An Alberta Indigenous artist is apologizing after his artwork, depicting a bear wearing a marijuana leaf headdress, sparked controversy for a Toronto magazine. The cover art Carter created for the magazine has been the target of numerous complaints. Both illustrations feature a bear wearing a headdress made, not of eagle feathers, but of large marijuana leaves. If Indigenous artists can't use Indigenous iconography in art who can, he wonders. "I think it's important to reclaim that iconography, that Indigenous iconography," Carter said.

Source: CBC News April 20, 2018 15:32 UTC