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Indian Village at Calgary Stampede will change name to Elbow River Camp

Indian Village at Calgary Stampede will change name to Elbow River Camp | iNFOnews.ca
A visitor slides down a zip line during the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Sunday, July 8, 2018. The Calgary Stampede says its annual display of Indigenous culture that goes back over 100 years will no longer be called Indian Village. On Sunday, the final day of the 2018 Calgary Stampede, officials announced the village of more than two dozen teepees will be called Elbow River Camp. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

CALGARY – The Calgary Stampede says its annual display of Indigenous culture that goes back more than 100 years will no longer be called "Indian Village."

On Sunday, the final day of this year's stampede, officials announced the village of more than two dozen teepees will be renamed Elbow River Camp.

Stampede CEO Warren Connell says in a news release that the change was led by the teepee owners with support from the Stampede, noting the owners made the final decision.

Michael Meguinis, a spokesman for the teepee owners, says in the release that the name "Indian Village" never bothered him.

But he says it's no longer accepted by some people, so it's time for a change.

The Calgary Stampede says the name change is effective immediately, and that a closing ceremony for the camp will take place later Sunday afternoon.

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Shelby Thevenot

Shelby has lived across Canada. She grew up near Winnipeg, Manitoba then obtained her B.F.A in Multidisciplinary Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2014 she moved to Montreal, Quebec to study French and thrived in the Visual Journalism Graduate Diploma program at Concordia University. Now she works at iNFO News where she strives to get the stories that matter to the Okanagan Valley community.

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