05 Dec 2017
Native Americans Back on the Warpath at Yale
Association of Native Americans at Yale, Cultural Appropriation, Hula Dancing, Shaka, Yale
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The Oldest College Daily reports that hula dancing by unauthorized persons is a problem.
The Association of Native Americans at Yale this weekend condemned Shaka, an all-female Polynesian dance group, for appropriating Hawaiian and Tahitian culture and demanded that the group disband.
In a letter posted to its Facebook page Saturday afternoon, ANAAY condemned Shaka for “sexualizing and homogenizing Native [American] peoples, misrepresenting and erasing histories and political realities, and attempting to depoliticize inherently political culture and communities under colonial subjugation.â€
If shimmying in a grass skirt is “cultural appropriation,” how come spouting Marxist BS isn’t?