[ShepherdsDog]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon ... -1.3906757

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In Saskatoon, items from Indigenous designers and artisans are increasingly available. In November, for instance, Wanuskewin Heritage Park set up a seasonal store on Broadway Avenue.

But after another year of controversial stories of cultural appropriation — from Coachella to the Washington Redskins — non-Indigenous shoppers are asking themselves whether it's ever appropriate to wear Indigenous-themed gifts like clothing and jewelry.

One has to ask if natives wearing cowboy boots and hats the same?

[BartSimpson]

I'll be happy to boycott anything produced by natives since they hate me and my money.

[fifeboy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/indigenous-christmas-gifts-1.3906757

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In Saskatoon, items from Indigenous designers and artisans are increasingly available. In November, for instance, Wanuskewin Heritage Park set up a seasonal store on Broadway Avenue.

But after another year of controversial stories of cultural appropriation — from Coachella to the Washington Redskins — non-Indigenous shoppers are asking themselves whether it's ever appropriate to wear Indigenous-themed gifts like clothing and jewelry.

One has to ask if natives wearing cowboy boots and hats the same?

Even if they are cowboys?

[N_Fiddledog]

I think CBC is missing the plot again. As a basic point "cultural appropriation" is worthless nonsense.

It doesn't matter if wearing native crafts is cultural appropriation, because cultural appropriation doesn't matter.

[ShepherdsDog]

If humans didn't engage in cultural appropriation, we wouldn't have agriculture, an alphabet, science and technology, religions or languages. It's in our nature to borrow (steal) from each other to improve our own lives.

Hell, tea the beverage of the Empire, was stolen from the Chinese and grown in India. So too was the ship building technology and navigation that eventually led to the European conquest of the world's oceans and seas.

[Thanos]

It's only wrong if whites do it, even if it means the Natives selling the items go out of business. You guys should all know this by now.

[ShepherdsDog]

Thanos Thanos:

It's only wrong if whites do it, even if it means the Natives selling the items go out of business. You guys should all know this by now.

We always have homemade perogies and cabbage rolls at Christmas, as do most non slavic families in the area I grew up in. Is that cultural appropriation?

[Thanos]

Someone of eastern European origin should get something going to squeeze some reparations out of the government as a payment for all the harm caused by decades worth of bohunk jokes.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Thanos Thanos:

It's only wrong if whites do it, even if it means the Natives selling the items go out of business. You guys should all know this by now.

And if they go out of business it's because we're all racists who won't support Native businesses.

[fifeboy]

None of you guys listened in on the CBC broadcast today on this, did you!

[Thanos]

fifeboy fifeboy:

None of you guys listened in on the CBC broadcast today on this, did you!

Unless I was given a head-dress as a token of friendship from a tribe I wouldn't wear one because it would be stupid to do so. I also think a team named the "Redskins" is a disgusting insult and it should be changed to something else. I have no desire or willingness at all to diminish or insult these people if I can help it, and don't take anything I've said otherwise to be anything but a jape or (far more often) frustration over how Native politics in this country do nothing at all except reward a bunch of grifter chiefs and band councillors and serve no other purpose but to screw most of the Natives over.

That being said:

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non-Indigenous shoppers are asking themselves whether it's ever appropriate to wear Indigenous-themed gifts like clothing and jewelry.

Any whitey who's having some kind of existential crisis over buying a dreamcatcher from a Native crafts store or about wearing a piece of turquoise jewelry or one of those kick-ass leather jackets with all the neat strands on the back really has way too much time on their hands. And they've also been indoctrinated by political correctness to the point of being intimidated. It is, in a word, stupid for anyone to think this way.

[PluggyRug]

There are many Native craft stores in my area. We buy stuff from them all the time, mainly wood carvings of animals.

[Thanos]

Ditto. We still have nice framed postcard prints on the wall of some of those wonderful paintings Roy Henry Vickers did out on Vancouver Island way back when. If his gallery in Tofino is still there then everyone should make an effort to visit it if they're in the area. My mom bought them in the early 1990's on a trip out there and we have no intention of ever taking them down. Any libbo who says we should feel any kind of guilt over this can go get stuffed.

[ShepherdsDog]

A student made this. Hangs in my office. Seeing as he is Woodland Cree, and the subject isn't, is that a form of appropriation?

[Lemmy]

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