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Mills And State Of Maine Take Steps To Improve Relationships With Maine’s Native Tribes
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:04:24
Publish Date: 2019-04-26 15:06:01
Description: Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law a bill that will change the Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous Peoples Day. Maine now joins seven other states that adopted similar changes to celebrate the second Tuesday in October by replacing Columbus Day and honoring the native North Americans victimized during and after the Italian explorers expeditions. And Mills, who has had a rocky past with Maine's native tribes , says she is moving quickly to restore a tribal-state commission, an inter-governmental body created nearly 40 years ago, but largely neglected in recent years.
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