small tract of tribal land in Aroostook County, just north of where I-95 intersects the Canadian border. A few steps away, the #MeduxnekeagRiver roars past, the sound of rushing water a reminder of the harm done by 19th-century log drives, when clearing the river of obstacles turned the flow fast and shallow. A decade ago, the Maliseets took it upon themselves to start a #restoration project, partnering with federal and state agencies and nonprofit groups to add boulders and bends to the Meduxnekeag. To date, they have covered a four-mile stretch, recreating conditions that will cool and oxygenate the water, in order to help insects, birds, and fish thrive. The work requires patience. So does much else. The river is hardly the only historical damage tribal leaders around the state have been attempting to repair.

"One of the four remaining Wabanaki tribes whose forebears arrived in Maine more than 10,000 years ago, the Maliseets inhabited an area now split between the United States and Canada long before the existence of an international border. Chief #ClarissaSabattis, who wears her heather-brown hair in two long, thick braids that drape over her shoulders, was elected to lead the #Maliseets in #Maine in 2017. Since then, she says, she has struggled daily with the complex legal relationships the tribes have with the state government, dictated by the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct.

"The terms of the settlement were the result of a decade of legal wrangling (and centuries of fraught dealings before that) that resulted in the state wielding unprecedented power over tribal affairs. The tribes have come to find the arrangement both burdensome and unjust. 'Our tribal council is our governing body,' Sabattis said when I met her at the Maliseet administrative offices. 'We should have full authority to make the laws and serve our people without interference from other governments.'

"Several years ago, the Maliseets, Mi’kmaq, #Passamaquoddy, and #PenobscotNation banded together and formed #WabanakiAlliance to collectively push for #TribalSovereignty. Most of the country’s 570 other federally recognized tribes are sovereign, which in the context of tribal affairs implies a sort of quasi-independence: through a direct nation-to-nation relationship with the federal government, indigenous groups can run their own communities. They administer their law enforcement, courts, schools, health care, and civil infrastructure on their reserved lands with federal assistance and funding — and, unlike in Maine, can do so without state-level interference. Sovereignty also means that if the tribes believe the state has violated their federally protected rights, they have recourse both through federal agencies and courts. It’s a system under which tribes across the nation have begun to flourish in recent decades."

Read more:
https://downeast.com/issues-politics/what-would-tribal-sovereignty-mean-for-the-wabanaki/

#LandBack #MaineSettlementAct #NoCompromise #MaineTribes #IndigenousSovereignty #Wabanaki #WabanakiTribes #WabanakiNations #PenobscotNation #Passamaquoddy #Micmac #Miqmak #Maliseets #IndigenousNews #JanetMills

This article from the March 2024 issue of #DownEastMagazine has a lot of background behind the Maine Settlement Act. A must read!!!

What Would #TribalSovereignty Mean for the #Wabanaki?

For more than 40 years, the tribes in Maine have had to play by different rules than other indigenous groups across the country, and they have suffered in tangible ways as a result. Now, a push for greater tribal autonomy has come to a head

"18th-century treaties were never intended to deed away land. Like many American #Indigenous groups, the #Wabanaki viewed stewardship as a communal undertaking — they didn’t share European conceptions of private land ownership. Unattuned to this foreign mindset, the Wabanaki signed treaties assuming the documents outlined land use, not ownership."

By Rachel Slade
March, 2024

"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets’ administrative headquarters, built to resemble a log cabin, sits on a small tract of tribal land in Aroostook County, just north of where I-95 intersects the Canadian border. A few steps away, the #MeduxnekeagRiver roars past, the sound of rushing water a reminder of the harm done by 19th-century log drives, when clearing the river of obstacles turned the flow fast and shallow. A decade ago, the Maliseets took it upon themselves to start a #restoration project, partnering with federal and state agencies and nonprofit groups to add boulders and bends to the Meduxnekeag. To date, they have covered a four-mile stretch, recreating conditions that will cool and oxygenate the water, in order to help insects, birds, and fish thrive. The work requires patience. So does much else. The river is hardly the only historical damage tribal leaders around the state have been attempting to repair.

"One of the four remaining Wabanaki tribes whose forebears arrived in Maine more than 10,000 years ago, the Maliseets inhabited an area now split between the United States and Canada long before the existence of an international border. Chief #ClarissaSabattis, who wears her heather-brown hair in two long, thick braids that drape over her shoulders, was elected to lead the #Maliseets in #Maine in 2017. Since then, she says, she has struggled daily with the complex legal relationships the tribes have with the state government, dictated by the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct.

"The terms of the settlement were the result of a decade of legal wrangling (and centuries of fraught dealings before that) that resulted in the state wielding unprecedented power over tribal affairs. The tribes have come to find the arrangement both burdensome and unjust. 'Our tribal council is our governing body,' Sabattis said when I met her at the Maliseet administrative offices. 'We should have full authority to make the laws and serve our people without interference from other governments.'

"Several years ago, the Maliseets, Mi’kmaq, #Passamaquoddy, and #PenobscotNation banded together and formed #WabanakiAlliance to collectively push for #TribalSovereignty. Most of the country’s 570 other federally recognized tribes are sovereign, which in the context of tribal affairs implies a sort of quasi-independence: through a direct nation-to-nation relationship with the federal government, indigenous groups can run their own communities. They administer their law enforcement, courts, schools, health care, and civil infrastructure on their reserved lands with federal assistance and funding — and, unlike in Maine, can do so without state-level interference. Sovereignty also means that if the tribes believe the state has violated their federally protected rights, they have recourse both through federal agencies and courts. It’s a system under which tribes across the nation have begun to flourish in recent decades."

Read more:
https://downeast.com/issues-politics/what-would-tribal-sovereignty-mean-for-the-wabanaki/

#LandBack #MaineSettlementAct #NoCompromise #MaineTribes #IndigenousSovereignty #Wabanaki #WabanakiTribes #WabanakiNations #PenobscotNation #Passamaquoddy #Micmac #Miqmak #Maliseets #IndigenousNews #JanetMills

This article from the March 2024 issue of #DownEastMagazine has a lot of background behind the Maine Settlement Act. A must read!!!

What Would #TribalSovereignty Mean for the #Wabanaki?

For more than 40 years, the tribes in Maine have had to play by different rules than other indigenous groups across the country, and they have suffered in tangible ways as a result. Now, a push for greater tribal autonomy has come to a head

"18th-century treaties were never intended to deed away land. Like many American #Indigenous groups, the #Wabanaki viewed stewardship as a communal undertaking — they didn’t share European conceptions of private land ownership. Unattuned to this foreign mindset, the Wabanaki signed treaties assuming the documents outlined land use, not ownership."

By Rachel Slade
March, 2024

"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets’ administrative headquarters, built to resemble a log cabin, sits on a small tract of tribal land in Aroostook County, just north of where I-95 intersects the Canadian border. A few steps away, the #MeduxnekeagRiver roars past, the sound of rushing water a reminder of the harm done by 19th-century log drives, when clearing the river of obstacles turned the flow fast and shallow. A decade ago, the Maliseets took it upon themselves to start a #restoration project, partnering with federal and state agencies and nonprofit groups to add boulders and bends to the Meduxnekeag. To date, they have covered a four-mile stretch, recreating conditions that will cool and oxygenate the water, in order to help insects, birds, and fish thrive. The work requires patience. So does much else. The river is hardly the only historical damage tribal leaders around the state have been attempting to repair.

"One of the four remaining Wabanaki tribes whose forebears arrived in Maine more than 10,000 years ago, the Maliseets inhabited an area now split between the United States and Canada long before the existence of an international border. Chief #ClarissaSabattis, who wears her heather-brown hair in two long, thick braids that drape over her shoulders, was elected to lead the #Maliseets in #Maine in 2017. Since then, she says, she has struggled daily with the complex legal relationships the tribes have with the state government, dictated by the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct.

"The terms of the settlement were the result of a decade of legal wrangling (and centuries of fraught dealings before that) that resulted in the state wielding unprecedented power over tribal affairs. The tribes have come to find the arrangement both burdensome and unjust. 'Our tribal council is our governing body,' Sabattis said when I met her at the Maliseet administrative offices. 'We should have full authority to make the laws and serve our people without interference from other governments.'

"Several years ago, the Maliseets, Mi’kmaq, #Passamaquoddy, and #PenobscotNation banded together and formed #WabanakiAlliance to collectively push for #TribalSovereignty. Most of the country’s 570 other federally recognized tribes are sovereign, which in the context of tribal affairs implies a sort of quasi-independence: through a direct nation-to-nation relationship with the federal government, indigenous groups can run their own communities. They administer their law enforcement, courts, schools, health care, and civil infrastructure on their reserved lands with federal assistance and funding — and, unlike in Maine, can do so without state-level interference. Sovereignty also means that if the tribes believe the state has violated their federally protected rights, they have recourse both through federal agencies and courts. It’s a system under which tribes across the nation have begun to flourish in recent decades."

Read more:
https://downeast.com/issues-politics/what-would-tribal-sovereignty-mean-for-the-wabanaki/

#LandBack #MaineSettlementAct #NoCompromise #MaineTribes #IndigenousSovereignty #Wabanaki #WabanakiTribes #WabanakiNations #PenobscotNation #Passamaquoddy #Micmac #Miqmak #Maliseets #IndigenousNews #JanetMills

This article from the March 2024 issue of #DownEastMagazine has a lot of background behind the Maine Settlement Act. A must read!!!

What Would #TribalSovereignty Mean for the #Wabanaki?

For more than 40 years, the tribes in Maine have had to play by different rules than other indigenous groups across the country, and they have suffered in tangible ways as a result. Now, a push for greater tribal autonomy has come to a head

"18th-century treaties were never intended to deed away land. Like many American #Indigenous groups, the #Wabanaki viewed stewardship as a communal undertaking — they didn’t share European conceptions of private land ownership. Unattuned to this foreign mindset, the Wabanaki signed treaties assuming the documents outlined land use, not ownership."

By Rachel Slade
March, 2024

"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets’ administrative headquarters, built to resemble a log cabin, sits on a small tract of tribal land in Aroostook County, just north of where I-95 intersects the Canadian border. A few steps away, the #MeduxnekeagRiver roars past, the sound of rushing water a reminder of the harm done by 19th-century log drives, when clearing the river of obstacles turned the flow fast and shallow. A decade ago, the Maliseets took it upon themselves to start a #restoration project, partnering with federal and state agencies and nonprofit groups to add boulders and bends to the Meduxnekeag. To date, they have covered a four-mile stretch, recreating conditions that will cool and oxygenate the water, in order to help insects, birds, and fish thrive. The work requires patience. So does much else. The river is hardly the only historical damage tribal leaders around the state have been attempting to repair.

"One of the four remaining Wabanaki tribes whose forebears arrived in Maine more than 10,000 years ago, the Maliseets inhabited an area now split between the United States and Canada long before the existence of an international border. Chief #ClarissaSabattis, who wears her heather-brown hair in two long, thick braids that drape over her shoulders, was elected to lead the #Maliseets in #Maine in 2017. Since then, she says, she has struggled daily with the complex legal relationships the tribes have with the state government, dictated by the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct.

"The terms of the settlement were the result of a decade of legal wrangling (and centuries of fraught dealings before that) that resulted in the state wielding unprecedented power over tribal affairs. The tribes have come to find the arrangement both burdensome and unjust. 'Our tribal council is our governing body,' Sabattis said when I met her at the Maliseet administrative offices. 'We should have full authority to make the laws and serve our people without interference from other governments.'

"Several years ago, the Maliseets, Mi’kmaq, #Passamaquoddy, and #PenobscotNation banded together and formed #WabanakiAlliance to collectively push for #TribalSovereignty. Most of the country’s 570 other federally recognized tribes are sovereign, which in the context of tribal affairs implies a sort of quasi-independence: through a direct nation-to-nation relationship with the federal government, indigenous groups can run their own communities. They administer their law enforcement, courts, schools, health care, and civil infrastructure on their reserved lands with federal assistance and funding — and, unlike in Maine, can do so without state-level interference. Sovereignty also means that if the tribes believe the state has violated their federally protected rights, they have recourse both through federal agencies and courts. It’s a system under which tribes across the nation have begun to flourish in recent decades."

Read more:
https://downeast.com/issues-politics/what-would-tribal-sovereignty-mean-for-the-wabanaki/

#LandBack #MaineSettlementAct #NoCompromise #MaineTribes #IndigenousSovereignty #Wabanaki #WabanakiTribes #WabanakiNations #PenobscotNation #Passamaquoddy #Micmac #Miqmak #Maliseets #IndigenousNews #JanetMills

Let's see, vetoed #TribalSovereignty, is letting her brother destroy #Maine forests (#CMPCorridor), wetlands and a 200-year-old working farm (#GorhamSpur), and is all for opening up Maine to #ToxicRockets and #Mining! I can't wait for the Mills reign to be over!!

#MaineTribes and #JanetMills close in on deal to avoid another sovereignty veto

February 26, 2024

"The #WabanakiAlliance has advocated for years to amend the $81.5 million settlement to give tribes access to additional federal benefits available to tribes in other states, relating to issues such as health care, land acquisition and disaster assistance. The alliance has pointed to a Harvard University report finding they lagged economically behind tribes in other states.

"But Mills vetoed sovereignty proposals in the past few years and opposes the initial language included in the 41-page Talbot Ross bill that came out last week. Mills believes the more sweeping plan would lead to legal issues and create confusion, according to her office."

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/02/26/politics/janet-mills-maine-tribes-compromise/

#NoCompromise! #LandBack #MaineTribes #IndigenousSovereignty #Wabanaki #WabanakiTribes #WabanakiNations #PenobscotNation #Passamaquoddy #Micmac #Miqmak #Maliseets #IndigenousNews

Let's see, vetoed #TribalSovereignty, is letting her brother destroy #Maine forests (#CMPCorridor), wetlands and a 200-year-old working farm (#GorhamSpur), and is all for opening up Maine to #ToxicRockets and #Mining! I can't wait for the Mills reign to be over!!

#MaineTribes and #JanetMills close in on deal to avoid another sovereignty veto

February 26, 2024

"The #WabanakiAlliance has advocated for years to amend the $81.5 million settlement to give tribes access to additional federal benefits available to tribes in other states, relating to issues such as health care, land acquisition and disaster assistance. The alliance has pointed to a Harvard University report finding they lagged economically behind tribes in other states.

"But Mills vetoed sovereignty proposals in the past few years and opposes the initial language included in the 41-page Talbot Ross bill that came out last week. Mills believes the more sweeping plan would lead to legal issues and create confusion, according to her office."

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/02/26/politics/janet-mills-maine-tribes-compromise/

#NoCompromise! #LandBack #MaineTribes #IndigenousSovereignty #Wabanaki #WabanakiTribes #WabanakiNations #PenobscotNation #Passamaquoddy #Micmac #Miqmak #Maliseets #IndigenousNews

Let's see, vetoed #TribalSovereignty, is letting her brother destroy #Maine forests (#CMPCorridor), wetlands and a 200-year-old working farm (#GorhamSpur), and is all for opening up Maine to #ToxicRockets and #Mining! I can't wait for the Mills reign to be over!!

#MaineTribes and #JanetMills close in on deal to avoid another sovereignty veto

February 26, 2024

"The #WabanakiAlliance has advocated for years to amend the $81.5 million settlement to give tribes access to additional federal benefits available to tribes in other states, relating to issues such as health care, land acquisition and disaster assistance. The alliance has pointed to a Harvard University report finding they lagged economically behind tribes in other states.

"But Mills vetoed sovereignty proposals in the past few years and opposes the initial language included in the 41-page Talbot Ross bill that came out last week. Mills believes the more sweeping plan would lead to legal issues and create confusion, according to her office."

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/02/26/politics/janet-mills-maine-tribes-compromise/

#NoCompromise! #LandBack #MaineTribes #IndigenousSovereignty #Wabanaki #WabanakiTribes #WabanakiNations #PenobscotNation #Passamaquoddy #Micmac #Miqmak #Maliseets #IndigenousNews

Let's see, vetoed #TribalSovereignty, is letting her brother destroy #Maine forests (#CMPCorridor), wetlands and a 200-year-old working farm (#GorhamSpur), and is all for opening up Maine to #ToxicRockets and #Mining! I can't wait for the Mills reign to be over!!

#MaineTribes and #JanetMills close in on deal to avoid another sovereignty veto

February 26, 2024

"The #WabanakiAlliance has advocated for years to amend the $81.5 million settlement to give tribes access to additional federal benefits available to tribes in other states, relating to issues such as health care, land acquisition and disaster assistance. The alliance has pointed to a Harvard University report finding they lagged economically behind tribes in other states.

"But Mills vetoed sovereignty proposals in the past few years and opposes the initial language included in the 41-page Talbot Ross bill that came out last week. Mills believes the more sweeping plan would lead to legal issues and create confusion, according to her office."

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/02/26/politics/janet-mills-maine-tribes-compromise/

#NoCompromise! #LandBack #MaineTribes #IndigenousSovereignty #Wabanaki #WabanakiTribes #WabanakiNations #PenobscotNation #Passamaquoddy #Micmac #Miqmak #Maliseets #IndigenousNews