Thomas Doughton: October 31, 2014
I suppose it's nice to have an
issue. For the past couple days I've been reading what seem to be endless
comments from Native American groups dealing with two issues: whether non
Indians should wear "Indian" costumes for Halloween and whether
different types of action should be directed to changing sports team names and/
or rejecting mascots. In light of all of the vital and important issues
confronted by indigenous peoples in the Americas and elsewhere, this seems
silly and trivial, like all of the time, energy & effort, in my opinion,
wasted on the alleged 'crimes' of Christopher Columbus and what will be the
soon beginning predictable blah-blah-blah about Thanksgiving. Just one person's
opinion....And, is there a great difference in this foolishness and someone
with one single eighteenth-century Indian 'ancestor' putting on costumes for
what are called pow wows?
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