Vancouver Canucks Being Pressured To Change Logo

The Vancouver Canucks are being pressured to change their logo due to cultural appropriation concerns. Recently we've seen the Washington Football team make changes and Cleveland's baseball team, and now the pressure is mounting on the Canucks.

In light of sports teams in Cleveland, Washington, and Edmonton getting rid of racist and appropriated Indigenous team names/logos, it's time to have a discussion about the Vancouver @Canucks's Indigenous appropriated Orca logo. Here's a thread. pic.twitter.com/QCuR6zoBae

— Sean Carleton (@SeanCarleton) December 14, 2020

We brought you the recent story of Canucks' goalie Braden Holtby and his controversial mask, which has making headways and now the logo.

Carleton goes on to mention:

How can you continue to develop meaningful relations with Coast Salish nations when you continue to profit from branding that is appropriating their art style. People will say, but Sean the imagery is a 'a sign of respect.' How respectful is continuing to make piles of money from a business you operate on stolen land all the while branding that business with stolen imagery. That's the logic of colonial capitalism for you. [The Canucks should] work with Indigenous peoples to develop iconography in appropriate ways, giving Indigenous artists a platform and a way to participate and benefit.

We will continue to monitor this story as it develops, so far there's been no comments made by the Vancouver Canucks.

Photo credit:   Bob Frid/Icon Sportswire

Do the Vancouver Canucks need a new logo? An Indigenous historian is calling for the team to retire its orca after it came under fire as an example of cultural appropriation https://t.co/bIpMM8ViCs pic.twitter.com/kjuDlZMWyB

— NEWS 1130 (@NEWS1130) December 15, 2020