TUBA CITY – The head of the Navajo Skin Walkers Association (NSWA), who said he cannot release his name– but it is Something Yazzie–told Tlo’chi’iin News that he is extremely disappointed with the cultural misrepresentation of skinwalkers in the new JK Rowling’s series, “Magic in North America.”

“We were not consulted in anyway, they didn’t ask for our permission,” he said as he threw hair into a fire mixed with dirt while muttering an inaudbile incantation. “It isn’t right.”

The skinwalker took issue with how the White Puritan women were burned alive in the video teaser released in advance of the series.

“We would never stand on a cliff and let the eagle do all the work. What’s more we haven’t used flying sprit eagles for years. These days we usually use kerosene oil and matches. It’s much quicker and efficient. Flying spirt eagles take a long time to get started. And their fire-making capacity is limited to flames jetting out of their feathers.”



He also complained that Rowling’s book is Eurocentric. He took issue with the following quote from the website:

“The magic wand originated in Europe. Wands channel magic so as to make its effects both more precise and more powerful, although it is generally held to be a mark of the very greatest witches and wizards that they have also been able to produce wandless magic of a very high quality. As the Native American Animagi and potion-makers demonstrated, wandless magic can attain great complexity, but Charms and Transfiguration are very difficult without one.”

https://www.pottermore.com/collection-episodic/history-of-magic-in-north-america-en



Yazzie said, “you give me one of Harry Potter’s finger nails and his magic wand won’t be of any use. And what is this about Native American magic being so complex? It didn’t take us nine or ten movie installments to tell one story about a boy learning how to play with his magic stick. Europeans underestimate their own complexity.”

Yazzie went on to say he is more of a fan of the Fast and Furious series. “That’s more reflective of skinwalker culture. Driving around real fast and scaring people. Anyway, I never liked fantasy.”

Yazzie then morphed into a scary looking backward walking creature and scurried off into the dark.

Photo: Yazzie leaving interview in a hurry