Maps show that the Abenaki—a confederacy of several tribes who united against encroachment from a rival tribal confederacy—controlled an area that stretched from the northern border of Massachusetts in the south to New Brunswick, Canada, in the north, and from the St. Lawrence River in the west to the East Coast.
This would put Ben & Jerry's headquarters, located in a business park in southern Burlington, within the western portion of this historic territory—though it does not sit in any modern-day tribal lands.
Ben and Jerry do not care as they sold the company to Unilever years ago and it’s Unilever’s money, not theirs. Better that natives take Ben and Jerry’s homes, property and money as reparations for misappropriating their lands for the sake of unleashing Cherry Garcia on the unsuspecting public. Yeech!
It wasn’t thousands of years.
“While some say colonized ancestral lands should be at least partially returned, others say that it is impossible to decide which of the various groups to have claimed land throughout history it should be returned to.”
They need to go after Manhattan. $24 was a steal. While they are at it, I believe the New York Yankees need to change its name because it is condescending to people from the north. I would press for that immediately.
I think Ben and Jerry should also give the Indians all of the money they made (and any assets purchased with it) from making and selling their ice cream on stolen land, from milk from cows grazing on stolen land. That would be around $300 million.
“Return the ‘stolen land’” is nothing more than the American Indian version of “reparations”. A bit of “victim envy” is clearly in play.
Karma
“But THAT’S DIFFERENT!!” /s
“*D’OH!!!*”
“Way out in the islands and the coconut trees
The pearly shells and the tropical breeze
There’s a hill-billy gal from Tennessee
My Hill-Billy Hula Gal!
“She’s had enough of the hills an’ me
So she’s takin’ hula lessons in Waikiki
I guess she’s right where she wants to be
My Hill-Billy Hula Gal...
“She never used to give a hoot
For coconuts or taro root
She’s a country girl livin’ in the Islands now
She’s tryin’ to get the hula girls to show her how
“When she gets through with this fantasy
C’mon back to Tennessee
Back with me where she’s s’posed t’be
My Hill-Billy Hula Gal!
“My Hill-Billy Hoo-aloo-la Gal!!!”
—Music and lyrics by Junior Brown
All the historic wrongs perpetuated by democrats (and their leftist’s brethren) throughout all time.. can only be made right by seizing all their assets... followed by their execution.
Problem solved.
The irony here is more delicious than B&Js ice cream.