CBC Story: Super Bowl wager of native mask upsets B.C. First Nation

Avatars, It is a matter of cultural respect, cultural protocol, an understanding of the customs and traditions of the first people of this continent, The many nations, which comprises all that was, is and is to come when ones are the caretakers of Mother Earth. Where there is an understanding of historical conditions, mercantilism, capitalism, and what was lost in the colonial destruction and genocide brought upon the first people by diseased blankets, corrupt business people, governments, and not learning the ways of the people since contact. Instead, kill them, kill their buffalo, turn them into tobacco pooches, lamps, and send the survivors to residential school to christianize and civilize the savage. Savage because they did not listen to them but only judged them. So a people survives and today we share. but as well correct history, so we can all walk the same road. Cultural protocol today involves equal inclusion in sharing cultural ideals, properties, and works of historical art that were appropriated by euro American cultural institutions built out of the historical conditions defined by The Affirmative culture, affirming what is value into day's society, good and bad. To bring in the casinos is a mute case, that is referral to a society which glamorizes gambling, casinos, money, and all that defines success in a capitalist oriented society. As a Super bowel better, I find it in bad taste for the museum curators. If they are anything worth their value as acquistioners of art, and historical works, they should have done their homework. Cultural protocol. All it takes to start a dialogue based on honesty, humility and respect, then some good may come out of what started out as a bad idea based on pride, the ego, and excessive sporting excitability. thank you for reading. God bless.