http://thisisauthentic.com/2014/10/monday-monday-on-tuesday-again-or-more-links-to-help-get-you-through-halloween/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:59:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://thisisauthentic.com/2014/10/monday-monday-on-tuesday-again-or-more-links-to-help-get-you-through-halloween/#comment-113 Brooke Williams Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:14:17 +0000 http://thisisauthentic.com/?p=7907#comment-113 Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Emily. As an American women whose family hails from both Native American (Yemasee in South Carolina) and African origins, I am very sensitive to your viewpoint and agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of that costume company’s ignorant description of an entire culture. That said, I don’t think that it is wrong for kids to dress up as Native people of any kind, be they North American, Australian, Kenyan, Indian or Japanese, as long as they have an age appropriate understanding of who they are pretending to be. In fact, I’d rather they begin to try to walk in the shoes of other, actual cultures and people than dress as Cinderella or the cowboy from Toy Story. Just something for us parents to think about as we try to raise conscious and respectful human beings.

]]> http://thisisauthentic.com/2014/10/monday-monday-on-tuesday-again-or-more-links-to-help-get-you-through-halloween/#comment-112 Emily Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:52:46 +0000 http://thisisauthentic.com/?p=7907#comment-112 Please read this article before deciding to be a “Native American” for Halloween. http://nativeappropriations.com/2012/10/so-you-wanna-be-an-indian-for-halloween.html

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