Posted on 10/12/2017 12:41:30 AM PDT by Jonty30
Canada’s largest school board says it is phasing out the word “chief” from senior staff’s job titles out of respect for Indigenous peoples.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.calgarysun.com ...
I wonder how many Canadian bureaucrats have hair cut or styled to hide lobotomy scars.
Going to have to rename their province as well.
TORONTO is a name taken from the MOHAWK indians.
“Taronto” later referred to “The Narrows”, a channel of water through which Lake Simcoe discharges into Lake Couchiching. This narrows was called tkaronto by the Mohawk, meaning “where there are trees standing in the water”, and was recorded as early as 1615 by Samuel de Champlain.
Source: Wikipedia
From http://www.etymonline.com/word/chief
c. 1300, “head, leader, captain; the principal or most important part of anything;” from Old French chief “leader, ruler, head” of something, “capital city” (10c., Modern French chef), from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput “head,” also “leader, chief person; summit; capital city” (from PIE root *kaput- “head”). Meaning “head of a clan” is from 1570s; later extended to American Indian tribes. Commander-in-chief attested from 1660s.
The word was not taken from their culture. They can call the heads of their tribes whatever is from their tradition and language. Chief or chieftain is simply a general word for leader.
Yep. It’s from the French, but some morons are pretending to be offended. Can I still use the Greek word “moron”, or should I say “person of alternate mental ability”?
purging a French origin word my not go over well among the Quebecois.
Really; it wasn’t like they had a “school board sachem”...
I think Ottawa has to go too. PC is running amok.
... eye roll ... (audible).
Toronto Ontario Canada....all native in origin. I dare say the whole lot should be renamed Idiotville in Moronia.
The irony is melted and dripping off of this one.
“Chief”, is not an indian word. Native Americans didn’t know the word “chief” before they learned English.
It’s a English word used to denote the “top guy”, or “head of a group”.
People just scour the internet to find SOMETHING to be offended by.
Sheeeeeeesh.
I’m sorry. I take offense to your use of the word “people”. It sounds close to the word “peep-hole” which of course could be construed as an aid to being a voyeur which as we all know is an infraction on my civil rights...lol!
Rut Roh.look out PC USN and all you CPO’s.
Your days a re numbered
instead of seeing it as possibly injuring native sensibilities, why not see it as honoring the person with that title?
Dont; they see they are the ones attaching negativity to the title/word?
some people can only see three one lens and it’s warped.
True.
Middle English, from Anglo-French chief, chef “head”, chief, from Latin caput “head”...
Isn’t the affect the opposite? They are taking respected Indian/native american words, and completely sending them down the memory hole.
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