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• kevin alexanderman

  So, she is celebrating their culture and its influence in contemporary society.

  That’s what you said, right?

• Aud

  How is she celebrating Native American culture? By wearing their traditional draping as a costume (in order to entertain)? A costume…a mockery. Synthetic feathers, smeared lipstick as “war paint,” etc. This isn’t a distinct culture, it’s still thriving, and to the people who are ethnically descended and whether or not they continue to practice their cultural traditions in various ways (and here in Virginia, it still is), it’s scandalous. She looks dumb, uneducated, and uncaring to me.

• Logical

  Tipical overreaction from the exterminators of the natives

• Anonymous

  Celebrating who’s culture? I’m Native American and my people don’t look a thing like that.

• itsii

  I have been NAI my entire life, reservation grown and yet I have never in my 40 years worn such cheesy looking garb! I (and everyone I know) wear typical clothes, jeans, pants, t shirts the same as everyone else. I do wear tradition dress for ceremonies/events on the rez or the like. But I have never ever worn paper feathers!

• http://www.facebook.com/tsakashewai Kaya-WaKanda Tsakshewai Wachiw

  I found it sickning in our society, we feel that making a mocky of another cultrue is acceptable. Let me education you Miss Charlotte Casiraghi.

  As Native American women from the Ojibwa and the Seminole tribes I want you to know that your choice to wear such an outfit will and has offened so many Native American people. You have to understand that we are the only race that walks this earth and society feel their no wrong in dressing as an “Indain”, as many people put it, But we have been walking on this earth for many generations as a member of Native american tribe and as women I can tell some information. First my heritage is filled with many ceremonies and right of passge from a little girl into womenhood. We taught to respected all people – our 4 direction represent that, we are taught to respected our elders, the earth and all living creations. We learn from our elders man and women in balence we have honor for all we do as long as we as a Nation do it with blessing of our creator and our elders, family. Some of us are on a road called the “Redroad of Life” in which that another ceremonie only some go in that directions its a hard road to fellow.

  I am so tried of people like yourself in Public eye wearing an outfit that so Offensive too all Native American tribes in United State and in Canada too. Take Note I know that a lot of Native American items have been taken and mainstream in what we call fashion, But that dose not make it right. Have a soul we still Live we are not like the dinosaurs. Educate yourself find out more about Native Americans go to a Pow Wow and understand we are alive.

• http://www.facebook.com/tsakashewai Kaya-WaKanda Tsakshewai Wachiw

  That because you have no ideal what it is to be NAtive American in this society.

• PC_police

  yeah,big deal,this really affects NA.this is the biggest problem in the world ,generally-
  offending peoples feelings.we must stop this horrible practice of
  hurting someones feelings.and since everything can be in some way
  racist, dont worry about being too rational when you explain to
  authorities why the man who told you to go f**k yourself is a scary
  racist and he must be whipped.no apologizing ,no,no-whipping (use
  wild,wild west whip replica,thats not racist). and cash of course.loads of cash will fix broken hearts and take away the crocodile tears of your face.

• Jen

  Yet it’s okay for the person to dress up a a cowboy? They also used synthetic everything. And you might not want to tell a lot of people that the cowboy culture is irrelevant and unpracticed. I’m pretty sure they would disagree with you.

  That’s BS.

  And there are doctor costumes. Is a doctor costume a mockery to you? I don’t get it.

• Ben

  Typical reaction from someone who lacks simple spelling skills and doesn’t realize that it was this generation’s ancient ancestors who, as you eloquently stated, are the “exterminators (sic) of the natives.”

• Ben

  Nobody is saying that is what you wear now. Sorry if Native American costumes offend you, but they’re a timepiece costume, just like a 40s or 50s outfit. People dress up with the intention of looking like a Native American from the early pre-colonial days. (No matter how much of a spin or lack of authenticity they carry in their costumes.)

• Aud

  Cowboys are not an ethnicity, nor are they a social class, at least in the sense I’m talking about (which I think it fairly obvious). A lot of ranchers’ apparel is/was used to do their job and/or keep up their lively hood. The cowboy/cowgirl is a tradition that arose from the Mexican vaquero and they helped transform American, no doubt. However, you can’t be racist against a cowboy. Cowboys weren’t massacred and enslaved. Cowboys weren’t paraded around and mocked — as the Native Americans were during the early-20th c. World Fairs, comes to mind, where they were seen as spectacles (having to wearing cheesy costumes as Ms. Casiraghi is wearing above), remnants from an old time, like items from a cabinet of curiosities, treated as second class citizens, being segregated in schools — the list goes on. And you mention dressing up as a doctor as a comparison? WTF? You’re right, you don’t get it.

• Aud

  The 40s and 50s…interesting, this is before the Civil Rights Movement. Just b/c something is a “timepiece costume” doesn’t make it ok. Blackface comes to mind as well…you consider this a timepiece costume that’s appropriate?

• http://www.facebook.com/renbeijing Retoño Enbeijing

  just a costume!! there’s no offense…