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Veteran strategist James Carville blasted the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Thursday for opening its Minneapolis meeting with a " land acknowledgment " that he said accused the United States of systemic suppression — calling it the kind of gesture that costs Democrats elections.

Lindy Sowmick, treasurer of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a self-described "Indigenous queer woman," opened the acknowledgment by honoring the Dakota Oyate as the original stewards of Minneapolis land for thousands of years before colonization. She pointed to a legacy of broken treaties and promises, adding, "In many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress Indigenous peoples' cultural and spiritual history."

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