Colin Woodard is the Press Herald’s State and National Affairs Writer, and is often at work on large investigative projects. Born in Waterville and raised in western Maine, he was a foreign correspondent for two decades, reported from more than fifty countries on all seven continents, and witnessed the collapse of communism and its bloody aftermath in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He’s written five books, including histories of Maine (The Lobster Coast), North America’s rival regional cultures (American Nations) and the Golden Age Pirates (Republic of Pirates), which was turned into a quickly forgotten NBC mini-series starring John Malkovich as Blackbeard. Since joining the Press Herald in 2012, he’s won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. He used to be an avid sailor and SCUBA diver, but with small kids at home, his hobbies now include sleeping and picking up toys.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2014
The perils of placing trust ‘in the hands of the few’
1993 to 2005 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A pinhole camera captures a dog chained to a trailer on Passamaquoddy tribal land recently. For many people on the reservations, the way that leaders managed the tribe’s newfound wealth after the land claims settlement of 1980 left a […]
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PublishedJuly 20, 2014
Commission: Maine lawmakers bypassed tribal approval of 3 laws
The findings prompt some tribal officials to call for repeal of the laws involving saltwater fisheries.
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PublishedJuly 19, 2014
As reservation’s rule of law erodes, abuses thrive
1978 to 1993 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A boarded-up building belies the difficult life on Peter Dana Point in Indian Township. Governing without a tribal constitution in the years following the Indian land claims settlement of 1980 put the Passamaquoddy in a risky spot, even with […]
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PublishedJuly 18, 2014
With no constitution, ‘a community … without rules’
1986 to 1993 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer St. Ann Church, in the village of Peter Dana Point in Indian Township, stands under a gray sky recently. Repeated attempts to enact a tribal constitution – a document that would have provided a legal foundation for the Passamaquoddy […]
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PublishedJuly 17, 2014
For some in tribe, no right to vote, nowhere to turn
September 1986 to June 1987 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer The Pleasant Point reservation is captured in the aperture of a pinhole camera. A legal challenge resulted after an unusual Passamaquoddy caucus initiative in 1986 left many members of the tribe stripped of their right to vote […]
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PublishedJuly 16, 2014
Land claims settlement bears a powerful curse
1983 to 1986 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A Passamaquoddy elder and a member of the joint tribal council sifts through stacks of petitions at Pleasant Point. in an unexpected development, an exception clause in the land claims settlement led to some uncertainty about which laws should […]
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PublishedJuly 15, 2014
The Indians’ trusted adviser capitalizes on his role
1983 to 1990 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer The Passamaquoddy Wild Blueberry Co. in Columbia Falls on Route 1 in Down East Maine was among the investments made by tribe in the years after the land claims settlement of 1980. Attorney Tom Tureen’s firms brokered a series […]
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PublishedJuly 14, 2014
Big question looms: ‘Where would we go from here?’
1980 to 1982 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer This Indian heirloom, depicting a man at “the end of the trail,” was given to Victoria Boston, a Passamaquoddy, after her father died in 2006. The populations on the tribe’s two reservations grew sharply in the wake of the […]
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PublishedJuly 13, 2014
Bombshells, compromises greet an unfolding crisis
1976 to 1980 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A Passamaquoddy Indian pauses in contemplation at the edge of Long Lake on Peter Dana Point in Indian Township recently. Stakes were high for Maine’s tribes and the state alike in the developments that preceded the historic Indian land […]
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PublishedJuly 12, 2014
Tribe resists injustices, in and out of court settings
1968 to 1976 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer Just off Route 1 in Indian Township, this gravel pile, now a grass-covered mound, is where a group of Passamaquoddy sat in protest in 1964 to stop a white man from building a road on reservation land. The arrests […]
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