Indians upset that a guy wants to build a Teepee Hotel and squealing about Cultural Appropriation…
Indian guy in the picture they show…Wearing a polo shirt. Did he ride his horse to the interview? Is HE living in a Teepee with no electricity, no running water, gets his medical care from the Medince Man? No? Then STFU.
Because I KNOW who invented electricity, the flush toilet (Thomas Crapper, that always makes me chuckle…)… and penicillin and it wasn’t an Indian.
There is no such thing as cultural appropriation in the United States. We are a melting pot of cultures and ideas. We all are a melange of what everybody brought with them. America is the only country in the world like this. Ironically it is the only country in the world where people try to play the cultural appropriation card. Look at all of the different cultural influences on everything from clothing to the food we eat every day all day long.
LOL. I bet the Vikings and other northern Europeans used similar structures before the first man crossed the Bering Strait.
Some people have too much time to worry about too much shit. Used to be such names were done to recognize and pay tribute to other cultures. This is why the Boy Scouts were named after Scouts. We so respected the skills of native trackers that we adopted the word.
Mostly cone shaped inside with white walls, like sleeping in a flash light reflector. VCR clock(ca. 1999) and street/moonlight coming through the curtains on the door illuminated the entire room to the point I kept waking up thinking dawn had arrived.
I found myself thinking “thats cool, not too far away, maybe my wife and I will do a weekend getaway”
Then I read the history page “cultural theft” etc etc etc.
I think I will write the Sioux tribal presidents and tell them they better tear down the houses on the rez because they stole the design from my people.
That’s my position. If they want to be stupid about it, then lets get plain idiot. They can protest people sleeping in a Teepee shaped hotel by smoke signal. Fair is fair.
Go look at the patents for the Airplane, the telephone, computer, cell phone, light bulb, flushing toilet, internal combustion engine, machine gun, blue jeans, air conditioner, television, radio, penicillin, artificial heart valve, microwave…It’s a long damn list and that’s not a tenth of it…
Or, they can stop being assholes when someone braids their hair a certain way, when kids dress up for Thanksgiving or Halloween or their parents have tacos for their Mega Bowl party.
Okay fine, they can have their culture. But they can’t live in a western style house, drive cars, or eat anything but their own indigenous food. I’m tired of them appropriating our proud culture and traditions.
Oh yea, and they can only wear moccasins and buckskin loincloths. None of them fancy sneakers. Them’s only for white people now.:lol:
