UPDATE: Ben & Jerry’s Has a Brain Freeze as Tribe Takes Them Up On the Offer To Turn Over Their Land (townhall.com) . . ."Members of an indigenous tribe who are descendants of Native Americans have reportedly expressed interest in taking back the land now occupied by popular ice cream makers Ben & Jerry's after the company made a controversial call for America to return "stolen" land." . . .
UPDATE: After Slamming America, Hilarious Cartoon Brutally Reveals Ben & Jerry's Next Flavor Creation (thefederalistpapers.org)
"This controversy has arisen after their recent press release titled, “The US Was Founded on Stolen Indigenous Land—This July 4, Let’s Commit to Returning It.”
"Yet, the company’s headquarters in Vermont are said to be located on land that was reportedly once seized from Indigenous tribes.
"In the press release, Ben & Jerry’s advocated for returning the territory that currently hosts Mount Rushmore back to the Sioux people.
"The release argues that the federal government appropriated this land, a situation they liken to their desire for increased government regulation and control." . . .
To whom do all the previous occupants return the land? First some background:
1776: The Lakota Tribe STOLE The Black Hills (Mt Rushmore) From The Cheyenne Who STOLE It From Kiowa Tribe - . . .The Black Hills are a small isolated mountain range which rise up from the Great Plains in western South Dakota and extend into Wyoming. The name Black Hills is a translation of the Lakota Sioux Indian tribe who called them "Ȟe Sápa." And while that's true, it should be noted that the Cheyenne Indians called them "Moʼȯhta-voʼhonáaeva" for a hundred years or more before the Lakato ever arrived there... we do know that the Arikara Indian nation arrived there around 1100 AD. After reading about the Arikara, it is pretty much a given that they had the Black Hills first -- and the longest. If there are people who want to give the Black Hills "back to the Indians" as the saying goes, then it should be to the right tribe.
"The Lakota arrived in the region after getting kicked out of Minnesota in the late 1770s by other tribes. The Lakota took over the region after they drove out the Cheyenne Indian nation. The Lakota people, and Teton Sioux, are part of a confederation of seven related Sioux tribes, the "Očhéthi Šakówiŋ" or "Seven Council Fires." Among tribes, the wars were more brutal than most realize. Warfare among the Native American Indian nations were brutal and not unlike savage warfare anywhere else in the world. Waging war did not always turn out well for the Lakota. Their wars with Anishnaabe and Cree nations pushed the Lakota west and into the Great Plains in the mid to late-1600s. The Anishinaabe, who the Lakota called the "Chippewa" (Ojibwe), fought with the use of muskets supplied to them by the French and the British." . . . (Emphases in the original.)
RedState
Congratulations, Unilever, you may have a “Bud Light” moment underway, and it would be richly deserved, given your hot take. As Bud Light has found out, virtue signaling to the woke can be a very costly thing.
"I reported on the bad move that Ben & Jerry’s made on the Fourth of July. When most companies were recognizing the day and honoring America, the ice cream company decided to attack the country. They tweeted that the land the U.S. is on was “stolen” and that the U.S. should give it back to the indigenous people.". . .. . ."They also claimed, “The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life.”
"But now they’re being called out on their virtue signaling by those very people whose land they are living on. Now that the company has said what it did, Don Stevens wants to talk with them. Stevens is the chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, one of four tribes descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont. He said he “looks forward to any kind of correspondence with the brand to see how they can better benefit Indigenous people.”
Looks like Indian leaders would like a word with Ben & Jerry's... - American Thinker . . ."That's some sanctuary state they've got there -- with every state out there called on to condone open borders, while the Massachusetts enclave remains safely off limits to mass illegal immigration.
"They say one thing to scold the rest of us, and virtue-signal their virtue, calling for impossible policies out of white liberal guilt -- and then when called on the carpet, do another."
