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Native American Nonprofit: Colorado Was Built on $1.7 Trillion of Stolen Land
Breitbart ^ | 06/14/2024 | AMY FURR

Posted on 06/14/2024 12:50:57 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A report by a Native American-led nonprofit group claims indigenous homelands were taken by Colorado, and the state reaped mountains of money through that action.

The report shares about the apparent “dispossession” of $1.7 trillion worth of the indigenous homelands by the state and the United States, according to an Associated Press (AP) article published Friday. The outlet noted the report was compiled by the Truth, Restoration, and Education Commission (TREC).

In addition, the report claims that Colorado gained nearly $550 million in mineral extraction from those homelands. The AP article continued:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: candicdebaca; colorado; land; nativeamerican; sedition; stolen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Conquered does not equal stolen.


41 posted on 06/14/2024 2:09:19 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Stolen from whom exactly? Tribes fought each other over land...

As they say, losing wars has consequences.

For example, the Black Hills region has been inhabited by Indians for almost 10,000 years. The Arikira tribe arrive around 1500 A.D., followed by the Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa and Pawnee.

When the Lakota arrived in the 18th century they drove out the other tribes and claimed the land for themselves. The lands soon became sacred to the Lakota Sioux.

An interesting take on tribal relations is documented in R. Eli Paul's "The Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas."

Prior to the introduction of European horses and firearms, tribes mostly just counted coup. Their wars resulted in few casualties or death. After, their battles became much more bloody.

42 posted on 06/14/2024 2:12:25 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: xoxox

If they keep pushing for reparations, they’ll be going all the way back to Adam and Eve in the Garden Of Eden.


43 posted on 06/14/2024 2:17:32 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Organic Panic

That’s right.


44 posted on 06/14/2024 2:17:44 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You are correct.


45 posted on 06/14/2024 2:18:07 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They came here from Asia. No human was “indigenous” to this Hemisphere. Conservatives need to just start saying this out loud and ridiculing these absurd claims.


46 posted on 06/14/2024 2:19:14 PM PDT by montag813
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To: RainMan

Exactly.


47 posted on 06/14/2024 2:20:21 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They conveniently overlook how various tribes “stole” land from each other. Where many tribes were in the nineteenth century is not where they started out. And they waged war and inflicted depredations and slavery on each other. Could the conflicts between whites and Indians have turned out differently? Maybe. But it’s a very complex history and and there is plenty of dirt to go around, just as in history in general.


48 posted on 06/14/2024 2:28:13 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
They aren't looking for "their land back". They are looking for a payoff. $1.7 Trillion is an opening bid.

Someone will find the not-native behind this effort. You know there is one.

49 posted on 06/14/2024 2:35:50 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: frank ballenger
“Approximately 30,000 years ago, the Paleo-Indians, the ancestors of Native Americans, followed herds of animals from Siberia across Beringia, a land bridge connecting Asia and North America, into Alaska. By 8,000 B.C.E. BC, these peoples had spread across North and South America.”

FIFY

50 posted on 06/14/2024 2:36:30 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Come and take it back...


51 posted on 06/14/2024 2:39:17 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: moovova

Give it back, force them to rent to present occupants at a reasonable rate and pay curre t stepped up property taxes. Foreclose the moment they fail to. End.


52 posted on 06/14/2024 2:42:25 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)
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To: Singermom

“OK libs. Give it back.”

Not a bad idea if it was stolen, I do not know. In addition, give all federal lands aside from military and federal installations back to the respective states to use as each state sees fit.


53 posted on 06/14/2024 2:49:29 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: Fiji Hill

The left somehow gets their noses into things,and stirs the pot...


54 posted on 06/14/2024 4:01:51 PM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

55 posted on 06/14/2024 4:28:31 PM PDT by Dan Zachary
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Stolen from whom exactly? Tribes fought each other over land...

Yes, who did the last tribe steal it from?

56 posted on 06/14/2024 6:13:57 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

beaten by a superior culture


57 posted on 06/14/2024 6:49:22 PM PDT by coalminersson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen resources,” Candi CdeBaca stated. “You could be collecting those extra taxes from white-led businesses all over the city and redistributing them to black and brown-owned businesses.”

Why would “extra taxes” go to “black and brown-owned businesses” instead of to the tribes?


58 posted on 06/14/2024 7:43:18 PM PDT by StayAt HomeMother
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