Speaking of ice cream
, this thread tells me we need another thread to discuss favorite brands of ice cream!
As perhaps mentioned, an indigenous Native American chief in Vermont said he would be open to talking with ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's about taking back the land under its headquarters.
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, told the New York Post that he "looks forward to any kind of correspondence with the brand to see how they can better benefit indigenous people," noting that the company's South Burlington, Vermont, headquarters is on Western Abenaki land.
I suggest that going back a little further, you'll find the Abenaki tribe also took the land from another earlier tribe, and so on and so on. In fact, I think this calls for a title search HA.
The American natives were very violent towards each other. Whichever tribe was on a piece of land when white Europeans displaced them were far from the original occupants. There's evidence of at least one much earlier migration to the continent. We can assume the ancestors of the current natives stole their land and possibly exterminated them.
The pyramid-like temple structure found in the valley that is now occupied by Norris lake in NE TN, is one example. When it was discovered in 1930, the Cherokee explained that a tribe of mound builders were there originally, but they killed and drove them out.
Unless you take a very narrow view of the history of mankind (like some Abrahamic religions that believe the world is only 6000 years old) or if you live in a very remote, desolate, virtually uninhabitable area, you are most likely living on land that was taken by several peoples for thousands of years.
What I'm saying is, unless you are descended from some indigenous tribe of Pacific islander and live there, the chances that you are living on "stolen" land is extremely high ... virtually anywhere in the world.
American history is actually taught exactly the way it happened (mostly). We expose our scars and our truth in classrooms the way other nations never do. Other nations range from white-washing the past to outright denial of their true history. So American kids grow up with self-hate and guilt that children of other nations don't have. Not because their ancestors didn't do the same or worse ... but because their education failed to mention it. So our kids grow up believing we are terrible colonizers and everyone else lives in some b.s. utopia that doesn't exist.
May the Mulvaney Effect swoop in on Ben & Jerry's like a murderous miasma or a putrid phlogiston. And I hope the B&J parent company, Unilever, is pooping angry kittens right now.
Favorite brand of Ice Cream? ... Tillamook Ice Cream for the win !!!
