Indigenous-themed logo highlights the Al’s support for Truth and Reconciliation

The Canadian Football League will be recognizing the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. According to the CFL website: “The league consulted with local Indigenous communities to plan Orange Shirt Day initiatives and game day commemorations to help Canadians better understand the nation’s tragic past, and to help plot a course forward based on awareness, education and action.” For a second straight year the Montreal Alouettes will be hosting a Flag Football Youth clinic in Kahnawake today. It will be held at 5 pm (today, Monday) at the Sports Complex field.  It involves: skills and drills. Flag football games and Autographs and photos. Mark Weightman is the President and CEO of the Montreal Alouettes. This is the second year of the clinic:

“What I really love about this collaboration is once again, this is all about awareness and learning. Learning about a culture that we know far too little about.  Everything in the design of the logo has a representation: 3 feathers represents the traditional headdress of the Mohawk community and they have 3 feathers in theirs. The dreamcatcher overarching scene represents the fact that it’s essential to represent all Indigenous peoples of the Province of Quebec.”

The Als will change Montreal to Tio’tiá:ke and have an Indigenous designed logo by Finnley Montour saying the logo needed to represent everyone:

“My first thought was that it needs to representative of all Indigenous people in Quebec and not just the Kanien’kehá:ka and for me that was something that I took very seriously. I wanted to make sure that I was going to do a good job representing everyone. That’s why I came up with the ‘overarching idea’ of turning the logo into a dreamcatcher, that kind of overarching symbol for Indigenous culture.”

They will also wear Orange Jerseys in the warm up ahead of their game Saturday in Toronto.

Logo Courtesy: CFL.ca

Logo Courtesy: CFL.ca