Sunday Bonus Podcast-Obsession With Indigenous Stolen Land

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Speaker 2 (01:16):
The Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's been a few days now, and I didn't I
held these this this back because I wanted to. I
wanted to share it. Democrats held their summer meeting and
it went exactly as you would expect it to go.
They started with a land acknowledgment. Now I know you
might not know what that means, but I want to
make clear what this is before they can hold their

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meeting in Mogadishu Minneapolis. They had the first uh give
give thanks to the gods of Indigenous people that we
don't we don't own this land. We stole this land.
Where we are right now, we're on stolen land. We
want to make sure we know that.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
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Speaker 2 (01:59):
Quay and dow.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Good morning, DNC members, friends and relatives. Let's talk about
the land for a second. The DNC acknowledges and honors
the Dakota Oyata, the Dakota people who are the original
stewards of the lands and waters of Minneapolis. The Dakota
cared for the lands, lakes in the Wakpatanka, the Great River,
the Mississippi River for thousands of years before colonization. This

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land was not claimed or traded. It's a part of
a history of broken treaties and promises, and in many
ways we still live in a system built to suppress
Indigenous people's cultural and spiritual history. As democrats, I ask
of every one of you to not allow land acknowledgements
like these to simply be the checking of a box.

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Be curious, ask questions, ensure our neighbor Native neighbors are heard,
and work in partnership with your indigenous communities. Honor the
legacy of this land and its people by engaging today
with each other with honesty, humility, respect and compassion. Uh

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Jimmy gwtch and thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
This whole idea of land acknowledgment is absurd. This is
the white man's guilt. Oh uh, we're sorry that we've
built the greatest country in the history of mankind. Let's
tell all the people from the craphole countries who've come
here that we're sorry that we fought the Indians, which
is what the Indians did to other Indians. Yeah, we're

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sorry that we vanquished them. We're sorry that we were successful.
We would rather live in the society that they would
have brought to us. And what do you think that
would look like. There's this idea that the that the
Indigenous people were pure, pure. There were savages, they were
cruel and vicious and by the way, not very technically advanced.

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Oh but they're the pure people, the back to nature,
all your Granola Colorado people. They love to tell you
how the Indian was pure, Like we're at an Outlawed
Josie Wales episode.

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