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http://www.spokane.net/news-story.asp?date=021700&ID=s744903&cat=section.tribal_news

Petroglyphs registered as trademarks by tribe
Fri, 18 Feb 2000
Compiled from our staff and wire services -

Ten petroglyphs have been registered as trademarks by a
Vancouver Island Indian band, making them off-limits for use
on sweatshirts and jewelry and other commercial items.

Reproductions of the ancient figures pounded into rock faces,
have become hot selling items with tourists, but leaders of the
Snuneymuxw First Nation believe the images are sacred.

"They are not supposed to be copied for any purposes," said
Murray Browne of the Snuneymuxw treaty office. "Any copies of
them are sacrilegious."

The petroglyphs have been registered with the Canadian
Intellectual Properties Office, and artisans and merchants in
Nanaimo and on Gabriola Island have been asked to stop using
them under penalty of court action.

The images are now "considered official marks of the Snuneymuxw
First Nation, in the same way the Canadian flag is considered an
official symbol of Canada," said Lisa Power, assistant director of
the Canadian government's trademarks branch.
 

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