
In episode six hosts Laura Wilson and Ece Turnator analyze the 2021 interview with Darren Ranco of the Penobscot Nation and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine about the importance of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the Nation and the University in 2018. The MOU exemplifies a welcome break from the past that rests on an intentional history of genocide (as in the Phipps Proclamation of 1755) and various attempts at dispossession (as in the Maine Indian Rights Claims Settlement Act of 1980).