Ben & Jerry’s known as on the U.S. to return “stolen indigenous land” to American Indians throughout its Independence Day message final week. Now a tribe in Vermont is asking the well-known ice cream firm to personally partake in that effort.

Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, informed the New York Post on Friday that Ben & Jerry’s headquarters in South Burlington is situated on Western Abenaki land.

If the corporate is “sincere,” Mr. Stevens informed the newspaper, then he “looks forward to any kind of correspondence with the brand to see how they can better benefit Indigenous people.”

“If you look at the [Abenaki] traditional way of being, we are place-based people,” the chief informed the Post. “Before recognized tribes in the state, we were the ones who were in this place.”

Mr. Stevens mentioned that the Abenaki individuals view themselves as “stewards of the land.”

The state of Vermont acknowledges 4 tribes which are descended from the Abenaki individuals, together with the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe. The Abenaki Alliance informed Fox News Digital that their individuals had inhabited the land that included Vermont for 12,000 years.

Ben & Jerry’s July 4 message took intention particularly at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, and known as on the U.S. to return the land to the Lakota Sioux tribe.

Republican Gov. Kristi Noem got here to the protection of her state’s most well-known monument after the message went viral final week.

“We can learn from the men on that mountain, we can do better, but boy, they led us through some challenging times,” Mrs. Noem informed Fox News on Thursday. “We should be proud of America and knock off what Ben & Jerry’s is doing.”

Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield co-founded Ben & Jerry‘s in 1978. They offered the corporate in 2000, and as a part of the settlement, the corporate has maintained its voice in social causes.

It has lengthy supported Democrats and liberal causes.

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