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The SDCC Files: Arturo’s Collected Coverage
By Arturo R. García This year, we expanded our coverage at San Diego Comic-Con to bring you more panels, more interviews, and more images from pop culture’s weekend-long prom. Kicking us off: a roundup...
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Quoted: Race + Sports and Native Mascots
Photograph by Jim McIsaac/Getty You’d think that a team represented by a giant anthropomorphized baseball would be able to remain safely outside the perennial controversies surrounding the sports...
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Thanks for the severed head. You proved my point
[Note: The image above has been making the rounds of social media recently. Adrienne K. of Native Appropriations pointed out on Facebook that the image "makes a powerful statement against Indian...
View ArticleNative American Activists’ Super Bowl Response: ‘Proud To Be’
By Arturo R. García The National Congress of American Indians released “Proud To Be” over Super Bowl weekend, a video adding more faces and names to the increasing call for the National Football League...
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Dear Christina Fallin
By Guest Contributor Adrienne Keene, cross-posted from Native Appropriations Dear Christina Fallin, Last night, someone tagged me in the comments of your post on Instagram, a picture of you wearing...
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Race + Sports: Dan Snyder’s ‘Original Americans Foundation’
By Arturo R. García Dan Snyder apparently attempted to sidestep the continuing criticism around his National Football League franchise on Monday, announcing the formation of an “Original Americans...
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‘My Children Are Not Mascots': Cleveland Stares The #ChangeTheName Debate In...
By Arturo R. García The campaign against derogatory team names “honoring” Native American communities saw another flashpoint over the weekend, as a group of protesters in Cleveland encountered one...
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Heidi Klum’s Redface Photo Shoot
By Guest Contributor Ruth Hopkins, cross-posted from Last Real Indians All images via Facebook. Heidi Klum, I’m so disgusted with you. I can’t even look at you right now. I’ve been a fan of Heidi...
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Being Lakota, Becoming Greek
By Guest Contributor Megan Red Shirt-Shaw When I first stepped onto the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, I vowed I would never join a sorority. I had seen the process happen before – girls were...
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On ‘Canadian’ Co-opting Of Indigenous Food
Kekuli Café’s cheeky signage uses humor to subvert stereotypes. Via Kekuli Café.com By Guest Contributor Kelly Reid Foodies that follow culinary trends in cities such as Montreal, Toronto, and...
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The NFL & The Washington Redskins – A Piece for Pit River
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Image by Zennie Abraham via Flickr Creative Commons. By Guest Contributor Megan Red Shirt-Shaw On the first morning of this year’s NFL Draft, I turned on the television...
View ArticleMemorial Day: Remembering Soldiers of Color [The Throwback]
In honor of the U.S. celebrating Memorial Day today, we are reprinting this 2012 piece featuring veterans from many of our communities We’ll begin with a video that was shown here in San Diego earlier...
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A Call For An Annual #PrezRezVisit
By Guest Contributor Megan Red-Shirt Shaw Only four United States presidents have ever visited an Indian reservation during their terms: Calvin Coolidge in 1927, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, Bill...
View ArticleSan Francisco Giants ‘Honor’ Native Americans By Having Cops Bully Them
By Arturo R. García The advocacy group Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry (EONM), which has been involved in the ongoing campaign against the Washington, D.C. football team’s name, posted some...
View ArticleComing Attractions: This Is A Stereotype Sets Out To Combat Myths About...
By Arturo R. García In the midst of not only the fight to change the Washington D.C. pro football team’s name but the San Francisco Giants’ embarrassing display during “Native American Heritage Night,”...
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Violence against Indigenous Women: Fun, Sexy, and No Big Deal on the Big Screen
by Guest Contributor Elissa Washuta, originally published on Tumblr Captain Hook kidnaps Tiger Lily in Peter Pan. The body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine, a member of Sagkeeng First Nation, was pulled...
View ArticleNew Fundraising Campaign Seeks To Preserve Sacred Land Of Pe’ Sla
Just over two years after the first fight to save sacred Native land in South Dakota, a new fundraising drive seeks to complete the drive to keep Pe’Sla — “the Heart of everything” — in indigenous...
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Assimilation Aesthetic
By Guest Contributor Ruth Hopkins, cross-posted from Last Real Indians … And Native appropriation continues to evolve in ever more bizarre ‘fashion.’ Apparently putting scantily clad white women in...
View ArticleUnhappy Gilmore: Native American Actors and Activists Protest New Adam...
By Arturo R. García If Adam Sandler thought his brand of “humor” would keep getting a pass in 2015, the past few days have surely disabused him of that notion. As Indian Country Today Media Network...
View Article‘Hey Adam … Let’s Talk': The #NotYourHollywoodIndian Q&A
By Arturo R. García Earlier this week we covered the burgeoning campaign against Adam Sandler, Netflix, and their Ridiculous 6 project. During our coverage, we caught up to Megan Red-Shirt Shaw, who...
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