Editing 2010 Winter Olympics (section)

====First Nations opposition====
Although the Aboriginal governments of the [[Squamish Nation|Squamish]], [[Musqueam Indian Band|Musqueam]], [[Lil'wat First Nation|Lil'wat]] and [[Tsleil-Waututh First Nation|Tsleil-Waututh]] (the "Four Host First Nations"), on whose traditional territory the Games were held, signed a protocol in 2004<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070808160218/http://fourhostfirstnations.com/downloads/4HN_Protocol_Final_Nov%2024.pdf 4HN_Protocol_Final_Nov 24.pub]</ref> in support of the games,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fourhostfirstnations.com/|title=Four Host First Nations|publisher=Four Host First Nations|access-date=February 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108042742/http://www.fourhostfirstnations.com/|archive-date=January 8, 2010|url-status=dead }}</ref> there was opposition to the Olympics from some [[indigenous people|indigenous]] groups and supporters. Although the [[Lil'wat]] branch of the [[St'at'imc Nation]] is a co-host of the Games, a splinter group from the [[Seton Lake First Nation|Seton]] band known as the St'at'imc of Sutikalh, who have also opposed the Cayoosh Ski Resort, feared the Olympics would bring unwanted tourism and real estate sales to their territory.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.warriorpublications.com/?q=node/22|title=Sutikalh Re-occupation Camp|access-date=January 25, 2011|archive-date=March 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303145626/http://www.warriorpublications.com/?q=node%2F22|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/1738|title=It's all about the Land|publisher=The Dominion|access-date=January 25, 2011|archive-date=July 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727034649/http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/1738|url-status=live}}</ref>

Local aboriginal people, as well as Canadian [[Inuit]], initially expressed concern over the choice of an [[inukshuk]] as the symbol of the Games, with some Inuit leaders such as former [[Nunavut]] Commissioner [[Peter Irniq]] stating that the inukshuk is a culturally important symbol to them. He said that the "Inuit never build inuksuit with head, legs and arms. I have seen inuksuit [built] more recently, 100 years maybe by non-Inuit in Nunavut, with head, legs and arms. These are not called inuksuit. These are called [[inunguat]], imitation of man."<ref>{{cite news|title=Olympic inukshuk irks Inuit leader|publisher=[[CBC.ca]] Sports|date=April 27, 2005|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympic-inukshuk-irks-inuit-leader-1.548870|access-date=August 13, 2008|archive-date=July 19, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719171555/http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2005/04/26/olympic-logo050426.html|url-status=live }}</ref> Local aboriginal groups also expressed annoyance that the design did not reflect the [[Coast Salish peoples|Coast Salish]] and [[Interior Salish]] native culture from the region the Games are being held in, but rather that of the Inuit, who are indigenous to the Arctic far from Vancouver.