Duluth store stops selling “My Indian name is Crawling Drunk” shirts
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- Duluth store stops selling “My Indian name is Crawling Drunk” shirts
- Language Signs to Help Improve Racial Relations In Northern Minnesota
- Classroom bullies: teachers abusing students
- Maine Indians want athletes honored
Duluth store stops selling “My Indian name is Crawling Drunk” shirts
Minneapolis City Pages
He says he didn’t realize the shirts would be offensive to American Indians. or anyone for that matter. But he didn’t dump the shirts altogether… or anyone for that matter. But he didn’t dump the shirts altogether. He put the shirts farther back in the store and sold them for a deeply discounted price. When the Duluth Human Rights fficer visited the store he told him he would sell them all to him at cost to get them off the shelf.
Language Signs to Help Improve Racial Relations In Northern Minnesota
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northlandsnewscenter. Yet many people who live here admit they don’t know much about their neighbors. Now there’s a new initiative that hopes to change that. northlandsnewscenter.
Classroom bullies: teachers abusing students
Examiner.com
If children were trained "early on" to identify abusive behaviors and how to address them; the school experience and life in general just might be safer and happier. Spanking in the classroom was not even the half of the abuses inflicted by teachers in past history. To assimilate the American Indian children into European culture Captain Richard H. Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian School at an abandoned military post in the state of Pennsylvania. Thus the Native American Boarding school atrocities began. These Native American children were told their culture was wrong. They were separated from families and friends.
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Maine Indians want athletes honored
The Associated Press
Sockalexis played professional baseball for the Cleveland Spiders from 1897-1899 and batted. 338 in 66 games in his first season. A resolution passed June 12 by the Maine Legislature calls Sockalexis the “first known American Indian to play major league baseball” and the inspiration for the team name Indians which was officially adopted in 1915. The resolution also criticizes Sports Illustrated for not including Louis or his cousin Andrew who competed in the lympic marathon in 1912 on its list of Maine’s 50 greatest athletes and asks that the magazine “correct the oversight. “”They were always talked about in my upbringing on the reservation” said Francis adding “they truly were heroes in this community. “But Francis and Mitchell said the contributions of the two athletes have been largely overlooked by baseball and the media. “To me their accomplishments went far beyond their athletic prowess” said Francis.
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