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"Animated children's show?" I watched that as an adult, thank you very much.
I watched it as an animated child as an adult, thank you
Why wouldn't you just hire a contract worker who has native American ancestry to do the artwork? If the contractor gets it wrong you can just wash your hands of it saying you took steps to ensure you had a representative of the native American community to do the work and that's what they chose.
I see you’ve read the Star Trek guide: Hakoochymoia: Vet Your Cultural Consultants Before Letting Them Contribute To A Bunch of Episodes.
Confused, I did some searching.
This meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrekmemes/comments/13xjob9/i_am_finally_watching_voyager_for_real_and/
Lead to this post: https://www.cracked.com/article_33719_star-trek-voyager-got-scammed-by-a-native-american-imposter.html
Okay that is kinda funny.
Thank you for those links. That is incredibly!
If the truth came out years after Voyager, that would have been a bit of an embarrassment for the folks behind the show. Here's the really weird part of this story, though: The big exposé on Jackie Marks came a decade before the show debuted. First an Assiniboine-Sioux researcher looked into the guy's claims and debunked them, and then the Washington Post covered the story, and the National Congress of American Indians kicked him out. Jamake responded by walking back some claims initially, but later claiming that he was suffering discrimination for being adopted or being mixed race.
In fact, even when he died in 2001, the press gave him obituaries that took him at his word. One paper called him "an award-winning American Indian writer" and declared the following, falsely: "Mr. Highwater was born to an illiterate mother, who was a Blackfoot, and a Cherokee father, who was a rodeo rider and stuntman. The impoverished parents soon deposited the boy in an orphanage." Which newspaper was that? Oh, just the Washington Post, the same one who'd broken the news of his fraud 17 years before.
Holy shit. Is everyone in this country just woefully inept?
Honestly reminds me of the South African man at Mandela's funeral doing the sign language interpretation... but didn't know sign language.
Because you want to pander to people who care, while still being slime yourself. See Rick Berman and Chakotay
But I am so far from the bones of my people
That would take a bare minimum of effort.
I think it would be hilarious if they did try and the person they hired trolled them.
The southern water tribe was almost completely genocided by the fire nation, so I can understand their confusion of not being able to tell an animated fictional show from real indigenous people that actually got worse treatment, and that didn’t have any water bending abilities to defend themselves.
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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