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\nBen and Jerry’s Salutes America!<\/p>\n
\nBen and Jerry’s Salutes America!<\/p>\n
The ice cream maker caused a firestorm with a July 4 tweet that America was founded on ‘stolen land’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n By Louis Casiano FOXBusiness<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Don Stevens \u2014 chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation \u2014 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.<\/p>\n “If you look at the [Abenaki] traditional way of being, we are place-based people,” Stevens told the Post. “Before recognized tribes in the state, we were the ones who were in this place.”<\/p>\n The remarks came days after the ice cream maker said in a July 4 tweet that America should return “stolen indigenous land.”<\/p>\n “This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the U.S. exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,” the ice cream maker tweeted.<\/p>\n The company said that while July 4 festivities like fireworks, parades and barbecues are entertaining, they “distract” from the fact America was settled on stolen land. In a news release, it said the U.S. should commit to returning the land by starting with giving Mount Rushmore to the Lakota peoples along with a petition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n