{"id":20590,"date":"2021-10-28T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20590"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:40:21","slug":"daring-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/daring-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=nov21_fin_web&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=24&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Leaning in is just how Penobscot Nation Tribal Ambassador Maulian Dana stands.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Gwen Thompson<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You wrote \u00a0an article for Portland Magazine in 2018 called \u201cI\u2019m Not Your Mascot.\u201d Tell us about your role in getting LD 944 \u201cAn Act To Ban Native American Mascots in All Public Schools\u201d through the state legislature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My mascot-removal activism started way back in my teenage years, and my tribal-ambassador appointment has been a great opportunity to bring that into my current policy-making role at the government level. I collaborated with <strong>Representative Benjamin Collings<\/strong> (D-Portland) to submit legislation that was signed by <strong>Governor Mills<\/strong> in 2019. This law sends a really clear message that Maine has set a standard in education that we\u2019re not going to allow institutional racism in our schools. Maine was the first state to accomplish this, and this is one bright spot in a long, complicated past history between the tribes and the state of Maine. Getting <strong>Columbus Day<\/strong> changed to I<strong>ndigenous People\u2019s Day<\/strong> in Maine is another high point I\u2019ve personally been working on for quite some time around the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20629\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/daring-diplomat-fb-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"daring-diplomat-fb\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/daring-diplomat-fb-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/daring-diplomat-fb-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/daring-diplomat-fb-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/daring-diplomat-fb-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/daring-diplomat-fb-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/daring-diplomat-fb.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaning in is just how Penobscot Nation Tribal Ambassador Maulian Dana stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20649,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20590\/revisions\/20649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}