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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7852323" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Except none of this is really true. The full warbonnet with different meanings for each feather awarded to warriors who had earned them was a feature of only a few native American nations, mostly limited to the upper great plains. But the warbonnet as a style of fancy dress has long been appropriated by tribes that never historically wore it to dress up for the tourists, or for fun, and is now it's own style and it's own thing utterly divorced from pre-contact culture. For most native Americans, putting on one of these things is just as much being in a costume as anyone else. You honestly think every Native American in a powwow with their fancy dress of multicolored feathers comes from a tribe that historically dressed like that or more to the point, actually has counted coup on and/or killed the tribes enemies and is carefully counting every feather?</p><p></p><p>Do you think the tribal elders are going around knocking the headdresses of the boys and girls going, "You didn't earn the right to wear that. Now go back to grinding corn with the other women"? No, they are celebrating themselves as part of a living dynamic culture, and the old rules - which probably never applied in their nation in the first place - aren't in force. It is in fact a costume worn for amusement, and they are playing dress up.</p><p></p><p>Or do you actually think that this the sort of stuff that people on a reservation spend most of their time worrying about?</p><p></p><p>You can construct an argument for not dressing up in costume like a Native American that can't easily be knocked down, but it isn't that one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7852323, member: 4937"] Except none of this is really true. The full warbonnet with different meanings for each feather awarded to warriors who had earned them was a feature of only a few native American nations, mostly limited to the upper great plains. But the warbonnet as a style of fancy dress has long been appropriated by tribes that never historically wore it to dress up for the tourists, or for fun, and is now it's own style and it's own thing utterly divorced from pre-contact culture. For most native Americans, putting on one of these things is just as much being in a costume as anyone else. You honestly think every Native American in a powwow with their fancy dress of multicolored feathers comes from a tribe that historically dressed like that or more to the point, actually has counted coup on and/or killed the tribes enemies and is carefully counting every feather? Do you think the tribal elders are going around knocking the headdresses of the boys and girls going, "You didn't earn the right to wear that. Now go back to grinding corn with the other women"? No, they are celebrating themselves as part of a living dynamic culture, and the old rules - which probably never applied in their nation in the first place - aren't in force. It is in fact a costume worn for amusement, and they are playing dress up. Or do you actually think that this the sort of stuff that people on a reservation spend most of their time worrying about? You can construct an argument for not dressing up in costume like a Native American that can't easily be knocked down, but it isn't that one. [/QUOTE]
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