Most of my pictures from Epcot come from the “World Showcase” which could be a dissertation in itself–it was fascinating to see which aspects and icons from countries they chose to feature, which were omitted, and how little explanation was given with the structures and images.

The picture above (and most that follow) comes from the Canadian village, which was almost exclusively Native themed–while interestingly the American Village looked like a stereotypical new England town:

Anyway, after the jump, lots of photos of Canadian First Nations Appropriations, a few Mayan/Aztec appropriations, followed by some disturbing representations of Indigenous Africans at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

behind the totem pole you can see the rest of the Canadian Village–pretty nondescript More Canadian Village

They had “traditional” masks to take pictures with outside the village Behind the cash register inside the “trading post” Trading Post Souvenir coin machine inside trading post Dream catchers for sale Apparently the dream catchers are from a “100% Native Owned” company. hmm. Now we go to Mexico!