Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

I am Karen Hunter.

And in this discussion with Jane Elliott, the great, the incomparable Jane

Elliott, we get into the nitty gritty.

Is she against reparations for black people? Or is she

against injustice for all people? I had to come to this and I was banging. We were going at it.

We were going at it. And then the light bulb came on over my head. She's very clear. The woman's

91 years old and a world class educator. I got her point. Maybe you will

too. I hope so. Take a listen. Regarding the first Africans that were here, which we call

indigenous, some call them Native Americans, some call them Indians, right? After World War II,

Congress created the Indian Claims Commission to pay compensation to any federally recognized tribe for land that had been seized by the United States.

The group's mission was complicated, of course, because by the paucity of written records, it was difficult to put a value on the land for his agricultural productivity or religious significance.

And the problems with determining

boundaries and ownership for decades because, you know, things are complicated.

The results, of course, these folk, the indigenous Native Americans, the commission paid out

$1.3 billion, which came to about $1,000 for each native indigenous African in these United States

in the time that the commission, by the time it dissolved in 1978.

Throughout the country, Maine had an Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which paid out

$81.5 million to the Pasoamacquotes and the Penobscotts and gave them

the opportunity to buy up to 300,000 acres of land, California, returned land to descendants

of Native Americans who were dispossessed. Financial payments were given out in the Indian

Claims Commission after, you know, we just talked about that, social service benefits.

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