read this:
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wrote this:
Mr. Stuever,
You probably do not know about 20th century US Government policies regarding Indians, that as recently as the 1950s the gov't sponsored programs to get the indians off their own land, into the cities, and white-ify them. This program was meant to educate them to leave their own culture, religion and language behind; the barriers to success in a white world.
The reason I bring this up is because your article in the Washington Post today presents the viewpoint of a man who seems slightly offended that Indians are STILL upset about all that bad stuff that happened to them SO long ago.
You dismiss their headdresses and tribal getup as an anachronism which has no place in the white world, castigating white people who respectfully try to understand, while simultaneously admitting your own misdirected love for their savage mysticism which, incidentally, is a racist preconceived notion that I'm pretty sure Indians would prefer you leave behind.
Everything that you say which comes remotely close to being respectful has a glib parenthetical comment, a subtle jibe against a people who should try to live up to their self-imposed obsolete lifestyles a little better.
I could go through each of your paragraphs and find at least one inadvertently (or worse...not) offensive thing you said (and I'm not a even a Native American or history student) but I'll satisfy myself with this one:
Wizened grandmas scootered around on late-model motorized wheelchairs. Traditional music came out of the sound system with occasional modern backbeat mixed in behind it. Indian families pushed high-end strollers, drank Diet Pepsi, wore fanny packs under shawls. Indians in full ceremonial garb waited for the morning procession to start, and everyone seemed to be using flip phones. "Joe, this is Curtis, I'm on the Mall and it's Tuesday morning," said a man in a bright, beaded, violet-and-silver ceremonial outfit and headdress. "If you get this, then call us back so we can find you."
Wizened grandmas, full ceremonial garb, zipping around on motor scooters and drinking Diet Pepsi, or talking on a cell phone? How absurd.
That is like saying, 'they are Indians, so lets subjugate them to their traditional role of badass savage, and NOT let them use modern anything.'
What do you want them to do man, just live on their shitty reservation land and pretend like everything is hunky-dory in the 1400s?
My friend Bayes said it best: "the author was all mad that they weren't scalping people and whooping"
You have pigeon-holed an entire nation of people of all different cultures and beliefs into this tiny little box of 'brave warrior or noble shaman'. Sure, we think it's a fine characterization because it seems to shed a good light on them, but it also a dehumanizing light, and for you to pretend like you know anything about these people is like saying I know what its like to play golf on the moon. Same thing with the Washington Redskins, we think we are honoring the first people on this continent for their bravery in battle by naming our football team after them, but this pinches their complex social, spiritual and physical society into a teeny tiny little stereotype that completely misses the fact that they are human beings who deserve to write their own history, not have it told to them by the very people who robbed them of it.
The one thing I'm confused about is you seem to mock the misunderstanding white people as much as you do the silly Injuns, I guess its easy to stand back and be critical but it sure makes you look like a prick. I'm not sure what the point of this email is, just to let off some steam I guess, but next time I think you would be better served to just report the news and not throw in your own dissembling commentary. The Native American Museum is a step toward helping what is undoubtedly the most oppressed minority in the United States and anything but complete pious admiration for it is disgraceful. It seems like you didn't know any better and any self-respecting person would forgive you for that (most Indians probably wouldn't even bother to call you on it) but I think you should be ashamed of yourself.
-Jonathan Zuckerman
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