Posted on 10/12/2021 9:09:07 PM PDT by MplsSteve
Minnetonka Moccasin Co., a local footwear company, is acknowledging and apologizing for Native American culture appropriation over the last 75-plus years.
The company dropped the "moccasin" from its logo in 2008, and has removed the word from the majority of its corporate messaging and will now refer to only "Minnetonka" going forward.
"We (Minnetonka) deeply and meaningfully apologize for having benefited from selling Native-inspired designs without directly honoring Native culture or communities," the statement reads on the company's website. It also states, "we are dedicated to honoring our commitment to Native American communities with our actions going forward."
The business states that when it first opened in 1946, Minnetonka was one of many companies that sold handcrafted moccasins and Native-inspired accessories to roadside gift shops. The company also says for many years, they have privately supported Native causes in the state, but add "giving back is not enough."
(Excerpt) Read more at kstp.com ...
Still a lot better than “Minnetonka Cottonmouths”...
-PJ
When I lived in Minnesota in the mid-70’s, there used to be a bar on the lake that held an annual wet tshirt contest each summer. Does that quaint local custom still exist, or has that gone into apology mode?
The company dropped the "moccasin" from its logo in 2008, and has removed the word from the majority of its corporate messaging and will now refer to only "Minnetonka" going forward.
From Wikipedia:
The name "Minnetonka" comes from the Dakota Sioux mni tanka, meaning "great water".
Long story short: THE COMPANY IS STILL APPROPRIATING INDIAN CULTURE!
In other words: The "Woke" Brigade won't be happy until the company renames itself "Generic Footwear Company."
Regards,
Well, according to the, “You have to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka,” scene from, “Purple Rain.....”
Talk about ugly twofaced dog pony solders, Let this sink in....THEIR SHOES ARE MADE IN CHINA..
It’s pretentious and it flattens out the popular culture. Removes individual and imaginative ways to package your product. What, should all products be sold in colorless, image free white boxes with the same black generic fonts?
Because that’s the way it was done in the old Soviet Union?
Intelligent people who are free of leftist mental issues understand that adopting Native American art forms is, in fact, giving tribute and recognition to the Native Americans.
I suggest the CEO commit suicide in public in penance. And only purebred Mexicans eat at taco joints. And all those things whites invented? Gonna suck if you ain’t white, but it is only fair.
I’m flabbergasted. I thought Minnetonka was a Cherokee owned business. Lord knows every “giftshop” in Cherokee, North Carolina sold them years ago. Their moccasins were the only shoe my daughter would wear for years because they didn’t hurt her feet.
SMH
The indians appropriated casinos!
I want them to comp me every time I go in... : )
Wow! So if have to stop using indian things, the First Natives will have to stop using automobiles, flashlights, guns, and fish hooks!
If I were them I would give whites a permission slip to appropriate or they are going to be walking everywhere!
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