Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York criticized the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday over its land acknowledgement at its Minneapolis meeting.
“You don’t have to just stay on the land acknowledgement to see how often the Democratic Party has, you know, suggested that America is a bad country,” York said on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
“They’ve stressed the flaws and inequalities of American life and just kind of ignored the marvelous light of liberty the United States is to the whole world,” York added.
Lindy Sowmick, treasurer of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was among the speakers at the summer meeting. Sowmick is of the Saginaw Ojibwe Nation and addressed the crowd in an indigenous language before switching to English.
“The DNC acknowledges and honors the Dakota Oyate, the Dakota people, who are the original stewards of the lands and waters of Minneapolis. The Dakota cared for the lands, lakes, and the Wakpa Tanka, the ‘Great River,’ the Mississippi River, for thousands of years before colonization,” Sowmick said.
“This land was not claimed or traded — it’s a part of a history of broken treaties and promises. And, in many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress Indigenous peoples’ cultural and spiritual history,” she continued.
York noted that the Democratic Party’s emphasis on honoring Native Americans comes at a time when the party is facing “low voter approval, voters moving to the Republican Party, and not having any money.”
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As of the end of June, the Democratic National Committee reported about $15 million in cash on hand, roughly $60 million less than the Republican National Committee reported. Meanwhile, a July Wall Street Journal poll found that voters’ approval of the Democratic Party is the lowest it has been in 35 years.
A land acknowledgement is also included in the 2024 Democratic Party’s platform.