"The Potawatomis didn’t have a word for global business center"?

In advertising, Chicago, language, native languages, potawatomi by Adrienne K.14 Comments

I was waiting for my connecting flight at Chicago O’Hare, and spotted this advertisement on the opposite side of our gate. Close up on the text: It reads: “Chicago is the Potawatomi word for onion field. Apparently, the Potawatomis didn’t have a word for global business center.” This is an example of the use of Indigenous language and imagery that …