Re: With all due respect......regarding current pet peeve -- Native Circle

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Date Posted: 08:06:34 11/08/09 Sun
Author: Ten Charges (annoyed by stupidity)
Subject: Re: With all due respect......regarding current pet peeve
In reply to: Da'he'tih'hi 's message, "With all due respect......regarding current pet peeve" on 17:08:30 08/28/09 Fri

i don't mean to offend you, but i want to honor you by dressin up like you for halloween. could u send me a picture of yourself so i can make sure i paint my skin just like yours, and get the right wig? and if you are chubby, i want to make sure to get enough padding under my clothes. don't be offended. i just wanna dress up like you. you should be HONORED.

just cause ya don't know any better does not make it okay. and it ain't cause we ndns are all over sensitive and shit. use your brain, and stop whining. two-hawks is dead spot on with what he says about how stupid it is to dress your kiddies or yourself up like indians.

and as for cherokee nc, i been there. and most of those shops sellin that garbage are owned by whites. and even if they are owned by ndns, hell, ndns gotta make a damn livin! and that garbage is what white folks buy! its the same damn reason they wanna dress up like us! use your head and stop makin excuses. duhh.

sorry to mess up your idea for a halloween costume.

ten charges

>After reading the pet peeve of John Two-Hawks, with
>all due respect most surely, I sometimes wonder if we
>have become too touchy in regards to such "things".
>
>There is ignorance of most people of the Indian ways
>and beliefs and such practices of "dressing up a
>child" as an Indian I'm sure is not meant to offend. I
>ask if we don't look too deep sometimes into reading
>things. Does this parent purposely dress this child as
>an Indian to insult the Indian race. Surely not.
>
> I think as children, at least in my childhood, we
>felt honored in doing such. We did not know the
>meaning of the feathers, or the face paints or the
>clothing, but we did know and were aware even as
>children that the Indian hold their heads high and are
>a proud people as all should be. How could a child not
>want to emulate that?
>
>Maybe kids feel it's just cool to hold the bow and
>arrow, wave a tomahawk, but I wonder, after a visit to
>Cherokee N. Carolina, why it is that the Indian sells
>these wares in tourist town stores that are owned and
>operated by the Cherokee people? Is that not an act of
>condoning the very thing that some see as an insult?
>
>I respect the opinions of others and John Two-Hawks,
>but maybe there would not be so much troubles in this
>world, this Mother Earth, if people would stop looking
>too deep into innocent actions.
>
>My opinion only and as stated, I mean no disrespect
>and am not attacking anyone or their opinions. Open
>dialogue is good for the soul.......yes?
>
>Blessings
>
>Da'he'tih'hi

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