https://civileats.com/2024/02/12/the-land-back-movement-is-also-about-foodways/ Daily News and Commentary About the American Food System Wed, 14 Feb 2024 04:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://civileats.com/2024/02/12/the-land-back-movement-is-also-about-foodways/#comment-309457 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 04:52:21 +0000 https://civileats.com/?p=55179#comment-309457 I’m more interested in Chief Red Bears fighting to get their land back and to be recognized as a tribe. My grandmother and mother suffered from hate and prejudice in North Dakota because of their indigenous ancestry. The moving of the US boundary, which misplaced many of the Red River members in Canada, placed them in North Dakota. To this day after the government stole their land. They have been fighting to reclaiming their hunting ground and some of the land that was taken from them. The story of Black American people who were captured and sold as slaves by their people and the whites is another story. True! both have suffered but I believe it is time to focus on the horror and genocide that befell the very people who were here first, the Native people. The rest of this country has no idea what is still happening today to the indigenous people and to our only home this Earth. I applaud the work your doing but don’t mix it with other horrors that befell the blacks. Today they alone have been gaining ground to honor their ancestors that died being slaves. When you mix the ethnicity of others, into one large melting pot it loses the potency of your protest. I am not a bigot, my son in law and his family is black and they were slaves to a native tribe in the southern part of this country. They were not subject to the torture and death of the plantation owners, but they were never treated as equals, as were the many black of the past. WE are all a melting pot of ethnic groups and many have faced genocides , even the Irish who were starved to death by an intentional potato famine started by land owners. This countries history is a shameful past of death and destruction of other human beings because of others who wanted power, greed and the land. This horror has never ended and its time to stand up for the people who were the first Nation of this country. When we gain power then step forward with outstretched arms to honor those still fighting one step at a time, one ethnic group at a time or we will lose because it becomes to much for those in power and they will turn their backs on us saying its the past so leave it alone. Its the past and the future if we don’t stand up one ethnic group at a time. So lets start with those who were here first, the indigenous nations.

]]> https://civileats.com/2024/02/12/the-land-back-movement-is-also-about-foodways/#comment-309455 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:26:28 +0000 https://civileats.com/?p=55179#comment-309455 We appreciate this well written article. Thanks to Tilsen, Warren, Kavon Ward, Biden app.of Deb Haaland. We spend pleasant time with the conf. Salish Kootenai tribe on that 1800 acres acres of paradise. Coalitions described here intelligently, allow for productive change.
i have always doubted traditional History. Please avail yourself to a much more reality inspired history. “1491” and “1493” by
informed author Charles Mann. We must bring back the working ecology that was unspeakably stolen. Bruce

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