“So I went to the West Hollywood street fair for the Halloween thing and I knew there was gonna be a buncha people dressed up like ‘Indians’ for halloween so I tried to shoot candids of em but this is only half of what I saw. This says that Americans see Native People and their culture as something this is no longer present and that our image is up for grabs for anyone to misuse.”
October 27, 2011
Fake Indians in West Hollywood
Halloween Horror Show: Fake Indians in West HollywoodThese images come from photographer Thosh Collins’s Facebook page. Here’s what Thosh (Pima/Osage/Seneca-Cayuga) had to say about them:
“So I went to the West Hollywood street fair for the Halloween thing and I knew there was gonna be a buncha people dressed up like ‘Indians’ for halloween so I tried to shoot candids of em but this is only half of what I saw. This says that Americans see Native People and their culture as something this is no longer present and that our image is up for grabs for anyone to misuse.” Comment: For more on the subject, see We're a Culture, Not a Costume" and Halloween Party in Happy Endings.
“So I went to the West Hollywood street fair for the Halloween thing and I knew there was gonna be a buncha people dressed up like ‘Indians’ for halloween so I tried to shoot candids of em but this is only half of what I saw. This says that Americans see Native People and their culture as something this is no longer present and that our image is up for grabs for anyone to misuse.”
Labels:
chiefs,
Halloween,
stereotypes,
wannabes
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