Facebook game asks to count Natives on bridge

Wednesday, August 22, 2007  

A game posted on the social networking site Facebook asks users to count how many Native people are on the Trans-Canada Highway bridge in British Columbia.

First Nations in the Cowichan Valley walk the bridge to cross into Victoria. They say the game is racist and makes fun of Native people.

"I want them to shut the bloody thing down. It's ridiculous. They don't even know they're racist," Steve Sxwithul'txw of the Penelakut First Nation told The Victoria Times Colonist.

A second game called "How many Indians on the bridge?" was also posted on Facebook but was changed on Monday to a page called "The Duncan Bridge."

Get the Story:
Internet game raises ire of Island First Nations (The Victoria Times Colonist 8/22)
Facebook content targets aborginals (The News Leader Pictorial 8/22)

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