Me thinks you need to take my first part of my commentary *less* serious, and the second half more serious.

I feel the same way, and I actually said something like that to a Native friend who tends to be very aggressive towards whites trying to "help out"....but he was like, "If you want to help, you should!" He was baffled why i wasn't doing anything although I wanted to. Its a fine balance between offering a hand to help…

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Yes, it is offensive that you pin your "kimono" with a pin rather than an obi...a properly fitted kimono needs a fuckin' obi and about 5 hidden sashes to lay correctly. If it only takes a pin its probably not a real japanese kimono, but probably a chinese robe with a dragon on it thats labeled as a "kimono"...maybe a…

To add to what EWJ said, I am under the impression for the folks who wear regalia for dances MOST of the time those people make their own outfits. They have meaning, take time, family is involved in making it...and they display awesome ingenuity like the chewing tobacco lids getting turned into bells. One does not…

I have to admit, though i understand the history, what are we whities supposed to do with the pretty things our native friends have given us? I have a beaded headband that I have always kept put away because I felt akward wearing it. I was given the headband by an elder of the Mataponi tribe when I was a child and…

seriously!

I found Sarah's piece woefully lacking in eloquence and thought. It sounded like an opinion speech written for a 10th grade final. How disappointing for Harvard, a supposed higher ed Ivy league school, to print such rubbish.

Eh, the oldest lady seems pretty hilarious. Infact, all of them seem confident and self posessed. I guess i don't see a problem except sonny boy isn't going to get to have kids.

I totally agree that it is inappropriate for non-Natives to borrow those symbols and use them willy nilly....but to people who think that the "Indians are gone" I was trying to make a point: they are not gone and infact their cultures continue to evolve. You like, like living breathing cultures with real living…

1/8 is enough to be eligible for tribal benefits.

"It's plantation mistress in full-effect. " reeeeeally? When did plantation mistresses EVER tell their slaves that their culture was "Cool" and make it mainstream? About the only think slavers approved of was their slaves singing, other than that everything else was shamed.

Coming to say the same damn thing.

Feather headdresses exsist in many, many tribes outside the plains. Pictures by early American settlers show various styles of feathered headdress in Eastern seaboard tribes going all the way down to Mexico with their fantastical headresses.

I hope Jackson got a walk after that.

I've been doing celebrities the last few years. I LOVE trying to get down people's personalities and act all night long. I started with Marilyn Monroe with the pink getup from "Gentlmen Prefer Blondes" And learned the whole song and dance of "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend." Last year I went as Harpo and that was…

yeeeeah, I'd not be okay with that. I mean, the kid will probably be okay but its not cool. I know it sounds crazy but I would probably have a firm discussion with "Jessie" Something like, "Hey Jessie, I know you are here too and thats ok, but this is our living space. Don't scare my daughter or you won't be welcome…

Apperently I'm only going to have 2 trick or treaters. The one thing that sucks about the country.

Pigs, ug! they get too smart for their own good if you let them! I need to get my girl some pumpkins. I just started a twitter account for her (http://twitter.com/RosieDaPig) but no one is following it, :(

Ug, should have stopped at the happy story about your grandmas ghost.