Misrepresentation of Canadian First Nations People

One can argue that the 2010 Olympics committee has edited and re-packaged native refinement which has in any case been ripped out of its traditional contexts. The Committee is highlighting Arctic endemical imagery yet Vancouver, the centre of the Games, is a temperate city. Arctic endemic passels did not live there or on the nearby whistling marmot and Cypress mountains, where some Olympic events will be held. Other BC prototypal Nations tribes who did live in that area of British Columbia also were not represented in the marketing iconography.One First Nations piece of music who was asked to be a participant in the 2010 opening ceremonies, was told when he came to the naming room in his own traditional regalia, to put them aside and preferably done some sort of costume, like you see the king and the faggot entertain in Europe those big long robes that drag on the floor. It was not remotely authentic at the least. This misrepresentation of the First Nations people does nt show the world who they really are as First Nations people.When I watched the Olympics opening ceremonies on February 12th 2010, after the original bare I felt proud of my coun turn in for finally including and celebrating Native peoples in the production. I was also happy that it is the first time that First Nations have been recognized by the International Olympic Committee as semiofficial host partners in any games.Take a minute and try to understand the Indigenous plight. This is not something that is so far in the historical it has no effect today. It has a very strong effect. Colonization and residential schools has influenced my friends fathers suicide and has in turn affected her faultless life. The pain is still present, it is still here. I would ask that you just listen, and ponder, and mulct the real Native history that has been hidden from all of us.