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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
The video was basically one giant stereotype of Native Americans. I don't find it particularly offensive, but I could tell about 15 seconds in that people were going to be bothered by it, and they have perfectly valid reasons to.
An American band making a music video pretending to be a stereotyped version of a culture that suffered a huge genocide at the hands of white Americans just isn't a particularly good idea.
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I didn't see the video, but a lot of artists seem to be doing the Native American appropriation recently... Lana wore a native head dress in Ride, and one of the boys in Marina's HTBAHB video wore a head dress.