Cultures have been appropriating from one another since before the dawn of civilization and typically, this is a good thing.

(1) The Skinwalkers are not considered fictional by the tribes. They are “real” to them as Jesus Christ is to Christians.

Gay, evil, wizard Jesus sounds like an awesome character.

I just find it funny that people are *surprised* that she wrote something lazy and bad. She is a highly creative person but she isn't a brilliant writer and never has been.

Nothing in her description of what’s wrong with the stories resembles appropriation unless you think that it just means “depictions I don’t like.”

Critically evaluating something is one thing. Telling someone that they can’t write about something “because it’s not their culture” is dumb.

what the fuck kind of faux-outrage is this?

OK, so I get the issue with some of the factual history (like the name of the country thing), but this article just seems like it is looking to be offended. The idea that wand permits would not happen? Maybe the magical community was just more sensible or more paranoid (whatever your view). And can we just stop and…

If she had written Jesus as a gay, evil wizard I think Christians would be upset.

Associating Native Americans with “animal and plant magic”—with, it should be noted, no more detail than that—is leaning so hard on a stereotype it’s hard not to find it offensive.

I had to stop reading your review right here. You find this offensive? So, you would have rather she portray them have an affinity for…

I say this from the bottom of my heart.

“animal magic” - Well, yeah, at least where I come from, Iroquois, Algonquin, Huron, Mohawk, do say that there are complex rituals before and during a hunt as you have to have a connection and respect with the animal you are hunting until they gift themselves to you. So that sounds about right.


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Yeah, I guess I’m a bad American, but...I don’t care. Really. At all. I’m not outraged. I can certainly see how some Native Americans may not be thrilled to death over it, sure, but it’s really just a tempest in a teapot to me.

..soooo Uk writer does book series where Magic Land Britain is represented by twee 19th century style boarding schools ,Steam Trains , Butter beer and world war two style ministries , and also other European countries are full of stereotypes , and US sci fi and fantasy fans say its a magical well fleshed out world…

I’m Native American. I, in no way, found that offensive. Native Americans of many tribes were very advanced, but there were also outside influences that were more advanced. There is mysticism in our own tales for each other, and we STILL use plants and roots as traditional medicine. She glossed over details and did…

I find this criticism hilarious given the number of American authors who barge in and vomit all over European History, particularly that of the British Isles, and never get called on it.

What part of “fictional history” is so damn difficult? This is a pathetic bit of outrage pandering that is beneath even the standards of this site. Clearly, wands are meant to equate to guns, which the Europeans had and the Native American tribes did not. (And a cursory reading of 19th century history will tell you…