Local Native American Chief Responds to Ben & Jerry’s ‘Stolen Land’ Post

You know the old saying: “Great talkers are little doers.”

On Independence Day, the ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s tweeted, “This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”

The tweet included a link to the Ben & Jerry’s website, which added that we should start with Mount Rushmore. “The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life,” the company wrote.

The webpage urged readers to sign a petition to “return” Mount Rushmore to the Lakota people.

The campaign, probably thought up by a bunch of 25-year-olds in the marketing department, was most likely aimed at generating some summer publicity and causing a few more guilt-ridden snowflakes to drown their privilege in a pint of Chunky Monkey.

But the ice cream maker’s scheme, like one of its best-selling flavors, was half-baked.

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It turns out that Ben & Jerry’s corporate headquarters in South Burlington,