{"id":3218,"date":"2023-07-13T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2023-07-13T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T14:37:22","slug":"go-ahead-ben-jerrys-give-native-americans-back-the-hq-land-you-stole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/13\/go-ahead-ben-jerrys-give-native-americans-back-the-hq-land-you-stole\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Ahead, Ben & Jerry\u2019s, Give Native Americans Back The HQ Land You Stole"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the mega-giant ice cream maker Ben & Jerry\u2019s said last week that the U.S. should return \u201cstolen Indigenous land\u201d to Native Americans.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for a tribal leader to take the company up on its offer. You see, Ben & Jerry\u2019s headquarters in South Burlington, Vermont, actually sits on land that was once home to the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation.<\/p>\n

The band is one of four tribes descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont. On Friday, its chief, Don Stevens,\u00a0told<\/a><\/p>\n

the New York Post that he \u201clooks forward to any kind of correspondence with the brand to see how they can better benefit Indigenous people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the [Abenaki] traditional way of being, we are place-based people. Before recognized tribes in the state, we were the ones who were in this place,\u201d Stevens said, adding that his band views themselves as \u201cstewards of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHumans have a responsibility to take care of resources in places because we have the ability to destroy,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands throughout our traditional territories and providing opportunities to uplift our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the Bud Light controversy, Ben & Jerry\u2019s decided to ignite its own powder keg when it made a bold declaration just before July Fourth.\u00a0\u201cThe U.S. was founded on stolen Indigenous land,\u201d the company said in a statement ahead of Independence Day. \u201cThis year, let\u2019s commit to returning it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company added that its proposed movement was about \u201censuring that Indigenous people can again govern the land their communities called home for thousands of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

So now, the hyper-liberal company in one of the most liberal states in America can put its money where its mouth is by giving Native Americans their land back \u2014 just as it demanded everyone else do.<\/p>\n

Ben & Jerry\u2019s spends a lot of time virtue signaling. Last year, it ripped its parent company Unilever for doing business with a local licensee in Israel, in essence sidestepping a boycott of Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to believe it is inconsistent with Ben & Jerry\u2019s values for our ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,\u201d Ben & Jerry\u2019s wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the mega-giant ice cream maker Ben & Jerry\u2019s said last week that the U.S. should return \u201cstolen Indigenous land\u201d to Native Americans. It didn\u2019t take long for a tribal leader to take the company up on its offer. You see, Ben & Jerry\u2019s headquarters in South Burlington, Vermont, actually sits on land that was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}