Olympic mascots 2010 : how many Aboriginal symbols and people are used in these Games ??
source: http://electricbrave.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/olympic-mascots-2010-how-many-aboriginal-symbo...
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As Adolph Hitler found out when he staged the 1936 Berlin Olympics and introduced the torch relay to the modern Games, it is easy to persuade people that your government is on their side through the clever use of propaganda. No matter how many Aboriginal symbols and people are used in these Games, it is important to remember that only Canada and the United States have not signed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Organizers of these Games constantly state that Aboriginal participation is unprecedented, but even Tewanee Joseph, CEO of Four Host First Nations — the organization that is the bridge between organizers and the community — admits he can’t name one Aboriginal athlete on our Olympic teams — winter or summer. If there are 200 athletes on the team to these Games, in terms of population ratios, six or seven should be Aboriginal.
Other issues to think about:
VANOC -the Vancouver Olympic Committee — asked the City of Vancouver for an injunction against the planned Feb. 14 women’s march on East Hastings Street. Every year people march on Valentine’s Day to remember the missing and murdered women of the city’s eastside, and to bring attention to ongoing issues of violence against Aboriginal women. VANOC said the march would cause traffic jams. Vancouver disallowed the injunction and the march will proceed.
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ThoughtNu
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North America has never acted with an even hand toward any indigenous population. Even in identifying those tribes( Dawes Rolls were pre Hawaii, Alaska... large indigenous populations...
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ThoughtNu
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electricbrave
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ThoughtNu:
It is a notice that came through the moccasin grapevine, and a thought to think about how as a native American we have to be looking at all mascots and ideas of how we are seen.
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electricbrave
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ThoughtNu
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ThoughtNu:
When I see a dancing soldier, president or pope celebrating conflict ... as a mascot... maybe a non native might understand. It took that very phrase at northwestern university to have 'chief illiniwek' reviewed and retired.
Natives have had sacred symbols used without permission to rally the public for far too long.
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ThoughtNu
