Are we finally witnessing the death of the hipster headdress?
Cartoon can be found on http://adverbemonade.tumblr.com, and check out how many people have re-blogged it!
Earlier: But Why Can't I Wear a Hipster Headdress?
(Thanks Scott!)
Friday, April 15, 2011
But my Grandpa was 1/16th Cherokee!
Are we finally witnessing the death of the hipster headdress?
Cartoon can be found on http://adverbemonade.tumblr.com, and check out how many people have re-blogged it!
Earlier: But Why Can't I Wear a Hipster Headdress?
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We shall see after coachella....
ReplyDeleteGood one
ReplyDelete"Take the headdress OFF."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o5A0VGvnXg
Awesome! I, too, shall reblog it. Although if it had said "my great-grandmother was a Cherokee Princess" it would have been even funnier to me :)
ReplyDelete@ T. Laurel Sulfate - Thanks for linking that youtube video. Its great! :)
ReplyDeleteI had to share that on Facebook. Love it!!! I think I'll print it out and give it to my native studies teacher!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150162690568736&set=a.10150162688358736.287174.10936503735&type=1
ReplyDeleteReports from Coachella indicate it's alive and kicking.
Wait, are people really doing this? (Wearing head dresses to parties?) I don't even own one! (As we are not enrolled, we cannot possess raptor feathers. This is yet another conundrum as I strongly support protecting endangered species....)
ReplyDeleteThe 1/16 Cherokee confuses me now, after you wrote about your own ancestry... which given all the other European ancestry you have might not add up to much more than one 1/16... Where do you draw the line? And why focus SO strongly with one ancestry and identify SO strongly with that one?
ReplyDeleteHaving said all that: Of course I am against the hipster headdress...
@KD12 It's not about the blood quantum, it's a reference to the fact that a lot of the hipster headdress offenders claim Native ancestry (specifically, often, Cherokee) as a way to defend their "right" to wear the headdress. The ironic (and therefore funny) part is that Cherokees don't and never have worn headdresses, and if they had any cultural ties they would know that headdresses are sacred and not something you wear to get wasted at a party.
ReplyDeleteAs far as my own background, I write about my Native identity here, but I also am strongly tied to my other backgrounds as well. The difference is that Native identity is also about citizenship--being a citizen of a tribal nation is different than identifying as armenian/welsh/german/irish...I don't have citizenship rights in any of those nations. It's about sovereignty, nationhood, AND identity-for me anyway.
Thanks for your questions!
Okay, so I've read a few posts on this blog (and others) about how it's offensive to wear a headdress, and I now understand why. So first of all, thank you for that.
ReplyDeleteSo my question is, if you're someone who isn't of Native American descent, but you are interested in their culture and appreciate their history and traditions, how would you go about "celebrating" them without being offensive? In other words, how would you go about emulating something you find beautiful without it turning into mockery?
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