Posted on 09/14/2013 6:47:53 PM PDT by markomalley
The protesters who uprooted a 9/11 memorial display at a liberal arts college in Vermont claimed they were defending Abenaki tribal lands and taking a stand against U.S. imperialism.
The Abenaki tribe’s response? “Disgusting.”
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe, said his tribe did not approve of the actions taken by five people–including one student–at Middlebury College last week. (RELATED: Student destroys 9/11 memorial, citing U.S. imperialism)
“We didn’t know anything about this and if we had we certainly wouldn’t have sanctioned it,” he said in a statement to The Addison Independent.
The 9/11 memorial display consisted of 2,977 flags placed in a field on Middlebury’s campus. The flags represent the nearly 3,000 people who died in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The College Republicans and Democrats have cooperated to erect the display annually for years.
But this year, liberal activists uprooted all the flags on the pretext of defending the Abenaki tribe’s rights. The field is tribal land, they claimed, and Native American beliefs prohibit disturbing the earth on hallowed ground.
But Steven said there’s no evidence that the field is an Abenaki burial site. And even if it was, the flags would be a welcome presence.
“Our burial sites honor our warriors and their bravery,” said Stevens. “Putting flags in the earth to honor bravery would not be disrespectful.”
Two people admitted to participating in the destruction of the memorial. One is a student, Anna Shireman-Grabowski. She is also a contributor to Salon.
The college condemned the incident as vandalism, and is investigating.
“There is always something to learn from differences of opinion,” wrote Middlebury President Ron Liebowitz in an email to The Daily Caller. “In this case, the disrespectful methods of the protesters overshadowed anything that might have been learned from the convictions they claimed to promote. We will not tolerate this kind of behavior.”
“Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe, said his tribe did not approve of the actions taken by five people–including one student–at Middlebury College last week. “
Five little, four little, three little FAKE Indians.
My spot on the line might be a tad bit on the thick side.
The 9/11 memorial display consisted of 2,977 flags placed in a field on Middlebury’s campus. The flags represent the nearly 3,000 people who died in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The College Republicans and Democrats have cooperated to erect the display annually for years. But Stevens said there’s no evidence that the field is an Abenaki burial site. And even if it was, the flags would be a welcome presence. "Our burial sites honor our warriors and their bravery," said Stevens. "Putting flags in the earth to honor bravery would not be disrespectful."
Beautiful...Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe - thank you. Thanks for standing up to liberal elite blowhards... for all of us.
Complaints by Indians are becoming tiresome.
Yeah but this time the Indians are actually supporting the right side and saying these liberal animal retards had not only no business speaking for them, but that what was done was disgusting. So this time I support their complaint.
There is a long tradition of honoring those who have died in battle by the first nations people. Of course they would find this act of disrespect to be disgusting. The leftist ‘wannabe Indians’ do not have the first clue as to how to honor the departed. The ancestors weep
Precisely.
You just make a better wall.
We already are.
One or two people could likely have stopped this had they caught them in the act.
There is no such thing as a “native” American. NO humans were indigenous to this continent. ALL were immigrants. Enough with the lionizing of the Indians already.
Since the little instigator feels so guilty for being a "settler" on "Native American" lands, why doesn't she go back to the country of her own "settler" ancestors? Except she'd be a foreigner there.
These types of people are incapable of feeling guilt for their own actions here and now, so they pile all that guilt on the shoulders of history.
These are real Indians. Not white Leftists speaking for Indians or pretending to be Indians.
“We will not tolerate this kind of behavior.”
Want to bet?
The college condemned the incident as vandalism, and is investigating. Yeah, investigating. Maybe they'll find something in, say 50 or 60 years. Wouldn't want to rush it. It's the favorite Obamanoid response: Delay, delay, delay. "We need more time to study this!"
“My intention was not to cause pain but to visibilize the necessity of honoring all human life and to help a friend heal from the violence of genocide that she carries with her on a daily basis as an indigenous person,” she wrote in a statement. “While the American flags on the Middlebury hillside symbolize to some the loss of innocent lives in New York, to others they represent centuries of bloody conquest and mass murder. As a settler on stolen land, I do not have the luxury of grieving without an eye to power. Three thousand flags is a lot, but the campus is not big enough to hold a marker for every life sacrificed in the history of American conquest and colonialism.”
This kind of flowery pseudo intellectual anti-American hatred is typical of the left and no doubt was something learned in a university course. They then use the distorted view of history taught by other America-haters to justify their detestable actions.
Seriously? This guy thinks it’s okay to shoot people and my response gets deleted? ooooookay....
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