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."
you are all wrong. Thank me.
My people descended out of Africa into the Middle East then throughout Europe and Asia, then over a land bridge into North America.
You all owe me rent.
We gave the alcohol and small pox for it. Fair trade. No Indian givers. Am I allowed to say that?
Yes, very true. Another ancestor of mine, Joseph Kellogg was captured by Mohawks and the French in the Deerfield raid of, I think 1703, and was held captive for almost a decade. He learned the language and customs and later became a scout while his two sisters married into the tribe. I live on Indian land, Paiute land in the West, and treat the land with great respect.
I’ve done some family research. My ancestors paid the owners for the land.
I thank God for the land. Previous owners were just caretakers, as are we.
What an interesting history. Was his entire family captured?
Huh? My initial post was not in response to anything you'd said during this thread. I had replied to the person who posted the article.
I never suggested you shouldn't be proud of your heritage.
Paiute were good horsemen, I understand.....
Yes, Joseph Kellogg, his father and sisters were all captured. Their mother was killed during the raid and the father died during the trip up to Canada. Another one of my ancestors, who married Dan’l Boone’s wife’s sister, was driven out of the Forks of the Yadkin in North Carolina by the Cherokee in 1763.
Yes, they were and still are.
My response was to your question as to why would a “Native American” be proud to wear that shirt...
I thought you were questioning me about the shirt....
IMO, the shirt is saying that people should thank an Indian for being forcibly removed from his ancestoral lands to make room for the others...Nothing really to be proud of...
That area around the Yadkin was shared jointly by the Cherokee and the Tuscarora after they mended their ways....
Interesting, I did not know that.
The Tuscarora was a small nation and after trying to go against the huge Cherokee nation several times, they realized they could gain what they wanted by negotiations...
It was Attakullakulla, I believe, with who the Tuscarora trusted and made their decision for a truce.
I think I will thank God who created the heavens and the earth instead. People come and go. Strong overtake the weak all the time.
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Well said!
With my people, it is Unetlanvhi we thank..He is the Great Spirit who created Earth and all things. (God)
The malevolent Spirit is Uyaga, who was cast from above and creates problems across the Earth....
Thank the British Empire.
Ever read Allan W. Eckert? That will destroy any idea that either the whites or the Indians were all good or all evil. There were some very noble people and some very nasty people in both camps.
You will never convince some people of that.
I have had some tell me, apparently serious, that the Indians didn't really "farm" they just planted fields and left them while they went off to hunt during the summer. They then came back in the fall to harvest what was left.
I have to wonder if this person ever had a garden.
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