Head shop name offends some First Nations (fwd link)

[Heather Souter]

Taapwee!  For sure!  NBPN! (LOL in Michif!)

Heather



On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Richard Zane Smith <rzs at wildblue.net>wrote:

> ahh! don't we understand? we're so slow!...the owners of the store where
> "honoring" Anishanaabe!
>
> I wonder what that sign would look like shot full of arrows?
> it could be a way "to honor"  the store owners
>
> Richard Zane Smith
> Wyandotte Oklahoma
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> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
> cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
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>> Head shop name offends some First Nations
>>
>> CBC News Posted: Jul 26, 2011 10:22 AM CT
>> Canada
>>
>> A head shop in Winnipeg's West End is offending some people with its
>> aboriginal name, Miigwetch.
>>
>> In the Anishnaabe language, Miigwetch is the word for thank you.
>>
>> The shop sells drug paraphernalia, such as glass pipes, and some
>> aboriginal people are far from thankful to be associated with those
>> items.
>>
>> "Our language is sacred to us. I don't want our language to be a part
>> of any drug culture," said Robert Sinclair, who was with his
>> 11-year-old daughter when she spotted the shop's sign on Notre Dame
>> Avenue.
>>
>> Access full article below:
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>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/07/26/mb-head-shop-miigwetch-winnipeg.html
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> where we find our stories,our lives,our ancestors;and it should be where we
> find our future too"   Simon Anaviapik ... Inuit*
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