Miighan-Kurt

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The Miighan-Kurt Company ( http://www.miigi.com )started to operate on November 15. 2001. It belongs to a number of Native and Turkic artists and is coordinted by Muhammed Sonny Mercan of Turkic ancestry was born in the Balkans on Feb.16.1966. The Anishinabek (Ojibway/Chippewa) word Miighan means wolf. The reason for the company’s name being wolf is that the wolf has an important role in both Turtle Island (Native name for America) and Turkic Native cultures with the people of the wolf clan usually being business people. Speakers of archaic Turkic dialects understand the meaning of the word Miighan or in short Miigu or Miigi to mean wolf. The company deals with both Nations and for that reason the word Miigi was chosen to be the name of its website. Since year 2005, the coordinator of the company also runs the website SNTC News and Views from the Native World http://sibirga.net.tripod.com. He is an active supporter of indigenous cultures in Siberia and the Americas. He is also involved in supporting the protection of wildlife and the environmental, though he is a skilled in traditional hunting and fishing. Currently Sonny does artwork inspired by his indigenous Turkic ancestry and culture. His artwork has made its way to a number of galleries and private collections in Australia (private collection of Toni DeLandellas, Broadmeadows, VIC) Canada, Denmark (Artdanish.dk/Folk_Art), New Zealand (private collection of Shirley Dali, Rotorua, Aotearoa), Peru (private collection of Luis Antonio Vasquez Coronel, Nuevo Chimbote, Peru) Turkey(private collection of Mustafa Tasbas, Gaziantep, Turkey), Russia (private collection of Akhat Maneshev, Novokuznetsk, Siberia Ref.), and the US.