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Conquest and compensation: Blacks and Native Americans haven't agreed on a reparations framework. It's time to change the debate.
"You can have the mule; but the 40 acres are ours." --Pamela Kingfisher (Cherokee)
PAMELA KINGFISHER'S COMMENT, made in a dialogue between indigenous and African-descended peoples at the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in 2000, encapsulates the strain between indigenous peoples and peoples of African descent over reparations issues. Although a wide variety of demands are articulated under the banner of "reparations," indigenous peoples generally oppose the demand that the U.S. government give land to African Americans and other peoples of color. From Native peoples' perspectives, it is unreasonable to petition the U.S. for land because the U.S. has no land ...
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