Throughout this podcast series, we’ve been talking about how the tribes of Maine signed away some of their sovereign powers in the 1980 settlement act. That is, except for the Micmacs, Richard’s tribe. The Micmac’s never signed onto the settlement act.

But, not putting pen to paper is only half the story. Because the real question is: Were they better off not signing? Or, was it an even worse fate for the Micmacs than the tribes who did?

Sometimes the only thing worse than a bad deal… is no deal at all.

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