why do white people think they have a right to give permission to other white people to wear sacred items from cultures that are not there own?
like, who much undeserved sense of entitlement do you have to have to do that?
According to Christina Fallin (Gov. of OK’s daughter) “a woman in a headdress can be a beautiful thing.” She is on point! However not just any woman can put on a headdress. Minnie Hollow Wood earned her feathers through extreme bravery and is a woman warrior. It is not a beautiful thing, it is an honorable thing.
(via kakalotl)
posting photos of people wearing costume warbonnets promotes racism and desecrates a sacred item that is still used traditionally by several Native tribes. Cultural appropriation is an act of racism, an action that dehumanizes a group of people and/or a race while stealing parts of their culture.
I am a modern Lakota winyan. No accent. No paint. No feathers. I’m like no Indian you’ve ever seen. Because I am not a mascot. Or a blockbuster archetype.
Someone dressed like a gothic taxidermist is trying to sell me my own culture. “Your values and beliefs are for sale!” he proclaims in redface. “So is your land. I’ll buy it for you [if you see my movie].” Good trade? Spending $5 million on land worth $14,000 to sell a movie made for $250 million. I’m no good at math. But that seems excessive. Over the top. Not enough…#greatwhitesaviorcomplex.
When Racism knocks on your door, it’ll be riding a pinto, wearing a bird, and wrapped in a Comanche flag.
…Why put $5 million into the pockets of a greedy old white man? Why not give the $5 million directly to the tribe? Why not consult with the people you’re hoping to impact before rushing out and doing what YOU think is best for them? Who knows what’s best, anyway?
And that’s what this is really all about. Natives don’t have control. Of anything…How much we need. What we can have. Where we can have it. Our images are not our own. They belong to those with money. And I want to scream, “THESE IMAGES YOU CREATE HURT ME!” You may not know it, but they hurt you, too.
Ours is a Halloween heritage. A logo legacy. Slot machine sovereignty. Tonto traditions. Ancestry for the price of admission.
(via feministwerewolf-blog)
hey culture appropriation supporter, if you love bindis and war bonnets so much, how come i only see you reblogging them when they’re on a white person??? and never on the person of the ethnicity/background to which the cultural significant thing belongs???
(via stringsdafistmcgee)
Take Gun First (aka Eli Guardipee) the husband of Flag Woman (aka Sadie Guardipee) - Blackfeet (Pikuni) - no date
