Charles Norman Shay was believed to be the last of roughly 500 Native American soldiers who came ashore at Normandy, France ...

Shay, who grew up on Indian Island, near Old Town, was an Army medic during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. He ...

Charles Norman Shay died Dec. 3 at age 101. He was a citizen of the Penobscot Nation who saved fellow soldiers storming Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944.

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...

Charles Shay, a Penobscot Nation member who was awarded the Silver Star and French Legion of Honor, died Wednesday at the age ...

Decorated Army Veteran Charles Norman Shay, who at 19 saved lives at Omaha Beach on D-Day, has died. A citizen of the ...

Charles Norman Shay has been called a remarkable hero who embodied the best of our state. Mainers are remembering and ...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal by the Penobscot Indian Nation in its fight with Maine over ownership and regulation of the tribe’s namesake river. It was a bitter defeat for the ...

Native Americans marching in support of one of several tribal sovereignty bills pass by the governor's mansion on April 11, 2022, in Augusta, Maine. On Monday, April 18, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Four Native Americans who say they were abused by three Roman Catholic priests on their reservation in Maine are the latest to bring lawsuits since the state fully lifted the ...