Akins v. Penobscot Indian

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• concluding that the regulation of stump-age permits was an “internal tribal matter” where policy only dealt with tribal members and natural resources within tribal territories
• concluding that no claim was stated under federal or Maine law because the Penobscot Nation’s regulation of stumpage permits was an “internal tribal matter” within the meaning of section 6206(1
• noting that “generalizations in this subject [of tribal authority] have become . .. treacherous” and that “[w]e tread cautiously and write narrowly”
• noting that the federal Declaratory Judgment Act does not “in itself, create[ ] a substantive cause of action”
• noting that the federal Declaratory Judgment Act does not “in itself, create[ ] a substantive cause of action”
• refusing to read the exception “as invoking all of prior Indian law” because “[t]hat would be inconsistent with the unique nature of the Maine settlement”

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