Let the First Nations people choose to share what they are willing to share, don't take special things and demand they share. Say a kid has a special doll that belonged to their Grandma who just died they bring to school and are thinking of maybe sharing at show and tell...but maybe not, because the fact their…

I know one of the guys who wrote a few episodes....i am actually going to say "smarter than you were giving them credit for."

AAAAnd I'm probably the only one who thought, "As in LEX?"

Yo, didn't we talk earlier? That "melting pot" line is AFTER erradicating the First Nations people. Killing the millions(!!) of people living in North America creating a population void that was then taken up by foreign settlers. Because there were so many different places those settlers came, yes, american culture…

you do not share blame, but you have BENEFITED from it. Assuming you live in North America, you have grown up on property that was once First Nations until they were diseased, murdered or forced off the land by the government at the insistence of settlers. Where as those communities (including European Jewish…

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.