Chief of Abenaki tribe wants his land back

[beej]

https://www.newsweek.com/ben-jerrys-headquarters-vermont-indigenous-chief-stolen-land-1811532

An Indigenous tribe descended from the Native American nation that originally controlled the land in Vermont the Ben & Jerry's headquarters is located on would be interested in taking it back, its chief has said, after the company publicly called for "stolen" lands to be returned.

Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation—one of four descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont—told Newsweek it was "always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands," but that the company had yet to approach them.

It comes after the ice cream company was questioned as to when it would give up its Burlington, Vermont, headquarters—which sits on a vast swathe of U.S. territory that was under the auspices of the Abenaki people before colonization.

"The U.S. was founded on stolen Indigenous land," the company said in a statement ahead of Independence Day. "This year, let's commit to returning it."

No word from Ben or Jerry yet. But I can't imagine why they wouldn't just give it back.

[JParis]

My wife is Abenaki...

One of my Great, great, great great grandmothers on my paternal side was Hannah Dustin..

Hannah Duston (also spelled Dustin, Dustan, Durstan, Dustun, Dunstun, or Durstun) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 – March 6, 1736,[1] 1737 or 1738[2]) was a colonial Massachusetts Puritan woman who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William's War, with her newborn daughter, during the 1697 raid on Haverhill, in which 27 colonists, 15 of them children, were killed. In her account she stated that the Abenaki killed her baby soon after they were captured. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped ten of the Native American family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Duston

Sorry for the swerve   

[Incogneeto]

https://www.newsweek.com/ben-jerrys-headquarters-vermont-indigenous-chief-stolen-land-1811532

No word from Ben or Jerry yet. But I can't imagine why they wouldn't just give it back.

"COCAINE IN THE WHITEHOUSE"!!!!!

[Jeff]

But I can't imagine why they wouldn't just give it back.

Me either.
They're a shit ice cream, with shit woke beliefs.

Now, the real question is... Who did the Abenaki steal that land from? And who did their predecessor steal it from, and so on.
The first ones to sit on that land after the dinosaurs are the true land owners.

[RobertELee]

Me either.
They're a shit ice cream, with shit woke beliefs.

Now, the real question is... Who did the Abenaki steal that land from? And who did their predecessor steal it from, and so on.
The first ones to sit on that land after the dinosaurs are the true land owners.

But the dinosaurs were the first to shit on that land, they are the true owners!!