My World
My world is not the same as yours. Less open doors. Crazier whores. Evil seeping from my pores.
My world is violent and full of strife. Guns and knives. Soar and dive. Live to be alive.
Never Thought
Never thought Id live to find love much less lose it.
Never thought Id find myself only to lose the world.
Never thought Id be happy let alone miss the feeling.
Never thought there’d be something worth thinking about.
I never thought.
Because Cherokee people have never worn warbonnets unless they’re playing to tourists’ ideas of what an Indian is supposed to look like. But why would you have any idea about your own culture before putting a permanent tribute to it on your body?
I think you’d have to be Native American to see how proud of who he is,I guess. But tribal tattoos can only do so much. The can show both ignorance and pride at the same time. Warbonnets weren’t worn just to entertain the white man, they were worn for religious,spiritual, and cultural purposes.
It’s like comparing a white man who has an American flag tatttoo.It’s not, though. What this woman has done is comparable to an Australian man getting an American flag tattoo because he’s proud of his Australian heritage. All flags aren’t the same and, likewise, all Native imagery isn’t the same.
Warbonnets were/are worn traditionally by Plains Indians, and they hold great honor and significance culturally, religiously, ceremoniously to those tribes. But they don’t hold significance to other tribes, like the Cherokee, who adopted the use of them to cater to a tourist industry in the 1800s that expected all Natives to look like those in Wild West shows and to assimilate with neighboring tribes during forced relocation. Basically: warbonnets weren’t worn by Plains tribes to entertain the white man, but that is the only reason the Cherokee wore them. They may hold some historical significance for other tribes because of that, but they only hold cultural significance to Plains tribes.
I don’t think pride and ignorance are compatible. She’s reinforcing the stereotype that there’s one Native culture, and, in doing so, is further degrading the meaning and significance of warbonnets in Plains culture and belittling her own culture’s significance to history. Being a proud Lakota, I take offense to that.
Do you really think that the girl who got this tattoo had major intentions of ‘reinforcing the stereotype that there’s one Native culture, and, in doing so, is further degrading the meaning and significance of warbonnets in Plains culture and belittling her won culture’s significance to history”?
Seriously?
You are just ignorant and you take things too far. She is proud of her culture, she got something that symbolizes her culture onto her body so she can be reminded of her roots forever.
So do me a favor and shut up.
No, I don’t think that was her intention at all. I’m sure her intention was to honor her heritage with a Native tattoo. But I’ve also been studying and talking about racism and Native-issues, specifically, long enough to know that intention doesn’t mean anything unless we’re talking about hurt feelings; impact is what matters. And cultural degradation is precisely the impact actions like hers have on cultures facing cultural genocide.
But, you clearly missed my main point: She didn’t get a tattoo that symbolizes her culture, her heritage, or her “roots” because warbonnets ARE NOT and HAVE NEVER BEEN a part of Cherokee culture. She got one that symbolizes mine.
And if you don’t like me sharing my opinion about my own cultural issues on my own blog, you’re encouraged to unfollow me.
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Creative
ttownclown asked: What would be your biggest regret if you were breathing your last breath?
Not getting a chance to do things right.
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
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Nor do they deserve breath
