Posted on 01/17/2014 4:57:00 PM PST by rickmichaels
The Manitoba man who started selling clothing that says "Got land? Thank an Indian" has had interest from potential customers all around the world after a Grade 8 student wearing one of his sweaters made headlines this week.
Tenelle Starr, 13, wore a pink hoodie bearing the slogan to her Saskatchewan school, but was told to take it off because it could offend someone. After a meeting between her parents and school officials, the matter was cleared up and she was permitted to wear the sweater again.
But the story made headlines, and now Jeff Menard says he's getting requests from around the globe.
On his Facebook page, people from other provinces, as well as from far away as New Zealand, are eager to get their hands on the shirts, hoodies and even baby bibs.
"It's going like crazy," Menard said Friday. He has been selling the shirts through his Facebook page, but said he's working to get a website.
He said he heard the phrase while on a visit to the U.S. In 2012, he created the shirt.
"I knew this would make our people proud to wear something like this," the member of the Pine Creek First Nations said. "It put a smile on my face."
He said he sold more than 1,000 shirts before this week, but now he has more requests than he's been able to keep track of, and the calls keep coming in.
"I had people calling me from Baltimore," he said. "Who knows what the final numbers are going to be."
So send me a check.
Most tribes protected the lands they had lived on for thousands of years...There wasn’t much land grabbing until the Europeans came....
Apparently someone has never heard of “Buffalo Jump” in Canada. Its where the natives drove buffalo over a cliff by the thousands and left most to rot after taking what they could.
Lewis and Clark restocked their supplies of meat with buffalo left to rot by the natives.
When we were arguing over wolf hunting here in Michigan a few years ago a tribal authority up north spoke in favor of wolf hunting. He slapped the liberals for pushing a fantasy that the natives didn’t kill wolves. He pointed out that the wolves were a threat and they were competition for food so they did kill wolves to keep them at bay.
The earth worshiping hippie fantasy of the indians is a leftist creation.
My family bought their land from the indians fair and square back in the 1620s.
Just a few thousand acres on southern Manhattan Island
You mean the Creek and Cherokee didn't fight each other over land? Odd I read different.
Thanks for the advice, Mr. Menard. Your advice is much appreciated however, I’ll just thank God, as should you and whichever Indian you feel that I should thank.
Got land Thank God
Got work?
Thank a white man.
Read these:
Valley So Wild, Carson Brewer
Trail of Tears, John Ehle
Cherokee Heritage Trails, Barbara Duncan and Brett Riggs
May you be enlightened.....
In addition, I think that Mr. Menard should thank ME (and millions of other Canadian taxpayers), as our tax dollars provide free education, welfare, housing and venture capital to ‘First Nations businesses(like that required to start and expand a t-shirt business).
Mr. Menard, you are welcome!
They did own slaves themselves and did help whites track down runaway slaves as well.
You know, I wonder how well whites would do if they had the current advantages Indians have right now.
The Cherokee and Creek tribes battled during the War of 1812 at Horseshoe Bend where the Cherokee fought alongside Americans and saved Andrew Jackson’s butt....
One of my distant ancestors was captured by natives in frontier NH twice as a child. The first time he was “rescued” when another tribe attacked to capture slaves (including him) and they sold the boy back to his parents.
A few years later the same tribe that had “rescued” him captured him again as a slave. He escaped a few years later at 15 with nearly a dozen of the tribe. They intermarried with the local whites and lived as whites do.
*winner*
See my tagline.
It references a case where British troops left wounded American militia in the “care” of British allied indians who proceeded to slaughter them in their beds.
And the oh-so-enlightened and mystical Anasazi ate each other.
Thank Kennewick Man.
To think, the Indians wondered then why Americans didn’t want them around.
For example, the Cherokee. They were not originally a SE tribe, Carolinas, Tenn. They were from the Great Lakes region and migrated over time.
The human condition is expansion and movement. For survival or the something else within us all. We all moved.
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