The question of who the rightful owner of the land atop which sits Ben & Jerry’s headquarters gained momentum after the ice cream giant posted a July 4 tweet insisting that the US was “stolen Indigenous land.” “The Abenaki people left the state of Vermont and New Hampshire and moved to Canada.” “They can prove no link to the Abenaki nation,” the chief told The Post. Google Maps Chief Rick O’Bomsawin of the Quebec-based Abenaki Bank Council of Odanak told The Post that if Ben & Jerry’s plans to return land to Indigenous tribes, it should be his group that receives it. O’Bomsawin’s comments came in response to recent claims put forth by Vermont-based Nulhegan Ban of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, whose chief has said it would be interested in seeing the return of the land.ĭon Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, one of four tribes descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont, told The Post last week that Ben & Jerry’s should reach out to him if it was “sincere” in starting a dialogue about the return of the land.īut O’Bomsawin says that the Vermont-based tribe, which received state recognition of its claims of Indigenous lineage, did so on the basis of “hearsay.” Two Canada-based Indigenous tribes are reportedly laying claim to the land where Ben & Jerry’s built its headquarters in Vermont. “The territory that they’re speaking of is actually my people’s territory. “This is my territory,” the Canada-based chief told The Post on Friday.

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