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Also. I'm not responding to any comment made at me about the above. So, yeah. Don't really expect an argument from me if you wanna come at me like several of the users have been doing to -everyone- who comments. I'm not humoring y'all.
And there is no proof that the indigenous people in the land we now call America are the smallest race per population on Earth. If you talk about individual cultural groups of Native Americans, then you might possibly have a case, but as a whole, the natives of the Americas outnumber many groups around the world, like the Enets, the Botlikhs, or the Brau.
Sure, people taking pictures like this might not realize the cultural implications of what they are doing, but to call it racist is pretty off the mark. I don't get a sense at all that this person sympathizes with the massacres of the past from this photo, or that they have some racial bias against natives. I don't think anyone could given the subject matter.
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The solution would be to stop calling this "native". This is fantasy, pure fantasy, and not identifying this as such is spreading misinformation and perpetuating a harmful stereotype. It's uncreative; beautiful hipsters playing dress-up in sacred ceremonial wear (irregardless of the authenticity of their garb) is flooding the internet and if the artist wants to extinguish the flames on their gallery they need to remove the image.
Yes, she is gorgeous. Yes headdresses are beautiful. Yes this is a beautiful, well-executed photograph. The concept itself, however, is reprehensible as a drop of piss in an ocean of cultural scavenging that needs to get over itself and try a little bit harder to put feathers into hair without mimicking war bonnets and tagging it as #native.
Now, to the artist, I think that this is a beautiful picture. My only critique is that the blur on the tree(or what I'm assuming is a tree) takes away from the picture. I would have at least cropped the pic a bit so that it takes up less of the picture.
~ Dantae, the native american irishman
...so if a Native American isn't offended, that doesn't count for anything because all the Native Americans who can't give us their opinion must be offended by default. v.v;