Comments on: Anachronism and American Indians

By: Culturally Appropriating Native Americans: A “Hands-on Approach to History” » Sociological Images

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:02:33 +0000

[...] costumes, defining “Indian art”, “my skin is dark but my heart is white“, anachronistic images of Native Americans, “My Indian name is…“, the sports mascot Chief Illini, Playmobil’s Native [...]

By: What Counts as “Indian Art?” at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:01:33 +0000

[...] For more evidence that Indians are represented, and expected to represent themselves, anachronistically, see this post. [...]

By: Sociological Images » Representing Multiculturalism

Sociological Images » Representing Multiculturalism — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:01:16 +0000

[...] First, as Angry Asian Man asks, why is the Asian child in a rice paddy hat? This anachronistic representation reminds me of what we do to American Indians all the time. [...]

By: Sociological Images » What Counts As “Indian Art”?

Sociological Images » What Counts As “Indian Art”? — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:30:47 +0000

[...] evidence that Indians are represented, and expected to represent themself, anachronistically, see this post. tags: art, cultural imperialism/(neo)colonialism, history, modern/primitive, [...]

By: WHY I HATE EVERYTHING | the Hathor Legacy

WHY I HATE EVERYTHING | the Hathor Legacy — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:23:49 +0000

[...] more of her thought-provoking post here. Racialicious picked up the post here, where there’s an interesting conversation going on [...]

By: Anachronism and American Indians at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:00:34 +0000

[...] by Guest Contributor Lisa, originally published at Sociological Images [...]

By: T B

T B — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:39:46 +0000

I don’t know what the status of native Americans in the U.S. is, but here in Canada ties to native heritage (of some sort) are linked to land rights and state benefits for ‘authentic natives’ (who often live in deplorable poverty). Those land rights and benefits (which I definitely don’t mean to criticize) entail ties to a pre-modern past — to an extent — if only more implicitly. That’s the basic point that I’m making here.

By: gwen

gwen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:45:31 +0000

There’s also the issue of L.A. and San Francisco actually having large American Indian populations, due to being destination sites for people being relocated by the government during the 50s Termination program. And San Francisco was the location of many protests by the American Indian Movement, most famously the occupation of Alcatraz by a group calling itself Indians of All Tribes. So there are people with American Indian heritage all over L.A. and San Francisco, and you might think that the history of AIM in the region would bring more attention to the population there…but no one thinks of urban areas when they think about the lives of American Indians