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Banstead Quin

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Re: Arlecchino
« on: Sunday 02-Aug-2020, 13:10* »
Love the OP on this, very clever and I in no way feel that Exeter are mocking Native Americans. But there are also some who do, mainly white people who have no marches to go on!

I believe from my school education (and not having access to the right documents and not wishing to rely on Google/Wikipedia) the word 'Chief' was first used by the Celtic tribes of Northern Europe in Roman times and was associated with a tribe. When Europeans started settling North America they just transplanted the word to describe the head of the North American native tribes. The Pumunky certainly didn't introduce themselves as a 'tribe' or their Head of as Chief. Those terms just got adopted as an English way of referring to the Native Americans.

Waikato Chiefs use the emblem of an Easter Island looking bloke holding a wooden beating stick. Are Maoris horrified at this? No because it shows  a symbol of power relative to their region. Had Exeter used the emblem of a Celtic warlord, no one would care and it would be more relative to their location, so the use of a Native American is strange but certainly not as a figure of derision.

Now, if Native Americans aren't happy and start marching on Washington and rioting in the streets of America (for which they would probably all be shot) as they are so outraged at what this city in England is doing, then it might be time for a debate but I think that is very unlikely.
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