BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 23, 2020
Recently, I attended a historic hearing that included elders of several Maine tribes and Maine state legislators. After one of the elders finished speaking, a state legislator asked her what qualifications or certifications her tribe had to assure his committee that they could safeguard Maine’s environment. How dare they ask the people, whose ancestors subsisted off the land for 12,000 years only to give it up to hundreds of years of toxic pollution by Maine’s textile and paper industries and lax state regulations, for a conservation record. ~ Rafael Macias, Topsham