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Very beautiful shot! 
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Don't listen to the hateful comments. This is incredible. 
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I love this photo! 
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yes there is... but i didnt upload here at DA... due to racist issue i got .. (check the previous comments)
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The colors in your photos are just so perfect... I love this!
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Oh, Brendita you poor thing. I'm so sorry, I wish someone had been able to warn you of what would happen if you did this shoot and posted it online. The Native American clothing thing is a VERY, VERY hot button right now and it never ends well. Regardless of intentions or how an image is conceptually shot and shown to the world....nine out of ten people will flip out and become enraged on behalf of a heritage they don't even have.
Also. I'm not responding to any comment made at me about the above. So, yeah. Don't really expect an argument from me if you wanna come at me like several of the users have been doing to -everyone- who comments. I'm not humoring y'all.
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No, one out of 10 people will be a total dick on a beautiful photo.
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maybe 9 out of 10 people who speak up about the oppression of native people aren't native because genocide made indigenous americans the smallest racial population on earth 
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None of the genocide has anything to do with this person wearing the headdress. It's not like she made it from the scalps of the native people she mutilated.
And there is no proof that the indigenous people in the land we now call America are the smallest race per population on Earth. If you talk about individual cultural groups of Native Americans, then you might possibly have a case, but as a whole, the natives of the Americas outnumber many groups around the world, like the Enets, the Botlikhs, or the Brau.
Sure, people taking pictures like this might not realize the cultural implications of what they are doing, but to call it racist is pretty off the mark. I don't get a sense at all that this person sympathizes with the massacres of the past from this photo, or that they have some racial bias against natives. I don't think anyone could given the subject matter.
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Oh y'all...for the love of everything. Can we not do the 'Native American' stereotype. I just wanna barf from all the girls in warbonnets I see.
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Oh my goodness, not women in a feathered headdress!
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It is getting quite repetitious isn't it?
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It is. At least no one is claiming heritage though (because they like to claim my tribe and it's a bit embarrassing for both of us when I have to explain we don't even use warbonnets).
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IN LOOOOOVVVEEE with this image!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dude, this is REALLY racist i suggest you go on this-is-not-native.tumblr.com
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It's not racist, the photographer and model didn't go 'fuck those stupid 'Injuns'!', they probably just didn't think about the implications, so it's just inconsiderate and inappropriate.
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seeing white chicks wearing native warbonnets isn't cool.
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Stop trolling this girl, instead you should bug the British, Spanish and Italian imperials.
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who's trolling the girl by pointing out facts? In fact the only person I've been seeing troll is you, with you're stupid comments. If you're going to post something on a public forum, expect backlash, don't like it? Take it off- simple as that.
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Can I just say how relieved I am that so many people are calling this out? Being a decent human being is spreading.
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Thing is, pointing out that someone is doing something racist isn't essentially calling that person racist. It's generally understood by those who are fighting this battle for native culture that it's more an issue of non-awareness than outright racism. Where it becomes outright racism is when people are told that this sort of imagery (for the sake of objectifying native women as beautiful mystical animals) is harmful.. and then they continue to unapologetically do it and defend it.
The solution would be to stop calling this "native". This is fantasy, pure fantasy, and not identifying this as such is spreading misinformation and perpetuating a harmful stereotype. It's uncreative; beautiful hipsters playing dress-up in sacred ceremonial wear (irregardless of the authenticity of their garb) is flooding the internet and if the artist wants to extinguish the flames on their gallery they need to remove the image.
Yes, she is gorgeous. Yes headdresses are beautiful. Yes this is a beautiful, well-executed photograph. The concept itself, however, is reprehensible as a drop of piss in an ocean of cultural scavenging that needs to get over itself and try a little bit harder to put feathers into hair without mimicking war bonnets and tagging it as #native.
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racist art isn't worth creating much less defending. this is racist and if you respect native americans you should delete these images and stop it.
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I'm native and I'd just like to tell all you trolls to quit harrasing people like this, I think this is beautiful and there is nothing wrong with it. Native Americans were not the only ones to wear feathered head dresses such as this and being offended by the use of one is the equivalent of an irish person being offended by non-irish people wearing green on St. Patrick's day and I am also Irish. I come from a very important Blackfoot chieftan who's daughter marriaed an irishman... the genes of Europeans such as light skin, hair and eyes are more dominant than those of natives, not one of my great-grandmother's children resembled her. On top of all of that this is a COMMERCIAL peice... in no way shape of form does it claim that the model is native or that she is portraying a native.
Now, to the artist, I think that this is a beautiful picture. My only critique is that the blur on the tree(or what I'm assuming is a tree) takes away from the picture. I would have at least cropped the pic a bit so that it takes up less of the picture.
~ Dantae, the native american irishman
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I'm glad that you decided to share your view, but I love the way that the moment an actual Native American makes a comment like "This doesn't offend me", everyone suddenly goes "Well you can't speak for ALL Native Americans!"
...so if a Native American isn't offended, that doesn't count for anything because all the Native Americans who can't give us their opinion must be offended by default. v.v;
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Thank you. This confrontation actually really stressed me out. I wish that people could just get along without all this stupidity.
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