Wiscasset’s newly named Redskin’s Drive would become Micmac Drive, if selectmen agree to the change proposed by the same people who asked to call it Redskin’s Drive.

Selectmen’s Vice Chairman Ben Rines Jr., who made the motion Aug. 19 for Redskin’s Drive, said on Sept. 26 that he would be pleased to make the motion to revisit the board’s decision.

The road is a private road and he would support doing what the people on it would like, Rines said.

Michael Harvey, Sarah Harvey and Jeff Fortier make the offer in a Sept. 23 letter to the town.

“We would like to let the board (of) selectmen know that if they find it fit, to change our private drive name from Redskin’s Drive to Micmac Drive. To avoid further conflict or potential lawsuits with the Indian tribes in the state, we give our consent (to the name change),” the letter states. “But we would like to just continue to show our pride to our Indian heritage in the road that leads to our home by using my father’s, grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s side of our Indian heritage as the road name.”

Selectmen will discuss the letter at their next meeting on Oct. 7, Wiscasset Town Manager Marian Anderson said Sept. 26.

Fortier declined comment on Sept. 26. He recently told the Wiscasset Newspaper he didn’t think the road’s name would still be an issue, weeks after the board’s vote. He was kind of surprised, he said in a brief telephone interview on Sept. 19.

Neither Michael Harvey nor Sarah Harvey could be reached for comment Friday.

The residents’ letter follows a Sept. 4 one that Penobscot Nation Chief Kirk Francis wrote selectmen. In it, Francis criticizes selectmen’s Aug. 19 decision to name the road Redskin’s Drive at the residents’ request. The letter calls the word “redskin” extremely offensive, and calls on the board to change it.

Francis could not immediately be reached for comment on the residents’ proposal to change the name to Micmac Drive. Other officials at Penobscot Nation’s Indian Island office also did not immediately return a message. No one at Penobscot Nation has returned other recent calls by the Wiscasset Newspaper.

Selectman Bill Barnes, who seconded Rines’ motion to go with Redskin’s Drive, said Friday that he had not read the letter and could not comment until he had.

Wiscasset High School’s mascot changed from the Redskin to the Wolverine while the town was in Regional School Unit 12. After the Redskin’s Drive decision, Fortier’s girlfriend Ashley Gagnon said the name means that someone who lives on the road was a Redskin when that was the mascot.