Trust me, this is what this author does. She did the same thing when J.K. Rowling’s American Wizarding House names were released, without any insight into the piece itself or any idea of the context in which they could be used.

You hit the nail on the head! I wish YOU were writing for io9. Then I wouldn’t be considering leaving it right now. Articles like this make me start thinking I should take my clicks elsewhere.

It’s really just provocation for the sake of making her own name. The comments seem divided, but I hope readers on this site…

But how do they actually know ANY of that if the work itself hasn’t come out? Not a bit of the actual content of the movie has been released, especially not specifically how Native American characters are depicted. The people blindly criticizing are just as bad as the Christians who refuse to read the books because…

Oh, I wonder who benefits the most from these articles? The Native Americans mentioned in them, the wolrd as a whole, or simply the journalists and people who run nativeappropriations.com?

These “scholars” (along with io9) can’t write fiction on the level that Rowling and other authors can, so they try and get their…

So, Katharine Trendacosta, are you Native American? Because you do realize that this article and its manufactured offense without any context at all is a type of cultural appropriation if you yourself aren’t the race in which you’re “standing up for”.

Seriously, if you believe that any representation of MYTHOLOGY from…