Ben & Jerry's headquarters is in the western part of the historic territory of the Abenaki tribal confederacy but doesn't sit in any current tribal lands.
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation—one of four descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont—toldit was"always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands," but that the company had yet to approach them.
A view of Ben & Jerry's headquarters in Burlington, Vermont, in August 2017 and, inset, an exterior view of a Ben & Jerry's store in Miami on November 30, 2022. A tribe descended from the Native American nation that originally controlled the land the HQ is located on would be interested in taking it back, its chief has said.
While some say colonized ancestral lands should be at least partially returned, others say that it is impossible to decide which of the various groups to have claimed land throughout historyMaps show that the Abenaki—a confederacy of several tribes who united against encroachment from a rival tribal confederacy—controlled an area that stretched from the northern border of Massachusetts in the south to New Brunswick, Canada, in the north, and from the St.
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