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Native American groups join the call for reparations and target colleges who took land from tribes and only exist 'because of everything that was taken'
Daily Mail ^ | 7/10/23 | James Gordon

Posted on 07/10/2023 2:40:23 AM PDT by Libloather

Native American groups are now joining the call for reparations centuries after hundreds of tribes had land taken from them by 'land-grab universities and colleges.'

An estimated 10.7 million acres of land was taken from 250 tribes following the signing of the Morrill Act by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862.

This law converted tribal lands into initial sites for land-grant higher education institutions in many states.

Institutions such as the University of Minnesota, which received 94,440 acres of land, and Cornell University in New York that received more than 987,000 acres are being targeted. Cornell, in total, received land in 15 states - all at prices far below a fair market value.

Now, as several states and cities consider reparations for black Americans, the movement is serving as the impetus for Native American tribes who also believe they also deserve payment for the stolen land.

'You have these schools that have tens of millions of dollars at their disposal, but they are not looking at any ways they can improve living situations for Indigenous peoples today,' said An Garagiola, a descendant of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa to the Washington Post.

'Their existence as institutions, as schools of learning, are only there today because of everything that was taken.'

In response to the demands for reparations from so call 'land-grab universities,' colleges and universities across the nation are now grappling with the need to make amends.

Cornell University, for example, has begun a research project to account for the land it acquired from Native communities.

In 2021, the University of Wisconsin at Madison displayed the flag of the Ho-Chunk Nation on campus to acknowledge the land taken from the tribe.

The University of California has promised to offer free tuition to select Native American students as part...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: casinos; college; evanston; illinois; land; marxism; native; nativeamericans; reparations; tribes
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Sure, but who did they take it from?
1 posted on 07/10/2023 2:40:23 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Sure, give ‘em the land back, lock ‘em in it, and make ‘em live like the stone age savages they were when Europeans arrived.


2 posted on 07/10/2023 2:44:03 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Wars really do never end. This is just warfare in the form of lawfare.


3 posted on 07/10/2023 2:45:47 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Libloather

Everything is working according to plan: “Overthrow the system and replace it with a Marxist dictatorship.”


4 posted on 07/10/2023 2:57:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Libloather

Return it to the buffalo!


5 posted on 07/10/2023 3:02:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Libloather

Take them back and make more casinos?


6 posted on 07/10/2023 3:06:54 AM PDT by teacherwoes (I am Philip Nolan )
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To: Libloather

Meanwhile, it’s reported that 2022 WORLD SERIES OF POKER PLAYERS who DID NOT finish in the money are DEMANDING REPARATIONS from players who DID finish in the money as well as from event sponsors.


7 posted on 07/10/2023 3:08:31 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: Libloather

Ben and Jerrys is on stolen Indian land


8 posted on 07/10/2023 3:13:54 AM PDT by Craftmore
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s all methane to me. Hot air.

Indians need to pull their bootstraps up for their deplorable conditions today. They don’t want to fall into the white man’s systems.. Cuzz their redskinned, and whitey white. Africans are the same... All for one reason, tribalism. The African culture is alive in afro Americans. I don’t care how much money you throw at these jackwagons, at the end of the day they’ll still suffer deplorable conditions.
The problem that we both suffer is tribalism.

Only they can work their way through it.

Whitey created his magna carta over 800 years ago and in doing so he created a pathway for progress that no one else could do.


9 posted on 07/10/2023 3:20:43 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Libloather

Why the hell did Cornell get a million acres?


10 posted on 07/10/2023 3:21:11 AM PDT by digger48
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To: teacherwoes

Exactly. Just like how it was when the pilgrims arrived!


11 posted on 07/10/2023 3:25:56 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: himno hero
Absolutely.

Some men may hate the fact that the path to freedom was paved by the white man, but, at the moment, there is no other way than that provided by America.

12 posted on 07/10/2023 3:43:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Libloather

Hmmmm. Seems the “indigenous” were just squatters whose ancestors wandered into the land and stayed. Europeans came along and squatted, too.

In the modern definition of things, could these European settlers now be called “indigenous”?


13 posted on 07/10/2023 3:46:23 AM PDT by plangent
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To: Libloather

Blah blah blah.


14 posted on 07/10/2023 3:55:34 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: RoosterRedux

And Biden and the obamanites want to pull it all down while empowering Marxists (China) and muslims of the UN.

Its a giant step backwards for mankind.


15 posted on 07/10/2023 3:56:18 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Libloather

https://cals.cornell.edu/american-indian-indigenous-studies/about/land-acknowledgment

This is interesting. Per the above, in addition to the land acquisitions, Cornell retains mineral rights in the U.S. Midwest and Southwest...


16 posted on 07/10/2023 3:59:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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Cornell real estate FAQ

Per the above, Cornell has 420,000 acres of mineral rights...

17 posted on 07/10/2023 4:01:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla

https://www.mineralholders.com/new-york/ithaca/cornell-university/4359024

Interesting list.


18 posted on 07/10/2023 4:03:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Libloather

How does one give back land that Native Americans said no one owned?


19 posted on 07/10/2023 4:05:55 AM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: himno hero
Marxism is sold to people (and tribes) who think like children. It looks so pretty, with everyone sharing and working together for the common good.

This is one of the reasons Marxists have transformed America's academic institutions into giant kindergartens with safe spaces and silly, infantile degree programs. They are producing more children-minded adults who will buy into their vapid ideas of "sharing."

That said, it is what it is. Collectivism will always be with us and, even if it wins from time to time, it stands in opposition to reality itself. And as they say, reality bats last.

20 posted on 07/10/2023 4:06:38 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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