Oh, the horrors!
Posted on 10/04/2017 9:25:47 AM PDT by 11th_VA
An Ontario elementary school removed a decades-old totem pole from outside its front entrance on Friday, after discovering that it was built without Indigenous input.
Grade 6 students at Summitview Public School in Stouffville, Ont., about 50 kilometres north of Toronto, carved the totem pole in 1973. Former teacher Bernadine Mumford, who started the project, told the Stouffville Sun-Tribune it was a part of Canadian history exercise that focused on the “great harm” done to Indigenous peoples.
“It bothered me that there was an implication it was racist,” she told the paper.
After “community-based concerns” emerged about the structure, the York Region District School Board decided it amounted to cultural appropriation. “While initially constructed with positive intentions,” the board said in a letter to parents last week, “our understanding of how cultural appropriation affects our learning environments has developed significantly.”
“The totem pole was created without consultation or involvement of members of Indigenous Nations, including members of the Indigenous Nations of the West Coast for which the totem pole is unique.”
In deciding what to do, the board consulted with representatives from the Chippewas of Georgina Island, a local First Nation, who agreed the totem pole had to come down. Band councillor Lauri Hoeg said she told board officials that since the structure was getting old and rickety, and had evidently offended a parent, it was best to just get rid of it.
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From what I’ve studied over the years Canadian indians endured far, far less oppression and tragedy than their American cousins.
Chippewas (Ojibwe) didn’t make totem poles, so there is no reason to consult them.
Totem poles are from the Pacific coast.
I guess forty years ago a totem pole was more interesting than an Algonquian bark house.
It was multiculturally inspired, if not Indian-designed. Give us a break!
Does that mean the Chinese restaurants hiring Mexican cooks are violating liberal moral principles?
Since I am indigenous - I was born here - I am going to put up a totem pole in my back yard and I won’t be consulting with a bunch of idiot Chippewas who never put up totem poles anyway.
Oh, the horrors!
Michelle Obama has culturally appropriated several argyle-patterned sweaters from Scottish people, specifically the Campbell clan of Argyll, Scotland. I feel triggered.
Would it be allowed in the United States? Would we require any totem pole project in the United States be administered by a real native American, while the state continues to appropriate Christians' ability to make their annual cultural demonstrations each December?
-PJ
Could be her heritage ... Thomas Sowell, in his book Black Rednecks, figures the Africans brought in the slave days left their culture behind, and instead emulated Scottish Highlander neighbors when transplanted to the American South. He goes on to say that the brash ghetto attitude of modern day Blacks derives from the same Scottish Highlanders. The Scots have moved away from that culture, but many Blacks are still stuck with it to this day. That’s cultural appropriation that doesn’t do anyone any good.
There really is something called white guilt. Liberals are eaten up with it, so far it hasn’t bothered me at all.
I demand that all books in print be burned unless it was printed in Germany by genuine Germans on there printing press.
What are Indigenous Nations? Is it like Latinos? : )
Well, O’Bama looks Irish. If her name was McBama she could be Scots or Scots-Irish.
#31 I will believe this when I see Jay Z wearing a kilt!
Loved Charley Pride’s Music, did you know he is part owner of the Texas Rangers!
Has Cherokee princess Elizabeth Warren been consulted?
I’ve always said it’s a good idea to get indigenous input before untaking any project.
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