{"id":898,"date":"2014-01-26T17:39:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=898"},"modified":"2014-01-26T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:39:44","slug":"got-land-hoodie-continues-to-spark-controversy-idlenomore-edstudies-bced-ubced-bcpoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2014\/01\/26\/got-land-hoodie-continues-to-spark-controversy-idlenomore-edstudies-bced-ubced-bcpoli\/","title":{"rendered":"“Got Land?” hoody continues to spark controversy #idlenomore #edstudies #bced #ubced #bcpoli"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Nations sweater sparks nationwide controversy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association, January 25, 2014– Thirteen-year-old student, Tenelle Starr, inadvertently became the centre of a nationwide controversy over just five words on her sweater: \u201cGot Land? Thank an Indian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starr, who lives on the\u00a0Star Blanket First Nation reserve and\u00a0attends Grade 8 in Balcarres, a small town approximately 100 kilometers from Regina, says she wore her sweater to promote her heritage and and treaty rights. (Read more<\/a>) Starr says that she initially wore the sweater after Christmas break without incident, and was shocked when school officials later forbade her from wearing her sweater to school. She continued to wear it, however, and was instructed each time to either remove it or turn it inside out. According to school officials, other students and their parents were offended by the sweater, which they called \u201ccheeky,\u201d \u201crude,\u201d and even \u201cracist.\u201d (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

After meetings between the school, Starr, her mother, and the Star Blanket First Nation, school officials determined that the sweater was not inappropriate and that Starr would be able to wear it to school, according to the\u00a0CBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Creator of the sweater, Jeff Menard, says that he\u2019s been\u00a0flooded with orders<\/a>\u00a0for his \u201cGot Land?\u201d t-shirts and sweaters following nationwide coverage of the controversy.<\/p>\n

Read More: CCLA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Nations sweater sparks nationwide controversy Canadian Civil Liberties Association, January 25, 2014– Thirteen-year-old student, Tenelle Starr, inadvertently became the centre of a nationwide controversy over just five words on her sweater: \u201cGot Land? Thank an Indian.\u201d Starr, who lives … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406501,4182,4772,879,2258,2259,555,635,524083,2262,2266,5038,737179,2273,4069],"tags":[617412,1063372,1063373,1063364,1063374,1063379,1063389],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc-education","category-civil-liberties","category-critical-education","category-environment","category-equity","category-ethics","category-free-speech","category-government","category-idle-no-more","category-k-12-issues","category-protests","category-student-movement","category-student-speech","category-students","category-teachers","tag-bc-education-2","tag-equity","tag-ethics","tag-free-speech","tag-k-12-issues","tag-students","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}