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[–]julesburm1891 27 insightful - 8 fun27 insightful - 7 fun28 insightful - 8 fun -  (1 child)

I can say with confidence I would be relieved to not receive this invitation.

On the real, are they really just going to spell tribe names with random Greek letters and numbers and pretend that’s totally normal?

[–]bopomofodojo 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

On the real, are they really just going to spell tribe names with random Greek letters and numbers and pretend that’s totally normal?

To be completely fair - these are the original language transcriptions of their names using a phonetic spelling system (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language), as opposed to the Anglicized versions afterwards and that we are more familiar with. There's a lot of stupidity about the land acknowledgement thing, but this isn't one of them. A comparison would be calling Russia "Россия" instead of "Russia".