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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Seems to be the Chinese.
Well then, just give them a participation trophy. That should settle them down.
Which is why God told the Israelites to effectively eliminate their enemies. He knew the descendants would always create problems.
Yes, the property deed did as much to eliminate the Indians as disease and technology. Just as a thought experiment, though, wonder if the Indians could have hired an attorney back in the 1700s to argue for them that the lands, say, west of the Allegeny’s or the Ohio River valley were theirs by tradition, basically a property claim “hallowed by usage and consecrated by time.” They could point to their burial grounds for proof of their long-term occupancy. Probably no colonial court would come down on their side though.
I heard Ben & Jerry’s corporate hq the other day. Lol, the chickens are coming home to roost.
Illegals will be wanting “reparations” next. After all, we kicked their asses out of the United States. Congratulations! You opened the MOTHER OF ALL CANS OF WORMS. LOL! Elections do have consequences. You should never fill out banana ballots with your head up your...
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In the early 1700's, the Cheyenne took the Black Hills from the Kiowa.
In 1776 the Lakota Sioux defeated the Cheyenne in war and took the Black Hills from them.
About 100 years later the US did the same to the Sioux.
Why does the first conquest confer legitimate title and the second doesn’t?
No problem!
Just pay for the improvements made to the land in the centuries since.
After all, what were they using it for?
How about “NO”…
Land was not “stolen”
Your grandpa got his butt whupped and had to move on.
It happens throughout history.
I laugh when people cry about “stolen land”.
When someone try’s to steal “your” land, you fight for it.
You might lose….just saying.
This is the opinion of a landowner.
Exactly, every square inch of land on this planet is stolen land!
I think so.
True! Almost every tribe took their hunting grounds from other tribes who were weaker than that tribe.
Here is proof they don’t want you to see. And this is just my short list! Read it quick as I have noticed many of my older links now go to “404 page not found.” The scurbbing of American History has begun.
https://frontierpartisans.com/3942/crow-creek-massacre/
https://bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/basketmaker-ii-cave-7-massacre-or-cemetery/
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/trail_dust/article_f30aa968-53bd-5b1c-88dc-c50b8f492058.html
Indians were nomadic. So they could literally claim the North American continent for that reason alone. They should be thankful that the English got to them first.
Your comment has absolutely NOTHING to do with what I am pointing out. Educate yourself on what happened in this disgraceful episode.
Considering the fact that most American universities have become indoctrination camps, I can do with more casinos.
Dude, all throughout time there have been what we call dispicable acts today. Given that they filled a graveyard the ring of vice perpetrated on innocent children by innocent and pure priests must have been wide. So, they had to bury the truth and hide from their sins.
Still to this day the tribalists do not want to assimilate.
Just like the Africans in America.
If you want to champion a cause, pick on pedophilia.
Pedophilia in the Islamic world. Mohammed had Ayesha, she was six when he married her, nine when he deflowered her. He was 54 or thereabouts. Now, all throughout the Islamic world, for all 1.8 billion, child brides are condoned. Every Islamic nation legalized pedophilia.
Islam too is tribal based. All food for thought about oppression and supremacy.
1. No human is “native” to anywhere on earth outside the Garden of Eden or Africa’s Great Rift Valley [pick one]. Ergo there are NO NATIVE AMERICANS.
2. Except possibly for some tribes in the Great Northwest, none of the present-day American Indian tribes were the original Asian settlers of the lands they now live on. Virtually all of them live on lands that were captured and re-captured in warfare time and again, four or five or ten times before the modern Indian settlers took possesion of them.
Peking man sues cromagnon man for stolen cave.
“Indians are picking the low-hanging fruit.”
Well, they are supposed to be adept at living off the land....
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