It's ... it's beautiful.
I absolutely love land acknowledgements. They're such great comedic relief for these trying times!
The Democratic National Committee wishes to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time immemorial.
"Lands that have been stewarded"?
"Time immemorial"?
You mean tribes that travelled to the Americas from other continents over the last few thousand years and proceeded to fight each other for thousands of years?
They haven't been here since "time immemorial." They aren't the magical elves of Lothlórien!
We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands. We pay our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals.
The noble savages protected these lands until the barbaric white man polluted it with his presence!
Guys, this stuff is such a joke.
My great-great grandfather was full-blooded Cherokee.
My ancestor George Abbott also came to Massachusetts in the late 1600s. Other English ancestors of mine include a traveller aboard the Mayflower and the first girl to be born in one of the Carolina colonies in the early 1600s.
In other family lines, I descend from French Huguenots who fled religious persecution for Michigan, Irish settlers who made their way to Missouri, and German refugees who made for Wisconsin.
ALL of these can be considered "native" Americans today.
How long does a man's family need to live in a place before he is a "native"? I have ancestors from England who have lived here for 400 years. Is that not enough time to call myself a "native" American?
After all, the British people are being told by their woke overlords that Pakistanis, Ethiopians, and Afghanis who arrived in their ancestral homeland within the last few years are to be called British!
While we meet in Chicago, we also recognize and honor the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations.
Ah, the Anishinaabe. They have a fun history. Their last major struggles included the Beaver Wars, a series of conflicts in the 1600s with the Iroquois, who began to expand and conquer other tribes, including the Wenro, Hurons, and Anishinaabe groups like the Algonquin and Oijibwe. The Iroquis wanted to get rich by seizing the fur trade across all of northeastern Canada and America.
As woke Wikipedia says:
The Iroquois effectively destroyed several large tribal confederacies, including the Mohicans, Huron (Wyandot), Neutral, Erie, Susquehannock (Conestoga), and northern Algonquins, with the extreme brutality and exterminatory nature of the mode of warfare practised by the Iroquois causing some historians to label these wars as acts of genocide committed by the Iroquois Confederacy. They became dominant in the region and enlarged their territory, realigning the American tribal geography. The Iroquois gained control of the New England frontier and Ohio River valley lands as hunting ground from about 1670 onward.
The fighting was fierce all the way through the modern Midwest:
The Iroquois quickly overran Shawnee holdings in central Ohio, forcing them to flee into Miami territory. The Miamis were a powerful tribe and brought together a confederacy of their neighboring allies, including the Pottawatomie and the Illini confederation who inhabited Michigan and Illinois. The majority of the fighting was between the Anishinaabeg Confederacy and the Iroquois Confederacy.
The Anishinaabe went on to fight the British as allies of the French, then allied with the British against America in the War of 1812.
Back to the DNC:
We acknowledge the many other tribes who consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten.
The reason for acknowledging these tribes is not merely because they want to be inclusive to the 9,000 or so Menominee who live in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
They are reminding the rest of us that we don't actually own our land.
Democrats continue to support tribes as they advocate for the United States to uphold treaty and trust responsibilities. We applaud that in 2024, under the Biden-Harris Administration, the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation became the first federally recognized Tribal Nation in Illinois in 175 years, when the U.S. Department of the Interior placed 130 acres of the Shab-eh-nay reservation in nearby DeKalb County into trust.
There's a lot of criticism that the U.S. government rightly deserves in its handling of tribal groups.
It is also admirable to want to build bridges with people who have their own unique culture, language, and history.
But what the DNC is doing is virtue signaling their wokeness at the expense of telling the truth about history.
That's why they can't even read the names of the tribes correctly!
Like I said, comedic relief!
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