I’m a big baseball fan, San Francisco Giants in particular, from the Barry Bonds, JT Snow and Rich Aurelia days. I’m also a Native person – Shoshone and Paiute from Nevada. So Native American Heritage Night at the SF Giants game on Monday, June 23rd seemed like an ideal time to attend a game with my little sister.

Unless you consider watching non-Native people prancing around in costume headdress and getting slammed to the ground by your hair by police ideal, I turned out to be quite wrong. Upon seeing a group of men who appeared to be non-Native passing around a red, white and blue plastic headdress, I and another Native man I just met decided to go talk to them about that not being an acceptable way to celebrate “Native American Heritage Night”.

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