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May 27, 2025
Jack Montgomery
News

King Charles Engages in Cringeworthy ‘Land Acknowledgement’ While Opening Canadian Parliament.

PULSE POINTS:

❓What Happened: King Charles III delivered his first in-person Speech from the Throne in Canada, opening with a so-called “land acknowledgment” and endorsing the liberal agenda of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority government.

👤 Who’s Involved: King Charles III, the Algonquin Anishinaabe people, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

🧾Key Quote: “We are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people,” the King said.

⚠️Fallout: The King’s remarks were seen as affirming progressive land ownership narratives and indirectly criticizing President Donald J. Trump’s America First.

📌 Significance: Charles’s speech reflects a sharp pivot from traditional neutrality to overt political signaling—endorsing globalism, challenging U.S. influence, and parroting leftist rhetoric on land and immigration in his official role as Canada’s monarch.

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King Charles III has delivered his first Speech from the Throne as King of Canada in Ottawa, the first offered by a Sovereign in person, rather than by the Governor-General who represents him in countries beyond the United Kingdom, since the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. However, he began it with a so-called “land acknowledgement,” implying that Indians—as Canadian natives are officially termed—are the true owners of the land Ottawa stands on. The Democrats announced their 2024 platform with a similar acknowledgment in the U.S.

“I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people,” the King said from the throne in the Senate Chamber of the Parliament of Canada, continuing: “This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation.”

“While continuing to deepen my own understanding, it is my great hope that in each of your communities, and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation, in both word and deed,” he added.

The King’s speech, written by the Liberal minority government of Prime Minister Mark Carney, also appeared to take several digs at U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who has talked about Canada becoming his country’s 51st state. “As the anthem reminds us: The True North is indeed strong and free!” the King said, in what is widely interpreted as a reference to the “51st state” discourse.

He also said the “system of open global trade that, while not perfect, has helped to deliver prosperity for Canadians for decades, is changing,” adding, “Canada’s relationships with partners are also changing,” in what was obviously a reference to President Trump’s tariff policies.

The speech also endorsed mass migration, stating that ” a confident Canada, which has welcomed new Canadians, including from some of the most tragic global conflict zones, can seize this opportunity by recognising that all Canadians can give themselves far more than any foreign power on any continent can ever take away.”

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October 14, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture

Just 16 States Will Celebrate Columbus Day Today.

According to state administrative and human resources websites, only 16 states and American Samoa are celebrating Columbus Day as an official public holiday. In various states, the day has been rebranded as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, in deference to the leftist narrative that Christopher Columbus should be regarded as a villain rather than a hero.

California has previously marked Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day through gubernatorial proclamations despite not designating it as an official public holiday. Vermont, Maine, and New Mexico renamed the holiday Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2019 and maintain it as an official holiday.

Some states and territories recognize the day under multiple identities. Nebraska and Rhode Island acknowledge it as both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The U.S. Virgin Islands emphasize Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico Friendship Day on the same date, and Alabama observes it as Columbus Day, American Indian Heritage Day, and Fraternal Day simultaneously.

Distinct regional adaptations are also present. South Dakota has celebrated Native American Day on this day since 1990, and Puerto Rico observes it as Día de la Raza, or ‘Day of the [Hispanic] Race.’

Colorado replaced Columbus Day with a holiday honoring Frances Xavier Cabrini, the Italian-American founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in 2020.

Columbus is the most prominent Italian celebrated in the U.S., chiefly for his discovery of the Americas in 1492—Leif Erikson notwithstanding—and has long been a source of pride for Italian Americans. Statues of Columbus are regularly targeted by far-left activists who believe Europeans’ settlement of the New World was a bad thing, with Italian Americans stepping forward to restore them.

In recent days, the media have begun pushing claims Columbus was actually a Spanish Jew, not an Italian.

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According to state administrative and human resources websites, only 16 states and American Samoa are celebrating Columbus Day as an official public holiday. In various states, the day has been rebranded as Indigenous Peoples' Day, in deference to the leftist narrative that Christopher Columbus should be regarded as a villain rather than a hero. show more
October 1, 2024
News

Bug-Eating Tribe Who Fought AGAINST U.S. Independence Gains 1,000 Acres of ‘Ancestral Land’ in NY.

The Onondaga Nation has taken control of 1,000 acres of what it claims is its ancestral land in upstate New York. This newly transferred land lies to the south of Syracuse, near the Native American tribe’s historic stomping grounds, and includes the headwaters of Onondaga Creek. Honeywell International facilitated the transfer as part of a federal Superfund settlement addressing environmental contamination.

This acquisition is just “the first 1,000 acres of the 2.5 million acres of treaty-guaranteed land taken from us over the centuries,” according to Sid Hill, the chief, or Tadodaho, of the Onondaga Nation. Meanwhile, the Onondaga Nation claims their lost lands were unjustly seized by the state starting in 1788 through actions that violated treaties and federal law.

The Onondaga actually fought against American colonists during the War of Independence, which led to General George Washington’s order to destroy them. The group sustained itself by eating cicadas, whose appearance they deemed as miraculous. The tribe still consumes these bugs today.

There are believed to be around 1,500 Onondaga in America, though they claim they are not U.S. citizens and, therefore, do not participate in censuses.

Despite setbacks in U.S. courts, the Onondaga Nation has taken its case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, associated with the Organization of American States. The claim involves a strip of land approximately 40 miles wide, extending from Canada to Pennsylvania through upstate New York. Consequently, the Onondagas aim for this international venue to spur negotiations that might lead to the return of more land.

The Democratic Party’s 2024 platform begins with a so-called “land acknowledgment,” which “recognize[s] that our country was built on Indigenous homelands.”

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The Onondaga Nation has taken control of 1,000 acres of what it claims is its ancestral land in upstate New York. This newly transferred land lies to the south of Syracuse, near the Native American tribe's historic stomping grounds, and includes the headwaters of Onondaga Creek. Honeywell International facilitated the transfer as part of a federal Superfund settlement addressing environmental contamination. show more
August 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Election 2024

Democrats’ Woke 2024 Platform Opens by Declaring America Is Built on Stolen Land.

The 2024 Democratic Party Platform opens with a “land acknowledgment,” stating that the United States of America was established on territory stolen from the Native American tribes. “We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands,” the document states, adding that the Democratic Nation Committee “pay[s] our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals.”

The platform, which the Democrats will vote to endorse alongside presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Chicago, Illinois, over the coming days, further acknowledges that the Chicago area, specifically, comprises “the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations.”

The Democrats also “acknowledge the many other tribes who consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten.”

The “traditional homelands” of the American Indians changed hands between the native tribes over generations of warfare long before the arrival of the first European settlers. Much of the Great Sioux Nation, which warred with the United States through the 19th century, was established on territory the Sioux had stolen from the Crow tribe, for instance.

The first English colony in North America was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island, modern-day North Carolina, on land where the regional ruler, Powhatan, had exterminated the local tribe. He did so in deference to a prophecy that he would be overthrown by a nation arising from the area and massacred the English colonists after their ships sailed away for the same reason. This set the stage for the Anglo-Powhatan Wars when more Englishmen arrived to establish the Jamestown colony.

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The 2024 Democratic Party Platform opens with a "land acknowledgment," stating that the United States of America was established on territory stolen from the Native American tribes. "We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands," the document states, adding that the Democratic Nation Committee "pay[s] our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals." show more