Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: A thread dedicated to awful Aboriginal rip-off stuff
I know wolf shirts and faux aboriginal spirituality is big in America as well as Canada, but here we're taking the extra step of pushing it as being part of our Canadian identity. For example, the 2010 winter olympics had an inukshuk as the icon, and aboriginal-inspired mascots. Our money has aboriginal art on it. And there's a million attempts to capitalize on it.
Here's a hilarious example I saw in a store earlier today. Coffee, with animal spirits tied to them. This is so amazingly ridiculous.
Post any crazy aboriginal exploiting stuff you've encountered! When I'm in San Diego, I see all sorts of Mexican aboriginal inspired things for sale. I want to see how it varies all over North America.
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:21 pm Post subject:
We always giggle when we see people with dream catchers hanging in vehicles.
Apparently native Americans really resent that kind of thing, but rarely speak up.
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:00 pm Post subject:
OMG Natives are amazing plz dont hate!!!!
The art on the coffee is AMAZING. Canada is the spirit of the north, the coffee represents our bond with the earth and with the history of our land. We could easily make the coffee a Columbian or Spanish thing, but lets keep things Canadian here. Thunderbird is soooo cool, I mean it flies and strikes stuff with lightning and like lands on totem poles and stuff. I would drink the Thunderbird coffee and I would drink it in the rain. Imagine BOOM rain falls on you and your like lookin up and drinking this coffee that is like drinking Canada's native essence.
The second picture appears to have been taken at a trinket store or a tourist trap. That is tourist gear. I live near a native store and they sell this stuff along with dinosaur teeth. Hand made dream catchers. Dream catchers are soooo awesome but the movie was horrible, well the part where the animals are all infected and walking by the cabin was cool but the rest sucked. SSDD was cool, I never heard of that abrev before so guess two things about the movie were good.
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject:
Ugh, file that under lame. Can't stand this sorta stuff. *thinks* Actually, discussing this subject with people who have a rudimentary understanding of Native Americans but profess an undying adoration and worship of their religion, would be my greatest irritation. _________________ "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife."
-Justice Holmes
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject:
He was hating on the people who overly love them without knowing anything actually about them. _________________ (4:45:41 PM) Jarem: It becomes increasingly difficult to feel noble in my causes when my cause is to defend my charge from her own violent tendencies.
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:47 pm Post subject:
Mari Red Bear wrote:
If it was a Native owned company I'd not say a word, but this...this reeks of cultural appropriation.
Yes. Very much so.
There's nothing like this anywhere near the Menominee res, that much is certain. Occasionally you can buy native made birchbark baskets and whatnot, usually when there's an event -on- the res.
But then again Menominee aren't famous (or is that infamous?) like other tribes and nations here in the US, like the Navajo and Cherokee who often can rely on tourism money, though to my knowledge you wouldn't find items such as these--you'd find jewelry, art (not the 'Native' version of a Velvet Elvis painting), etc. In fact many people not from the region have never heard of the Menominee people...in part because they are sovereign. Apparently the government had no desire to take over a Northern Wisconsin region that is subject to severe winters and therefore they were never displaced. There was nothing to get from them, I suppose? _________________ An artist is a creature driven by demons ~Faulkner
The west coast nations are highly marketable, it's possible to get art actually made by aboriginal people. I know a few places that sell jewelry and whatnot made by aboriginal artists, mostly high end touring areas though. Totem pole carvers find a lot of work from galleries, cities, the government, and so forth. Buuuut then you get the mini totem poles, often which are mass produced in China to be sold in gift shops.
Oh, and the wolf dream catchers weren't from a tourist trap. It was from an old people house decoration store in a mall next to a retirement home.
The west coast nations are highly marketable, it's possible to get art actually made by aboriginal people. I know a few places that sell jewelry and whatnot made by aboriginal artists, mostly high end touring areas though. Totem pole carvers find a lot of work from galleries, cities, the government, and so forth. Buuuut then you get the mini totem poles, often which are mass produced in China to be sold in gift shops.
Oh, and the wolf dream catchers weren't from a tourist trap. It was from an old people house decoration store in a mall next to a retirement home.
Yeah, you can generally tell the difference when you check the back and find "made in china" stamped on it
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Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 1:16 am Post subject:
Mari Red Bear wrote:
Yeah, you can generally tell the difference when you check the back and find "made in china" stamped on it
Don't you love it? Stuff's probably loaded with lead, too, like all the poisoned stuff they've been exporting of late. In the wake of a recent import problem, it was discovered that when we started cracking down on the lead content, they began using cadmium. When asked, an exporter defended their actions.
Ironic that they export items that are not permitted to be sold in that country though. Sad. So sad. _________________ An artist is a creature driven by demons ~Faulkner
In the wake of a recent import problem, it was discovered that when we started cracking down on the lead content, they began using cadmium. When asked, an exporter defended their actions.
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