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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 11:53 AM
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Vancouver '10 Olympics logo offends some
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The newly unveiled logo for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics has upset some Canadian aboriginal people.

The multicolored "inukshuk" -- based on traditional Inuit stone figures used to point traveling Inuit to safety and symbolize friendship -- is composed of blocks in the colors of the Olympic rings. It's called "Ilanaaq" (pronounced ih-lah-nawk), the Inuit word for "friend."

It was denounced by Edward John, the grand chief of Canada's First Nations Summit.

He said the logo, unveiled Saturday in Vancouver, didn't reflect the indigenous people of Canada's western coast. The Inuit are natives of Canada's northern and Arctic Circle territories.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=2048505
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 12:08 PM
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1. so the problem is that it honored the WRONG people?
huh.
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