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Originally posted by aurora_borealis
[hijack/] Digging deeper into this is the misplaced stereotypes. Totem poles are not likely representative of your area (I don't think you live out this way Munchkin, but please correct me if I am wrong). They are specific to the Northwest Coastal areas. Woodworking like that stretches from the north west coast of the US, all the way up into Alaska including Canada. Tomahawk and squaw are both Algonquin words, which was spoken in the Eastern part of North America, so it is rather incorrect when used elsewhere. Although many groups were moved west, so the language did spread. I mean hell, for the statement that using these things is "honoring", at least get the tribe/nation/language/culture correct. [/end hijack]
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Yes, there were some of us who thought that those were wrong too. But these were rednecks who happened to have a lot of money, so no one was really going to challenge them. The teacher who did was basically tarred and feathered.
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