Posted on 10/19/2022 3:48:43 PM PDT by NoLibZone
PORTLAND, Maine — In November, Portland residents are being asked to approve sweeping changes to the city’s charter including controversial items that would result in a strengthened mayor, a financially independent school board and a citizen-led police oversight board.
But, amid the ongoing fury, one charter change question among the eight-question list has been largely overshadowed. It would make Portland the only municipality that officially recognizes in its charter that it sits on unceded land, stolen from Indigenous peoples by European colonizers.
The question, which would alter the governing document’s preamble, was written by charter commissioner Pat Washburn.
It reads, in part, “Portland is located in the unceded territory of the Aucocisco Band of the Wabanaki … European colonizers displaced Wabanaki people by force and went on to displace and harm indigenous peoples throughout what is now Maine and the United States.”
It goes on to say, “We acknowledge that displacement and that harm with sorrow, even as we celebrate and honor the Wabanaki knowledge and culture that continue to thrive in the Tribal Nations that have and always will call this place, the Dawnland, their home.”
Though only symbolic, with no repertory actions attached, Portland lawyer and Passamaquoddy tribal member Michael-Corey Hinton thinks the change is a good start.
“There’s no doubt that this is the very least that can be done,” Hinton said. “It’s important for people to understand why they don’t see Native Americans in southern Maine anymore.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bangordailynews.com ...
I often wonder why in debates Democrats are not asked if they feel the US is on stolen land.
There goes any chance of getting title insurance.
It sounds like the admission could lead to thousands of lawsuits against home and business owners.
Portland Oregon will surely give it back to the Indians. Might be better if they did. Tomahawks might deter junkies on the street.
“European colonizers displaced Wabanaki people by force...”
Who did the Wabanaki people displace - by force or otherwise - or were they there since the beginning of mankind?
They are also upset that they allowed even one Spotted Owl to lose its nesting location due to logging done mostly by cis white males.
Though only symbolic, with no repertory actions attached, Portland lawyer and Passamaquoddy tribal member Michael-Corey Hinton thinks the change is a good start.
“A good start”. They won’t stop with this. They’ll want more. Next step — reparations.
The Indians didn’t know from chain of title. Whoever lived there before the Wabanaki were simply pushed off the land by the Wabanaki.
“It’s important for people to understand why they don’t see Native Americans in southern Maine anymore.”
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Because they assimilated like Irish, Italians, Germans, Norwegians etc. and became Americans. These wanna-be’s long for the good old days when they could look down on Lo, The Poor Indian from the lofty towers of their virtue signalling castles.
Now ask these idiots what happened to the people that lived there before their precious tribe.
Every taxpayer voting yes on this should then get a bill for their share of the cost of reimbursing the Wabanakis.
Say $50,000 each. They can get a second job coding or something.
It’s only fair.
The Spotted Owl is an issue for the OTHER wacko Communist Portland! ;)
Let’s try that in Istanbul (not Constantinople), Kaliningrad, Gdańsk, Strasbourg, etc.
Just an aside, I recently bought Lincoln Logs and cowboys and Indians figurines for my grandson. I am looking forward to showing him how to play with them at Christmas.
Bullcrap.
So much land here was bought and paid for and traded for.
Oops!
So question... does anyone.. anyone think that one and only one Indian Tribe ever occupied that land? We all were tribes once including Europeans we were tribal we know how that went.
Tribal peoples are a nomadic and be war with each other European tribal people did it Native American tribal people did it don’t be such self righteous idiots
And to be honest we’re not muchdifferent than that now or you can tell me that the Ur the world has been staying static for how long
If it sits in stolen land then the city must abdicate and abandon the city and their power base .
No problem. then raise the city turn it back to grass and trees the send people to Bangor. There the woke-stupid problem is solved. one less democratic hole to worry about
So what we learn from this is that there is some correlation between naming a city Portland and the wisdom of its residents.
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