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culturalappropriationon:

infidelcupcake: comicgirl316: wtf-imi: special-snowflake-hall-of-fame: commanderabutt: culturalappropriationon: zarakitty: Cultural appropriation encompasses the fetishisation and white washing of other cultures to make it ‘acceptable’ while ignoring literally everything else, and until being a PoC is ‘less than’ leave their culture the fuck alone.



Just my two cents.



Just a reminder of who the woman is in the picture is: http://racheldashae.tumblr.com/post/7002840913/head-desk-this-is-a-photo-of-me-and-guess “This is a photo of me. And guess what? I am apache and choctaw, you morons. But I am sure your ignorance and your racism got in the way of actually finding the source of this photo, and seeing I have written blog after blog about being Native American, and my pride for my heritage that has been instilled in me.” Obviously the 1/3 statistic is because of images like this and white girls wearing headresses. *eye rolls* Well, actually researching the issue might challenge their dearly held belief that white people wearing feathers incites rape. It’s still disrespectful as fuck for non natives to wear headdresses. Feels like your shitting on our culture. If you want something that’s apart of Native American culture at least buy it from Native Americans who sell goods. Research what you are “dressing” up as. Each tribe is different. Lets say there was a “white person” with an actual eagle feather headdress or even a single eagle feather can be fined upwards to $25,000. She’s beautiful. (Did someone actually steal her photo and put the statistic over it?) I’m native too. I’m actually a statistic. Weird. 1 in 3. Fucking scary. To your question about if this is stolen^^^ Answer: Yes. ZaraKitty stole this from Rachel DaShae’s blog and imposed the statistic over it as well as implying Rachel was knowingly sexualized her race. Honestly, she’s doing a covered nude portrait, this isn’t sexual at all. To be fair, I don’t think it was Zarakitty who put the words on it. This image has been running about uncredited for a while. She likely just save it and decided to post it when she need a good outrage post. And though unlikely, it may have come from the magazine it was originally taken for rather than her blog.

I would like to point out about the eagle feather thing: you don’t own them. It’s most likely fineable because in America, they’re endangered. Otherwise it would be a stupid law. The only reason it’s not illegal for various Native tribes is because eagle feathers are a significant part of many tribe’s cultures and religion.

This law, for example, is not in Canada because Eagles are all over the place here. I drive through some provinces and see like 10 of them flying around.

What people need to realize is that Natives don’t own feathers as a cultural item. Birds exist all over the world and almost all cultures have incorporated feathers into their religions, their fashions, and their home decoration. What native tribes do own is the specific arrangement of these feathers into the specific items that are only used in Native tribes. So Native Americans can be offended about the use of a Native head dress being used out of context, but they can’t be angry at Brazilians for having feather head garments or at bag-pipers wearing feathered hats.

So, to be clear, even if this woman were white, she’s not out of line using a feather, war paint, or braiding her hair because none of those things are exclusive to Natives. The fact that this woman is of colour and easily identifiable as a Native woman makes this even less of an issue because you can’t argue that it’s the fetishization of what is intended to look Native.