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Fake Indigenous art is a real problem in Vancouver Canada stores

Millions of visitors to Vancouver walk by tourist shops filled with dreamcatchers, inukshuks, mini totem poles and other Indigenous-themed souvenirs each year. But a Discourse investigation reveals that three-quarters of these shops appear to be selling some knock-offs, produced without any collaboration with Indigenous people. We visited 40 tourist shops in Gastown, on Robson Street, […]

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