BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 24, 2024
Wabanaki tribes may soon have the ability to gather sweetgrass in Acadia National Park for traditional uses after more than a century of not being able to do so. The National Park Service announced Wednesday that Acadia can enter individual agreements with the federally recognized tribes with historical and cultural ties to the land there. The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Mi’kmaq Nation, the Passamaquoddy Tribes at Pleasant Point and at Indian Township and the Penobscot Nation, collectively called the Wabanaki Nations, have a cultural heritage of using the grass medicinally, ceremonially and in basket making.