Big Chief, Black Hawk | Appreciation, Not Appropriation
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What is the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation?
What is the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation? Dr. Jeffery Darensbourg (Atakapa-Ishak) explains, and provides a reasoning behind why the suits of Mardi Gras Indians, who are Black New Orleanians, are influenced by their own Indigenous and African ancestry.
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Big Chief, Black Hawk | Appreciation, Not Appropriation
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What is the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation? Dr. Jeffery Darensbourg (Atakapa-Ishak) explains, and provides a reasoning behind why the suits of Mardi Gras Indians, who are Black New Orleanians, are influenced by their own Indigenous and African ancestry.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipI think one thing that all people should appreciate is how annoyed and disgusted native people get when anyone dresses like us for any reason.
Period, ever.
Now, motivations for that are definitely very person to person, as motivations to doing anything.
But in general, native people are utterly disgusted when anyone ever dresses like us.
And that's because there's such a history of mockery and dressing like us, such a history of white portrayals of us.
I think with Mardi Gras Indians, many of them are in fact of indigenous ancestry, and if that is a way of expressing the person's indigenous ancestry, I think that's a different interpretation from, say, a white person dressing up in native clothing.
Also, the outfits have a native element, but they're also obviously influenced by African clothing in a way that's not just native clothing.
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