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 ...
Sure, give ‘em the land back, lock ‘em in it, and make ‘em live like the stone age savages they were when Europeans arrived.
Wars really do never end. This is just warfare in the form of lawfare.
Everything is working according to plan: “Overthrow the system and replace it with a Marxist dictatorship.”
Return it to the buffalo!
Take them back and make more casinos?
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.
Ben and Jerrys is on stolen Indian land
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.
Why the hell did Cornell get a million acres?
Exactly. Just like how it was when the pilgrims arrived!
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.
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”?
Blah blah blah.
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.
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...
Per the above, Cornell has 420,000 acres of mineral rights...
How does one give back land that Native Americans said no one owned?
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.
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