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The moccasin-maker Minnetonka, 2½ years after apologizing for cultural misappropriation, has relaunched its best-known style after a redesign by a Red Lake Nation artist. The Thunderbird, first ...
A child-size Minnetonka suede and leather moccasin, pictured in 2011. The company has apologized for appropriating Native American culture and promised to do more to support Indigenous communities.
Minneapolis footwear company Minnetonka Moccasin first publicly apologized for its appropriation of the Native American culture in 2020, but even that was “long overdue." ...
The owners of Minnetonka share their reparations work, and announce their first moccasin collaboration with a Native artist. By Allison Kaplan October 10, 2022 ...
Minnetonka Moccasin Co., a local footwear company, is acknowledging and apologizing for Native American culture appropriation over the last 75-plus years. The company dropped the "moccasin" from ...
Minnetonka was the only Minnesota-based company on Fast Company's Brands That Matter award. The company was recognized for reckoning with decades of cultural appropriation with its moccasin slippers.
Minnetonka is apologizing for profiting off of Native American culture without acknowledging its role in the 75-year-old Minnesota company's line of moccasins and other footwear products.
On Indigenous Peoples Day, Minnetonka -- formerly known as Minnetonka Moccasin -- issued an acknowledgement and apology for benefitting from the appropriation of Native American culture. The ...
Minnetonka Moccasin Company, Inc., is suing Minneapolis-based Target Corporation for allegedly infringing on its trademarked thunderbird design, which appears on the company’s moccasins.
This brand first brought us classic moccasin-style flats, then introduced leather fringed boots, and is now stepping up its game once again! According to InStyle, Minnetonka and Opening Ceremony ...
A child-size Minnetonka suede and leather moccasin, pictured in 2011. The company has apologized for appropriating Native American culture and promised to do more to support Indigenous communities.