Credit: ABC7 ChicagoBarack Obama’s presidential library is sparking more controversy as the Obama Foundation pushes the progressive idea that America was built on land stolen from the American Indians. The $850 million eyesore that resembles a trash can officially opened on Juneteenth this past Friday.During the opening ceremony, Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett also delivered a land acknowledgment. “We’d also like to take a moment to acknowledge the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered here today, Jarrett said. “We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Nations.”WATCH:!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u2vbt6g"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");Rumble("play", {"video":"v79fbnm","div":"rumble_v79fbnm"});The library also includes a permanent “Acknowledging Indigenous Peoples’ Land and Territory” display.The placard visitors are forced to confront, also found on the Obama Center’s website, reads:The Obama Foundation acknowledges the sovereign Indigenous peoples who have, since time immemorial, inhabited and stewarded the lands many of us call home. Through extraordinary resilience, Indigenous people have worked to combat and rightfully reverse the forces of settler colonialism. This work toward justice demands the meaningful support of non-Indigenous allies.We honor the ancestors present with us and celebrate Chicago’s thriving and diverse urban Native community. This area’s lands and waterways are the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe—the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Many Nations, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten, also recognize this area as part of their traditional homelands.The Obama Foundation is committed to empowering and uplifting Indigenous voices and perspectives as together we strive to realize a vibrant democratic culture.“We know the history that we share. It’s a history marked by violence and disease and deprivation. Treaties were violated. Promises were broken. You were told your lands, your religion, your cultures, your languages were not yours to keep. And that’s a history that we’ve got to acknowledge if we are to move forward,” Barack Obama writes in a divisive statement, attacking America.However, the ironic twist is that the history of the Obama Center is one of stealing land from Native Americans, the natural-born citizens of Chicago.Roughly 20 acres of valuable public land were handed over to Obama for $10.“This land actually was recaptured from the Great Chicago Fire. They took a bunch of rubble and actually created this land,” Illinois GOP Chair Bob Grogan told Fox. “So, it has nothing to do with the Native Americans, but it has everything to do with stealing it from the taxpayers of the city of Chicago.”Fox News reports:But the land acknowledgment also underlines a glaring irony, one that was largely absent from Thursday’s opening ceremony, according to some critics. The Obama Presidential Center, operated by the private Obama Foundation, sits on public land transferred to the foundation by the city of Chicago for just $10 under a controversial agreement.“People here in future years are going to hear about how this land was stolen from the Native Americans,” Illinois GOP Chair Bob Grogan told Fox News Digital outside the center last week. “But, underneath, you should all be reading into this, that it was actually stolen from the citizens of Illinois, not from the Native Americans.”The criticism stems from a yearslong legal and political battle over the transfer of 19.3 acres of Jackson Park public land to the Obama Foundation under a 99-year agreement requiring the one-time $10 payment.Critics also argue that what was originally presented as a presidential library evolved into a campus that serves as the home of the Obama Foundation.A map graphic shows the footprint of the Obama Presidential Center inside Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side along Lake Michigan. (Fox News Digital) The post After Stealing Chicago Land to Build Massive Garbage Can Library, Obama Center Forces Forces Acknowledgement of “Indigenous Peoples’ Land and Territory” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.