{"id":32163,"date":"2021-01-13T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=32163"},"modified":"2021-01-13T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T20:32:52","slug":"centre-wellington-lacrosse-gears-up-to-change-mohawks-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/centre-wellington-lacrosse-gears-up-to-change-mohawks-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre Wellington lacrosse gears up to change ‘Mohawks’ brand"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Centre Wellington Minor Lacrosse Association (CWMLA)<\/a> has begun the process of changing their team name and logo. The Mohawks name was selected by a player vote back in 2010 when the Fergus and Elora minor lacrosse associations merged.<\/p>\n

Nathan Joyes, CWMLA president, said talks began back in November 2019 about changing the team name and logo.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the realization that people are going to constantly be asking us, outside of the lacrosse community, to change the name without understanding the roots and the ties between lacrosse and the Native American community,\u201d Joyes said.<\/p>\n

According to World Lacrosse<\/a>, the sport was started by the Native American Indians and was originally known as \"stickball.\"<\/p>\n

Joyes said the Mohawks name and logo was always intended to honour the Indigenous people who invented the game of lacrosse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have people that don\u2019t know the history, and they keep poking in and so, their poking in and they\u2019re not listening, the next person will come in and they haven\u2019t heard the story about the ties to the community that we\u2019ve had,\u201d Joyes expressed. \u201cAnd so, we\u2019ve gone down for a number of years down the education route to try to bring people into the loop, and understand the history of the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that it\u2019s gotten to the point where the association is spending too much time trying to educate people, and it\u2019s taking away from the management of the minor sports organization.<\/p>\n

Though the Mohawk team name and logo won\u2019t change until spring 2021, Joyes said that as long as he\u2019s president of the CWMLA,<\/a> he will continue to educate people on the history of the sport, and the ties it has to Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s some really, really strong ties to it in comparison to other sports such as, football or baseball, where they\u2019ve just kind of picked up the name and they were using it as marketing, and claiming a tribute towards the Native [American] community,\u201d Joyes said.<\/p>\n

The CWMLA<\/a> are asking for public input on their new name and logo change starting in early February through the association\u2019s website<\/a> and their social media channels.<\/p>\n

Joyes said although public input hasn\u2019t started yet, there is already strong public opinion about what the name should be.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people want to keep the Mohawks as the name, some people want to call ourselves the hawks, and the thistles has come up a few times as well,\u201d Joyes said.<\/p>\n

He added that the CWMLA<\/a> is looking at government funding and other alternatives to offset the costs for the complete rebranding of the team.<\/p>\n

Nathan Joyes, CWMLA president:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Edited-Clip-NJ.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Centre Wellington Minor Lacrosse Association (CWMLA) has begun the process of changing their team name and logo. The Mohawks name was selected by a player vote back in 2010 when the Fergus and Elora minor lacrosse associations merged. Nathan Joyes, CWMLA president, said talks began back in November 2019 about changing the team name…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":32186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221,204],"tags":[4945,438,2315,2142,710,504,4946,4947,4594],"radio":[1376],"origine":[267,1369,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32163"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=32163"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=32163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}