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...
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Who are the original takers? 😆😊
Velociraptor reparations now!
I say give it back to the indians ....
I bet we would see some mining get rolling then.
As for the the other land ... just make them cough up
a couple billion out of their endowments .. ditch a few over paid leftys and force them to create a product based on market forces.
It might be just what we need to bring down these leftist monoliths.
One of my first thoughts when reading about the massive reparations California wanted to make because of slavery....was....when will the Indians demand theirs.
Well here it is.
This nation is crumbling from so many directions. Divided we fall.
The indians fought wars and lost. By this reasoning we need to be considering reparations to England, Spain and Mexico
LOL! The same colleges that told Whites how evil they are for taking the land are now being asked to give it back - I find a bit of symmetry to it...🤣😂🤣😎
Yes, but you also have to recognize that you are in a war now, and your side is losing…
Indians are picking the low-hanging fruit.
True. :-0
Does not matter since the more recent tribes of savages were careful to kill all of the previous owners.
The sort of resolution that Rome used on Carthage.
Yeah, sure.
These late-comers wandered in across the Bering straits ice bridge about 12,000 years ago and began warring with, decimating, enslaving the preexisting european-based culture that had been there since before the START of the last ice age, maybe 39,000 years ago - you know, the culture that mined all that copper out of the great lakes area to send back to Mediterranean trade routes.
So a series of asteroid strikes take out all the megafauna and the original people, leaving the cave-dwelling asiatic folks behind to scrounge, forage, repopulate until europeans came back to reclaim their land.
That’s as good an origina mythology as any the modern day tribes and their shysters are trying to gaslight us with now.
They think they own the place.
An excellent observation.
How many fancy folk libs are busy living at the seaside in Martha's Vineyard, the California coastline or Hawaii, all the while pushing "seas are rising" blather?
How many fancy folk libs live in their enclaves while inner cities decay courtesy of their politics?
How many fancy folks libs jet around to preach about pollution and global warming?
How many fancy folk libs's alma maters -- on lands "stolen from native Americans" although there was no America then nor even the concept of "owned land" -- will defend their alma maters from forking over the land and rights to the "indigenous?" Or lobby taxpayers to foot the bill? Again. And again.
I would suggest 25% of their endowments to start!
As a Hobart grad, whose school was started before Lincoln was President, I FULLY support any reckoning for the Big Red
Make sure Syracuse faces the same disdain!
With all due respect, if you are not familiar with the Canadian assimilation history, you should read up on it.
I don’t think ANY Freeper would agree this wasn’t a complete horror show:
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/explained-canada-s-cultural-genocide-of-indigenous-people-47835
The Injuns are being manipulated to disenfranchise the White working class by people who speak with forked tongue and will give them nothing of value.
You knew this would be the result. Talk seriously about giving one group reparations and every self declared marginalized will claim they deserve them too.
You’re right.
Marxism never developed the necessary infrastructure for innovation, invention, progress, achievement and advancement. Islam’s the same.
Thats why the marxists and muslims are techno parasites.
Worst part? The parasites have spent the last 10 years pulling the west down at breakneck speed.
Obamanites
The poor faulkers have zero foresight.
Once America is gone, who is going to provide for progress?
Indians “owned” no land so it’s impossible to compensate them. Show me a title.
They stole the land from somebody else.
With all due respect, tribalism never produced a civilization.
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