The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi wants the City of Niles to stop using the “Four Flags” name.
The Pokagon Band sent to a letter to the Niles City Council, upset that the Four Flags moniker doesn’t represent them at all.
WSBT reports the letter states that “Those who invaded and claimed the land for themselves worked to erase the deep and rich cultures and contributions of the Indigenous People who cared for the land for thousands of years and who remain and continue to enrich and contribute to the community.”
No word on whether the council will follow-through with their request.
The letter comes just after the Pokagon Band sent a letter to Dowagiac Schools asking them to remove their mascot and nickname The Chieftans.
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There’s some sand, go pound it.
If you really were to “enrich and contribute to the community” you wouldn’t need to remind everyone that you were there.
Oh please, stop, what a load of drivel. Maybe we should see what flag Tensquatawa and Tecumseh flew over Prophets Town…oh wait, they didn’t have a flag because they didn’t own the land; they just took what they could from their neighbors by thievery and murder…not to mention the slaves they kept. Cared for the land, what a crock.
It is an enduring fiction though; “the noble savage” created by a novelist long after they had all settled on the reservation.