[ACC25063]

They knew it was a slur 70 years ago, just like they usually do now, they just didn’t care. They were just ‘playing Indian’ the same way little kids play at cowboys and Indians and think it’s great fun to pretend to be ‘savage’ or kill ‘savages’. 70 years ago, they thought we were ‘vanishing’ as a people (some whites still do), so in their own minds they could do whatever they wanted with our image. To them, to kids who played cowboys and Indians and their parents who encouraged their kids to dress up as ‘Indians’ on Halloween, we are just fantasy characters out of the past no different from pirates or vampires. That’s why we have to push for others to see us as we are, real people living in the present, push for realistic portrayals of us in movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Smoke Signals rather than characters in the past like Dances With what’s his name. That’s why we have to show them these mascots are nothing like us and give them real examples to look at like Congressman Ben Nighthorse Campbell or James Herrington, a Chickasaw astronaut.

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Name : ACC25063, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States, 

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