Cultural Appropriation Cracker.

apihtawikosisan:

Warning…this is not even the worst of the pictures, consider whether you really need to click through or not.
thepitsshop:

Happy Columbus Day! Today America honors the slave trader, religious fanatic, gold seeker, and mass murderer Christopher Columbus. Happy Holiday from www.thepitsshop.com

I hadn’t seen this particular horrific picture before, so I googled it as well as clicking through to the linked page. It led me to many things, one of which is a partial list of “Indian Massacres“…the mass murder of indigenous peoples at the hands of colonizers. Reading the Bartolome de las Casas quote is one thing, “They made a gallows just high enough for the feet to nearly touch the ground, and by thirteens, in honour and reverence of our Redeemer and the twelve Apostles, they put wood underneath and, with fire, they burned the Indians alive.”…but seeing it illustrated is something else. Fuck.
Holy shit this series of pictures is disturbing beyond belief. And the thing is…Bartolome’s account has been available for hundreds of years, yet for all that time, the story has been…we are the savages. Somehow, someway, this is all ‘justifiable’.
Fuck.

Warning…this is not even the worst of the pictures, consider whether you really need to click through or not.

thepitsshop:

Happy Columbus Day! Today America honors the slave trader, religious fanatic, gold seeker, and mass murderer Christopher Columbus. Happy Holiday from www.thepitsshop.com

I hadn’t seen this particular horrific picture before, so I googled it as well as clicking through to the linked page. It led me to many things, one of which is a partial list of “Indian Massacres“…the mass murder of indigenous peoples at the hands of colonizers. Reading the Bartolome de las Casas quote is one thing, “They made a gallows just high enough for the feet to nearly touch the ground, and by thirteens, in honour and reverence of our Redeemer and the twelve Apostles, they put wood underneath and, with fire, they burned the Indians alive.”…but seeing it illustrated is something else. Fuck.

Holy shit this series of pictures is disturbing beyond belief. And the thing is…Bartolome’s account has been available for hundreds of years, yet for all that time, the story has been…we are the savages. Somehow, someway, this is all ‘justifiable’.

Fuck.

10/8/12

selchieproductions:

beautifulbiatch:

ᏗᎦᏘᏍᏗ: A word on cultural appropriation

fyeahcap:

I don’t think that Shakespeare is an appropriator because he didn’t appropriate the alphabet. His ancestors did. (Unless the alphabet was forced on Brits by the Romans, was it? I don’t know.) My point was that Romeo and Juliet could not have been written without appropriation at some point in history. R&J was actually a crappy example because I haven’t read it and don’t know anything about its history so the alphabet thing was all that I could come up with. I don’t know anything about the history of the alphabet, either, so I’m busted. But the point remains that no complex piece of culture has evolved independently of outside influences. Foreign influence is sometimes one of the most powerful promoters of the progression of culture. I’m sorry, I can’t give detailed examples since I don’t have a good enough knowledge of the details of history. So maybe my example was crappy but my point remains.

Though I think the part about their pants was my favourite.

Why was that your favorite? Maybe you are lacking in empathy.

“Foreign influence is sometimes one of the most powerful promoters of the progression of culture.”

Oh man, am I glad that I’ve been out most of the day. There’s really not a lot to add to the extensive critique others have already aimed at you, but really? Do you ever actually pause to think about what you’re saying before you let your mind lose on your blog?

Foreign influence in the Americas is what created the biggest genocide in history, with more than 90% of all Native Americans being decimated by colonialism. Foreign influence is also the very thing that created the Transatlantic Slave Trade which displaced and brutally murdered millions of Africans over hundreds of years and foreign influence is what to this day forces uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rain-forest to flee for their lives as murderous illegal loggers enter their traditional areas.

If you don’t know what you’re talking about, then don’t talk.

Anyway, I am sometimes nice, so here’s a book you can and should read before you say anything else about alphabets;

Jensen, Hans (1970). Sign Symbol and Script. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.

And for your education in order for you to realise that you’re wrong when it comes to your belief that ‘foreign influence is sometimes one of the most powerful promoters of the progression of culture’ - here you go;

Athia, Dr Renato et al (2007). Progress Can Kill: How Imposed Development Destroys the Health of Tribal Peoples. London: Survival International

Bourne, R. (2003). Invisible Lives. Undercounted, Underrepresented and Underneath: The Socio-Economic Plightof Indigenous Peoples in the Commonwealth. Commonwealth Studies Unit: London.

Kirmayer, LJ. and Valaskakis, G. (Eds.).The Mental Health of Canadian Aboriginal peoples: Transformations, Identity, and Community.University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver.

Cook, D.N. (1998). Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Dion Stout, M. and Kipling, G. (2003). Aboriginal people, Resilience and the Residential School Legacy. The Aboriginal Healing Foundation: Ottawa.

Fell, N. (2005). Argentine Tribe Losing Battle Against ‘Silent Genocide’. Sunday Herald: Edinburgh.

Hemming, J. (2003). Die if You Must: Brazilian Indians in the Twentieth Century. Macmillan: London.

IWGIA. (1989). Paraguay. Ethnocide: Mission Accomplished? IWGIA: Copenhagen.

Jasen, P. (1997). Race, Culture, and the Colonization of Childbirth in Northern Canada. Social History of Medicine 10(3), 383-400.

Joe, J.R., Young, R. (1994). Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin.

Kirmayer, L., Brass, G. and Tait, C. (2000). The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples: Transformations of Identity and Community. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 45, 607-616

Levang, P., Dounias, E., Sitorus, S. (2005). Out of the Forest, Out of Poverty? Forests, Trees and Livelihoods 15, 211-235.

Rabben, L. (1998). Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapo and the Onslaughtof Civilisation. Pluto Press: London.

Salazar, M. (2006). Indigenous People, Ignored Even by the Statistics. IPS News. 10 October 2006.

Shephard, R.J. and Rode, A. (1996). The Health Consequences of ‘Modernization’: Evidence from Circumpolar Peoples. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

05/1/12

[TRIGGER WARNING: genocide, pictures of a person's skull kept as a family heirloom]

youarenotyou:

madamethursday:

liquornspice:

gold-torques-of-ulaid:

The first picture is of my great great grandfather, Baldwin Olson. He collected Native American relics, such as arrow heads, ceremonial pipes, axes, etc that he found on the farm he lived on, in Breckenridge, Minnesota. My grandfather told me that when he was a kid, he’d wander around on the farm, and find arrowheads. He’d give the arrowheads to Baldwin, and for each arrowhead he found, he’d receive 50 cents for it. I always thought that was pretty cool.

At some point, Baldwin (or someone else who lived on that farm) found a Native American skull, that you see sitting on the shelf in the first picture, and surrounded in the trinkets in the second picture. When Baldwin died, his family donated the skull and other relics to a museum in Minnesota, because they had no use for those things. The skull wasn’t in the museum for long before a group of Native Americans found it to be offensive. The skull was removed from the museum, and given back to the Olsons. It has been in my family for about 60 or 70 years now, maybe longer than that.

The skull now sits in a glass cabinet in my aunts room, beside her bed, which you can see in the second picture.

Um. I almost started crying when I saw/read this. And I kind of want to throw up. This is genocide, everyone. White people keeping body parts as family heirlooms. Do y’all not have any sense of morality? Right from wrong? Is your family that devoid of any kind of empathy for people? For fucking, fellow human beings, that you would keep a person’s skull as a keepsake? Jesus fucking christ, this is horrific.

And then you decide to post it on the internet like…oh, by the way! Fun fact!

Just…further degradation of this PERSON. Someone’s FAMILY MEMBER.

I can’t.

Co-signing everything liquornspice said. Sweet fuck, but this is one of the most atrocious, unacceptable, evil things I’ve ever heard of.

speechless.

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01/15/12