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Originally Posted by flyfischer
I live extremely close to a cherokee reservation in western North Carolina and this whole thing kind of cracks me up. I wish you guys could see this place. Their whole town is a giant mockery of their culture. Every other building sells rubber hatchets and fake moccasins. Most of them have places to get your picture taken with a chief in a headdress. One specifically says "get your picture taken with Big Chief Bear"...and they're saying the name Redskins is disrespectful? Frankly, they need to stop dragging their own culture down before they start attacking organizations like the Redskins.
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Who is they? Do the owners and operators of those vendors represent the entire Native American population. And who do you think you are to have any opinion about what they do within those reservations? If some otherwise impoverished entrepenurial Native Americans choose to cash in on the mainstream's love affair with kitsch, that's not the same as a multi-billion dollar revenue sports team appropriating their likeness. Also, I'd like to alert you to the last couple hundred years of history, and the material conditions that have prompted tribes to resort to activities not otherwise deemed culturally respectful by people like you, e.g. the operation of casinos and tobacco stands.
But again, I really have only one point to make and that is this. If you are not Native American you have no right, in my opinion, to argue what is and isn't "respectful" of Native American culture. And that's pretty much all I have to say about this.