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After the recent success of banning Native American headdresses from sale at Glastonbury Festival, now a petition has been launched to forbid tipis.
Last week, a petition at Change.org saw 65 signatures prove successful in convincing organisers of the Worthy Farm event to forbid the sale of Native American headdresses - following in the footsteps of various other major events around the world, due to the racial sensivity and cultural meaning of the headgear.
Now, a new petition (which may be slightly less serious) has been started for similar reasons.
"(This is a) petition to ban teepees and their use in a leisure environment," it reads. "The use in festival camping fields belittles the historic Native American Indians symbolism a tee pee holds."
Many used it as a forum to agree, with Patrick Macleay writing "I'm concerned that we are on a slippery slope to offending native Americans, and if we don't implement this now we may have to ban tents too", and Dorian Williams simply added "Because Tipis do my head in..."
Meanwhile, others used it to voice their outrage.
James Kitch wrote: "I'm signing this because I don't believe that donning a headress could be deemed racially detrimental and if it is then a little bit of us all has died.... Come on...."
All 150,000 tickets for Glastonbury sold out in record time. Fleetwood Mac are currently bookies' favourites to headline, with AC/DC and Muse also hotly-tipped.
Glastonbury 2015 takes place from Wednesday 24 to Sunday 28 June, with other rumoured acts including Foo Fighters, Queen, Depeche Mode, AC/DC, Diana Ross, Foals and Fatboy Slim.
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