| Date | News Story | Media Outlet |
|---|---|---|
| Date | News Story | Media Outlet |
| May 5, 2016 | Answering a Mother’s Prayer this Mother’s Day | Beth Murphy, Huffington Post |
| April 13, 2016 | ‘Cultural genocide’: Wabanaki commission’s findings preserved in Brunswick | Walter Wuthmann, The Forecaster |
| April 13, 2016 | Finally, the U.S. Steps Closer to Racial Healing With a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine |
| March 29, 2016 | Opening of the Archives: Wabanaki Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Rebecca Goldfine, Bowdoin College |
| Jan. 27, 2016 | The Maine Wabanaki-State TRC: Healing from historic trauma to create a better future | Genevieve Beck-Roe, American Friends Service Committee Acting in Faith blog |
| Dec. 4, 2015 | Truth and Reconciliation: The Findings on Wabanaki Child Welfare in the State of Maine | Cultural Survival Quarter Issue 39-4, Tradition Informing Our Futures (December 2015) |
| Oct. 12, 2015 | Truth and Reconciliation: The Findings on Wabanaki Child Welfare in the State of Maine | Suzette Brewer, Indian Country Today Media Network |
| Oct. 12, 2015 | New Film Documents Maine’s Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Phillip Martin, WGBH News |
| July 7, 2015 | Shattered – Wabanaki People – Child Welfare System | Virginia M. Wright, Down East Magazine, July 2015 edition |
| June 29, 2015 | Maine owes Wabanaki people sovereignty, respect. It’s long overdue | Mark Kelley, Special to the Bangor Daily News (Opinion) |
| June 26, 2015 | TRC report asserts cultural genocide practiced in Maine | Edward French, The Quoddy Tides |
| June 25, 2015 | If truth be told | Lorie Graham and Kathryn E. Fort, The Hill – Congress Blog – Civil Rights |
| June 25, 2015 | Forced Removal of Native American Children From Parents Exposed in 13 Minutes | Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today Media Network |
| June 19, 2015 | Maine's Truth and Reconciliation Commission finds 'evidence of cultural genocide' | Tim Fontaine, CBC News |
| June 18, 2015 | My Father’s Day request for LePage: Support for Wabanaki families | Joseph Hall, Special to the Bangor Daily News (Opinion) |
| June 18, 2015 | Wabanaki Truth Commission issues final report | Special to The Ellsworth American |
| June 17, 2015 | Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission | Keith Shortall, MPBN Maine Calling, with interviews with Charlotte Bacon, Esther Attean, and Matt Dunlap. |
| June 14, 2015 | Closing ceremony for Maine Native Americans | Kaitlyn Chana, WLBZ2 and WCHS6 |
| June 14, 2015 | Commission’s Results Bring Positive Change in Child Welfare | Brenna Kelly, WABI TV5 |
| June 14, 2015 | Native Americans’ report reveals history of ‘cultural genocide’ in Maine | Nick Sambides, Jr., Bangor Daily News |
| June 14, 2015 | Maine Voices: Study gauges harm to Native children – A report to be released Sunday concludes that a form of ‘cultural genocide’ took place in Maine | gkisedtanamoogk and Carol Wishcamper, Opinion, Portland Press Herald |
| June 2, 2015 | Ellsworth group soon to release “truth and reconciliation” report about Maine and its tribes | Charles Eichacker, Ellsworth American |
| May 19, 2015 | "Findings of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission" with Maine-Wabanaki REACH's Maria Girouard and TRC Commissioner Carol Wishcamper | Producer/Host Donna Loring, WERU 89.9 FM Community Radio |
| May 1, 2015 | ‘Without our children, what are we?’ Maine cited for removing Native kids | Marcelle Hopkins, Al Jazeera America |
| May 1, 2015 | Group calls on LePage to reinstate tribal executive order | Dawn Gagnon, Bangor Daily News |
| May 1, 2015 | Maine Native Americans share stories of children taken away | Katharine Bavoso, WLBZ2, Bangor and WCHS6, Portland |
| May 1, 2015 | Wabanaki REACH Leaders want child welfare reform | Patrick Thomas, ABC 7/FOX 22, Bangor |
| April 30, 2015 | Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Reconciliation Commission Shares Investigation Findings | Terry Stackhouse, WABI TV5, Bangor |
| April 30, 2015 | Truth, reconciliation group to host 5 forums | Community section |
| April 29, 2015 | Panel to Share Findings on Removal of Native Children from Homes | Susan Sharon, MPBN News |
| April 28, 2015 | REACH Community Organizer Barbara Kates and REACH ally Shawn Yardley discuss the TRC and Bangor forum, "The Mandate and Beyond" | The Pulse AM 620 Morning Show with Don Cookson |
| April 23, 2015 | Aroostook County residents work to ally with Wabanaki people | Kathryn Olmstead, Special to the Bangor Daily News |
| Jan. 29, 2015 | Segment 2 at 22:37: Keynote speech from the annual MLK Day Breakfast at UMaine featuring Maine-Wabanaki REACH's Esther Attean and Denise Altvater on "Truth, Healing and Change: Maine-Wabanaki Reconciliation." | Amy Browne, Host/Producer, WERU FM 89.9 (audio) |
| Jan. 26, 2015 | Wabanaki History in Maine with Esther Attean and Maria Girouard | Dr. Anne Hallward, Safe Space Radio (audio) |
| Jan. 23, 2015 | Maine Voices: King’s words point to need to address harms to Native Americans | Margy Dowzer, Special to the Portland Press Herald |
| Jan. 19, 2015 | Wabanaki Reconciliation Topic of MLK Jr. Breakfast | Bryan Shawver, FOX Bangor/ABC 7 News TV (video) |
| Jan. 19, 2015 | Maine tribes remember Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate for all oppressed voices | Nick McCrea, Bangor Daily News |
| Dec. 16, 2014 | Shadows in Dawnland | Hannah Dunphy, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) |
| Nov. 27, 2014 | First Thanksgiving | Isaiah Miller of Bangor, Opinion Letter, Bangor Daily News |
| Nov. 24, 2014 | Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission and Maine-Wabanaki REACH | Chris Hayden, Seacoastonline.com |
| Nov. 21, 2014 | All eyes on Maine as group seeks to make amends for injustices to Indian children | Kathryn Olmstead, Bangor Daily News |
| Nov. 20, 2014 | Advocates discuss Maine links to genocide | Danielle Waugh, WCHS6 (Video) |
| Nov. 17, 2014 | Interview with TRC Executive Director Charlotte Bacon and Commissioner Matt Dunlap; Tom Andrews of United to End Genocide; and Maine-Wabanaki REACH's Esther Attean | MPBN, "Maine Calling" with Keith Shorthall (Audio: 51:05) |
| Oct. 13, 2014 | Interview with TRC Commissioner Matt Dunlap on Indigenous Peoples Day | WZON The Pulse |
| Oct. 1, 2014 | Wabanaki-state child welfare panel says truth sought for tribal members | Dave Sargent, Special to the Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal |
| June 26, 2014 | Maine outreach groups to educate, learn stories of incarcerated Native Americans | Nell Gluckman, Bangor Daily News |
| June 17, 2014 | REACH's Maria Girouard joins Wabanaki Windows host Donna Loring to talk about Tribal-State history, her role with REACH and the progress of the truth and reconciliation process | Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 Blue Hill, 99.9 Bangor |
| June 11, 2014 | Truth and Reconciliation Commission broadens effort to expose decades of Wabanaki children being put in state care | Nell Gluckman, Bangor Daily News |
| June 2, 2014 | Panelists talk with Maine tribes about trauma of foster care, separation from families | Nell Gluckman, Bangor Daily News |
| March 20, 2014 | REACH coalition’s Arla Patch addressing historical society tonight | Ellen W. Todd, Sanford News |
| March 3, 2014 | Maine's Indigenous Truth Commission Marks First Year | International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) |
| Feb. 10, 2014 | Join in Days of Reflection, Prayer and Meditation for truth and reconciliation, Feb. 10, 18 and 19 | Jenni Parmalee, Member Story, Knox Village Soup |
| Jan. 20, 2014 | Maine artist speaks to Gould students on MLK and other renowned 'truth-tellers' | Matthew Daigle, Sun Journal |
| Jan. 13, 2014 | Truth and Reconciliation Commission Tells A Story of Forgiveness | Arla Patch and Robert Shetterly, Indian Country Today Media Network |
| Jan. 3, 2014 | Fostering forgiveness: After Indian ‘takings,’ both victims and perpetrators need healing | Arla Patch, Special to the Bangor Daily News |
| Dec. 22, 2013 | A story of forgiveness, a moment of grace | Arla Patch and Robert Shetterly, Columns & Analysis, Sun Journal |
| Dec. 4, 2013 | Portrait artist Robert Shetterly adds Wabanaki activists to famed ‘Americans Who Tell The Truth’ series | Mario Moretto, Bangor Daily News |
| Dec. 4, 2013 | Paintings of Passamaquoddy women to be unveiled in Maine | Morning Sentinel (Waterville) |
| Dec. 3, 2013 | Molly Ockett Days Festival Beginning to Truly Honor Native Namesake includes how Arla Patch helped transform the annual event in Bethel. Article also has photos and a video of the event. | Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today Media Network |
| Nov. 27, 2013 | Bowdoin forum eyes Wabanaki treatment (limited view, subscription-based website) | The Times Record |
| Nov. 27, 2013 | Shetterly to speak, display portrait in Castine | The Castine Patriot |
| Nov. 20, 2013 | Kathleen Shannon speaks with TRC Commissioners gkisedtanamoogk and Carol Wishcamper, as well as Debbie Yarmal, who is testifying for the TRC, as Truth and Reconciliation Commission begins hearings on Indian child welfare at Sipayik (Pleasant Point) | Kathleen Shannon, WCSH 6 and WLBZ 2 News |
| Nov. 20, 2013 | Photos from the Opening Ceremony for the Truth & Reconciliation Commission | WCSH 6 and WLBZ 2 News |
| Nov. 15, 2013 | Kathleen Shannon interviews REACH Co-Director Esther Attean and TRC Commissioner Carol Wishcamper about the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission | Kathleen Shannon, WCSH 6 207 |
| Nov. 10, 2013 | Wabanaki Truth and Reconciliation commissioners set first visit to tribe, includes an interview with Esther Attean | Tim Cox, Bangor Daily News |
| Oct. 28, 2013 | Baby Veronica & Our Stolen Children: ‘Someday, They'll Come Back,’ by TRC Commissioner Sandy White Hawk | Sandy White Hawk, Indian Country Today Media Network |
| Sept. 28, 2013 | Truth, reconciliation commission makes first visit at Sipayik, includes quotes from Esther Attean, Denise Altvater and several Commissioners | Edward French, The Quoddy Tides |
| Sept. 2, 2013 | A chance for Maine to lead on indigenous human rights | Walter R. Echo-Hawk, Special to the Bangor Daily News |
| July 30, 2013 | Healing ‘Already Happening’ in Wabanaki Truth & Reconciliation Process, includes an interview with Esther Attean | Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today Media Network |
| Feb. 12, 2013 | Wabanaki Truth and Reconciliation commissioners sworn in; prepare to begin learning, healing | Nick McCrea, Bangor Daily News (Article, Video and Photos by Linda Coan O'Kresik) |
| Feb. 12, 2013 | Truth and Reconciliation – Part Two, features Esther Attean discussing the history that led up to the creation of the TRC | Joy Hollowell, WABI TV5 (Video) |
| Feb. 11, 2013 | Truth and Reconciliation – Part One, filmed at Wabanaki Health and Wellness and includes an interview with Tyneshia W. | Joy Hollowell, WABI TV5 (Video) |
| Dec. 29, 2012 | Panel to probe child abuses against tribes | The Associated Press for the Times Record |
| Dec. 6, 2012 | U.S. tribe looks to TRC for healing | Tim Fontaine, APTN National News |
| Nov. 20, 2012 | Native Americans recall era of forced adoptions, features interviews with Denise Altvater | Anna Bressanin, BBC World News (Video) |
| Nov. 16, 2012 | Taken: Part 3 – Maine addresses native child welfare issues, provides an in-depth interview with Denise Altvater and her experiences with child welfare | Kathleeen Shannon, WCHS 6 Portland (Video) |
| Nov. 15, 2012 | Taken: Part 2 – Maine addresses native child welfare issues, includes interviews with Martha Proulx and Theresa Dube of Maine OCFS and Penobscot Chief Kirk Francis | Kathleeen Shannon, WCHS 6 Portland (Video) |
| Nov. 14, 2012 | Taken: Part 1 – Maine addresses native child welfare issues, provides an in-depth interview with Denise Altvater about her experiences with child welfare | Kathleeen Shannon, WCHS 6 Portland (Video) |
| Sept. 7, 2012 | Truth and Reconciliation, features an in-depth interview with REACH's Esther Attean, Martha Proulx of Maine DHHS and REACH's Denise Altvater, who was taken as a child from her home. The program also contains excerpts from several speakers at the historic signing of the TRC Mandate. | "Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks" (Video: 28:46) |
| Sept. 6, 2012 | To heal we must learn: a mandate for Wabanaki child welfare, an editorial by Portagers member Paul Frost | Paul Frost, Special to the Bangor Daily News |
| Aug. 20, 2012 | Wabanaki Windows: Update of TRC project and International implications | Producer/Host Donna Loring, WERU 89.9 FM Community Radio (Audio: 57:24) |
| July 13, 2012 | Tribes, state sign mandate for truth, reconciliation process | The Quoddy Tides |
| July 11, 2012 | Five Wabanaki chiefs sign historic agreement, et al (8-page PDF) | Joseph Cyr, the Star-Herald, Aroostook Republican and Houlton Pioneer Times |
| July 5, 2012 | First-in-nation truth and reconciliation mandate signed | The Penobscot Times |
| July 5, 2012 | Governor LePage and Wabanaki Tribal nations to commence signing of Mandate for truth and reconciliation process | Calais Advertiser |
| June 29, 2012 | Sociologist: Maine's Truth and Reconciliation Effort Deserves Global Attention – To listen to the recorded report, click here | Keith Shortall, MPBN News, in an interview with Eduardo Gonzalez of ICTJ |
| June 29, 2012 | Maine signs Historic 'Truth and Reconciliation' Agreement with Indian Tribes – To listen to the recorded report, click here | Susan Sharon, MPBN News |
| June 28, 2012 | State, Wabanaki tribes to sign mandate, look into history of harmful child welfare practices | Nick McCrea, Bangor Daily News |
| Sept. 6, 2011 | The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission & outreach for commissioner nominations | Producer/Host Meredith DeFrancesco, RadioActive (Audio: 27:34) |
| June 8, 2011 | Wabanaki Tribes, Maine Sign Historic Foster Care TRC | Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today Media Network (ICTMN) |
| June 2, 2011 | Truth and reconciliation | Editorial, the Times Record |
| June 2, 2011 | Tribes, state ink truth and reconciliation agreement | Penobscot Times |
| May 27, 2011 | State and tribes agree to explore abuses in child welfare system | Edward French, Quoddy Tides |
| May 26, 2011 | Maine Wabanaki-State Truth & Reconciliation Process, with Esther Attean and Denise Yarmal Altvater | Producer/Host Meredith DeFrancesco, RadioActive (Audio: 29:36) |
| May 25, 2011 | State, Indians to assess child welfare abuses | David Sharp, The Associated Press for the Portland Press Herald |
| May 24, 2011 | Maine, tribes examine past child welfare practices | David Sharp, The Associated Press for the Bangor Daily News |
| May 24, 2011 | LePage, Tribes to explore child welfare abuses | Meg Haskell, Bangor Daily News |
| May 24, 2011 | Maine, Tribes Agree to Examine Past Child Welfare Abuses – To listen to the recorded report, click here | Jay Field, MPBN, (Audio transcript) |
| May 24, 2011 | Governor Signs Pact with Native Officials | Caroline Connolly, WABI TV5 (Video) |
| May 24, 2011 | Governor, Tribal leaders look into state welfare system | Jackie Ward, WCSH 6 News and WLBZ 2 News (Video) |
| May 24, 2011 | Governor LePage signs historic declaration on Indian Island | Fox 22 WFVX Bangor (Video transcript) |
| April 9, 2011 | Homemade justice | Esther Attean and Jill Williams, Cultural Survival Quarterly, 35-1 (Spring 2011) Truth Commissions |
| Nov. 16, 2010 | Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Native people here in Maine | Producer/Host Donna Loring, WERU 89.9 FM Community Radio (Audio: 57:07) |
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