Tenelle Star is a 13-year old girl who is a member of the Star Blanket First Nation in Saskatchewan. She goes to school in Balcarres, SK. Last week when she wore a hilarious pink hoodie that asked “Got Land?” on the front, and said “Thank an Indian” on the back, she created a controversy. The CBC reported on the matter on 14 January, and from there things have gone sort of viral. Jeff Menard, the Winnipeg man behind the shirts, says he’s getting flooded with orders. But the fallout around Star’s hoodie is getting ridiculous.
A few days ago, I tweeted my disbelief, in a rather inelegant fashion after reading the comments on the original CBC story:
The response to this…
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Aakdewin 
I’m from saskatchewan and I read about this about a week to a week and a half ago and I was puzzled by people’s reactions to the shirt’s message. Why was everyone up in arms about this? She has a right to free speech and her sweater was in no way offensive. The way the school administration handled this, you would have sworn she was committing some sort of hate crime… But she wasn’t; she was spreading a message to remind people of First Nations peoples’ treaty and land rights. It seems canadian society is not as accepting as it would have us believe…