June 6, 2021
GLOBALIZATION IS AMERICANIZATION:
Native American tribe in Maine buys back island taken 160 years ago (Alice Hutton, 4 Jun 2021, The Guardian)
The advert painted an idyllic picture of White's Island.For $449,000 you could buy 143 acres of forests with sweeping views of the rugged shoreline of Big Lake in Maine, on the east coast of the United States. "[It's] a unique property ... steeped in history ... with only two owners in the last 95 years," wrote the real estate agent from privateislandsonline.com.In fact, Kuwesuwi Monihq, or Pine Island, is its original name, and it technically has just one true "caretaker"; the Passamaquoddy: a small tribe of 3,700 Native Americans who had lived there for at least 10,000 years. [...]In March, with a grant from conservation charities, the tribe raised $355,000, and finally bought the island back.
Many of our ancestors would be surprised how readily the Natives have adopted capitalism; we oughtn't be. The End of History spares no one in the long run.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 6, 2021 12:00 AM