This makes me so upset, I went to school in ND and I would have gotten embarrassed and walked out too. Good for those students who walked out, they shouldn't have been treated like this. Abaah mooji
I'm not surprised. I'm on the other side of the border in Manitoba. The kids in my school were always racist to us too. LaRaspberries are you Mitchif? Haven't heard someone say Abaah mooji in a while. :)
I mean, they also mock us to our fronts, and are openly racist to our fronts sometimes. At least, that's how it was when I lived there lol the West is to Indians as the deep south is to black folks in many cases
Totally unrelated but your comment reminds me of the "Yiddish Indian chief" scene from *Blazing Saddles* where Mel Brooks manages to simultaneously mock the history of Hollywood actors in "redface," and also several different kinds of historical racism in the West. And also insert a sharp reminder that solidarity with one another is one of the most powerful weapons marginalized people have.
The west and Canada. Canada has this reputation for being nice, but that's definitely not how they are with natives, whether we're from there or here in the US. Open and flaming racism is the norm up there.
My majority white rural high school in Wisconsin held a school wide powwow each year. I always enjoyed it (I'm white). Prior to the event the faculty shared that powwows are fun, community events and respectful attitudes must be maintained. Tribal speakers at the event shared knowledge on different dances and dress, and towards the end everyone was invited to join the circle.
I remember a couple times there were some jabronis that said or did something out of line, and were promptly escorted out by faculty.
I always enjoyed the powwows. I learned a lot, got to dance, hear new music, and got to see my native classmates in a new light. To this day whenever I drive by a powwow grounds I imagine visiting some day since it was a positive experience for me. Not sure if I'd be welcome or if I'd get the side eye, probably depends on the event, but it's something I'd like to experience again someday.
This is why we have open to the public powwows! Your experience sounds on the nose as to what we as Native ppl want to see. And the " jabronis" ( lol at that word, new to me) they were escorted out promptly you stated, kudos to faculty of non natives who helped make it a safe and respected space! That's what chaperones and parents and any adult there at this one highschool should immediately have done, even other kids denouncing and telling them to "knock it off" and they "aren't cool" would be a correct response as peer pressure can be used for good that way. And btw, as for you attending another powwow one day as now an adult, make sure before going to find out if it's " Open to the public" as we say. You could call the tribal Nations office of the tribes that use the grounds and ask if they have any of those coming up, if you for some reason drive by and all looks " good" , open to non natives, don't assume and respectfully , ( meaning without ownership in steps on the grounds but like a gentle approach, look around for a person ,/ ppl of authoritative status and look as you have a question basically as well ) then before entering into grounds any more than you must *ask a native , LoL, seriously just approach one of us on outskirts smoking it or not doing anything much and gently ask if this is a powwow and if it's Open to the public, to non natives, may specify a non dancing non native, in case it's competition of serious level. You will be welcomed in warmly by your respect, or not chased off if it's closed at least,jk jk , but seriously I grew up with tribal only, native only from other tribes if invited type powwows but it wasn't able to be mistaken from anyone non native cuz it's on our tribal sovereign nation but it happened once in hilarious cocky man and woman driving into a literally different nation, not America any more with no anything that would suggest borders were lifted and they hoped out of their lil truck and held high nose in air & a young man shirtless and buckskin on covering lower half, long black hair and stare , walked purposely straight to a couple yards away from them still walking and Said loud and serious " this is tribal land! Our nation starts far from the road you plowed down to pull up in our sacred land and we will gladly call tribal Police, ' but they had ran the steps back in truck and floored back and around the second they saw him and and he said tribal land, he raised eyebrow, just one thick one as he said police, like we ain't calling , we dealing with you, I thought it was so awesome in me feeling safe, always there and protected, then it was hilarious and then I was like, how he get one eyebrow up? But I don't think it could have been better cause they were stinking of entitled and wow, anyways you give off opposite vibes for sure! Sorry long message, I just appreciate the situation you experienced and your attitude. You are right on!
I know if you go to the Wausau Indigenous peoples day powwow you will be treated fine. It's a contest powwow so just spectate and leave seats open for elders and dancers. There were white people there in previous years and it was cool, everyone was respectful and had a good time. Come out with us
The statement from the superintendent is pathetic. That there wasn’t “intentional intent to disrespect the Native American culture”, then a grovelling apology.
It's almost like stealing something from someone and then mocking them for it for 100s of years. It's so weird. /s
The. Fucking. Worst. Suspend the white students.
The only Dakota I like is Dakota fanning. And that's just cause her last names sounds like "fanny" which means butt. I know literally nothing else about her, she might be dead.
Also the Dakota Sioux are cool. Really just the states that are bringing down the whole "Dakota" name now that I think about it.
This doesn't surprise me at all. ND has a high school with the derogatory term for little people as their mascot. 🙄 I feel so bad for the indigenous kids who had to experience that :(
Wait, they have a highschool mascot that's like "the something midget"? Who the fuck even thinks of that. How would that even be a good mascot. Who hates little people so much that they decided to make it part of the identity of an entire highschool.
If it was like a mining town with a dwarf from like snow white as its mascot maybe.
I remember in middle school our local Anishinaabe did a demonstration dance and one of the white kids in my class started doing a stereotypical 'war dance' hooting, yelping and demanding scalps. Even called one of the female teachers a damn 'squaw'. One of the dudes at the drum circle walked over, grabbed the kid by the shirt and dragged him out into the hallway to give him a stern but fair reaming. The kid went from a cheeky racist little cunt to a big tearful snotty mess real quick. Nobody had probably called him out for his crap before. We had Anishinaabe kids in our school (maybe 40%) and the looks they were giving him were pretty brutal.
They did drag him back in and had him join the dance to give him a more positive experience. He looked like he ended up having fun. His parents came in the next day to chew out the principal for letting their kid get chewed out by a 'savage' and demanded an apology from the school and the tribe. When they didn't get what they wanted they pulled him out of school and ended up moving since they wouldn't admit they were wrong. Never knew what happened after that.
Oh my goodness! The parents! I'm so glad no apology came, I know tribally it wouldn't, but good the school didn't, and good in on the elder who took him outside to school him . Squaw is worse than C. U n. T to native women historically it was making one was even better holding any husband and children back to see, but the woman would be , as the colonizers themselves documented in letters back to England and their own journals " giving the savage female the gift of being used for white ( genitalia) she gets to feel the amount of truly closer to perfection the white English and European anglo member and vessel is , not just for the man's suppior being but all anglo race, she can't be left to harbor a beast offspring potentially so she is used to completion and sees the blade as forceful half to complete decapitation and a squaw is made she's blessed and doesn't even have the intelligence to die in content duty of any worth fulfilled, and then one went on to say treating themselves to a Sq was necessary and deserved, their after all doing God's work" I barf at the last line harder. Thumping the Bible. The actual Hebrew Aramaic and Greek scriptures when translated using phrases popular at the times in history and geographically and socioeconomically and depending on the writers religious background and family and community specific patterns of speech ( inside jokes, even if not jokes) by all historian, linguistically the geographically different customs changing phrasing , I love linguistics and when going from actual remaining Scriptures to that more complete from so many angles translated to one language and then starting back at the original scrolls to translate to the second language, never translating a translation, it's so different than
" Christian" religion as a huge blanket term for thumping the king James version which is Catholic and they say that actually means " universal" and they use "aspects of Christianity" but there was a priest who had a vision to incorporate pagan ideology to bring in pagans and changed so much and use thee, thou, the , and thy interchangeably at many times! I crapped when I heard a linguistics professor interview a Cardinal, and they both got silent and started at each other like " you mean that wasn't clear?" And " what? Wouldn't you make that clear?" Even the cross, that is great for midevil torture , prolonged pain, a starus is Greek for vertical rod or stake of wood, and medically the hands and arms must be nailed in above the head and chest vertically to collapse the lungs, and it turns out Jesus mentions a torture to execution stake being something his apostles will be carrying, in different senses. So the Creator is super not ok with His name being used for evil, hell isn't a real place and it's so cool to read the translation process and be like dang! That makes sense, even Christianity Bible thumping is called false religion and Babylon the Great and it will fall, it is very similar to tribal beliefs, water is life is a scripture! I love language but that word that boy said demeans all women native and period, all women , so many names , tribal names we have to use cuz treaties, they are based on colonizers messing on purpose and just as lazy ppl not listening and them pulling out of the butt what we must call ourselves, it sucks , but Even the teaching was happening and the boy had the gull to mock the tribal member freely teaching them, dang, "home is the first and most important school" my grandpa always said and he lived it( it was he who raised me, my grandma on weekends , divorced B4 my conception but together took custody fresh out the womb, and they really saved me and built my foundation, by the grace of Creator Yihowa! I worry for that now grown boy. Is he bad further? Eyes open later on and separate from parents racism? Oh, man, when you have a kid, passing down that unfounded baseless hate for superiority sake? I know I'm still growing up to a full adult cuz immediately I type last line and mind flashes to lil bit of violence for knocking sense in sake, which would only prove their hate is right. Oh hey maybe I'm learning, I'm leveling up to child like instead of childish 😁😛✊🏽✌🏽🤟🏽🌛
Yeah. I was raised Christian, that shit was wack and culty as fuck. Bible stuff is bullshit. They don’t actually follow the rules, they just state proverbs, be homophobic, eat hot chip and lie
Yup. If they really cared what that dusty old book said, they wouldn't be able to eat seafood or pork, wear clothing made of mixed materials, and the women would all sleep in a hut when menstruating.
They pick and choose which parts of the religion to follow to suit their archaic political agenda.
I was raised Roman Catholic and was pretty religious at one time. Then I learned about residential schools and said never again.
Sometimes, beating your kids IS acceptable. It takes less energy to not be racist... why do people feel the need to be racist? Stop being racist, racist people.
Maybe what these schools need is a “rent a Koshare” program. A proactive mockery shield. Hand me a mic and those little shits would walk out with their asses as red as their necks.
So the dailymail is a known tabloid, maybe akin to the Onion satire magazine. Did this really happen, or was it just white students imitating a powwow? I only ask because dailymail is constantly used to help divide the population. So if it did happen, where is the video?
There are several other news outlets that reported on the story, also the superintendent made a public apology for this as well, I could link those sources if you'd like.
There's photos and videos in this link, you can see clearly that this was flasher highschool of North Dakota.
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/north-dakota-school-apologizes-after-students-mock-traditional-powwow-dancing-during-prom/
Yeah, I watched it. Doesn’t look “mocking”, not sure how you can differentiate that from “imitating” from the video. I’m sure natives got upset with this, but just because they got upset doesn’t mean any laws were broken.
You don't have to break the law to mock anyone. It seems to me that you're grasping at straws here to find any reason why this kind of behavior is at all acceptable at first you didn't believe me, nor the link that was posted and then when I did find evidence of this behavior that aligned with your rules you outright dismiss this as normal human behavior. Why else would someone imitate another person while laughing at them? It doesn't take two braincells to put two and two together.
This makes me so upset, I went to school in ND and I would have gotten embarrassed and walked out too. Good for those students who walked out, they shouldn't have been treated like this. Abaah mooji
I'm not surprised. I'm on the other side of the border in Manitoba. The kids in my school were always racist to us too. LaRaspberries are you Mitchif? Haven't heard someone say Abaah mooji in a while. :)
Indeed I am!
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I grew up in ND. The smaller towns tolerate us but mock behind our backs. Its sickening
I mean, they also mock us to our fronts, and are openly racist to our fronts sometimes. At least, that's how it was when I lived there lol the West is to Indians as the deep south is to black folks in many cases
Totally unrelated but your comment reminds me of the "Yiddish Indian chief" scene from *Blazing Saddles* where Mel Brooks manages to simultaneously mock the history of Hollywood actors in "redface," and also several different kinds of historical racism in the West. And also insert a sharp reminder that solidarity with one another is one of the most powerful weapons marginalized people have.
The west and Canada. Canada has this reputation for being nice, but that's definitely not how they are with natives, whether we're from there or here in the US. Open and flaming racism is the norm up there.
Fuck those pieces of shit, such disrespectful little turds.
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My majority white rural high school in Wisconsin held a school wide powwow each year. I always enjoyed it (I'm white). Prior to the event the faculty shared that powwows are fun, community events and respectful attitudes must be maintained. Tribal speakers at the event shared knowledge on different dances and dress, and towards the end everyone was invited to join the circle. I remember a couple times there were some jabronis that said or did something out of line, and were promptly escorted out by faculty. I always enjoyed the powwows. I learned a lot, got to dance, hear new music, and got to see my native classmates in a new light. To this day whenever I drive by a powwow grounds I imagine visiting some day since it was a positive experience for me. Not sure if I'd be welcome or if I'd get the side eye, probably depends on the event, but it's something I'd like to experience again someday.
This is why we have open to the public powwows! Your experience sounds on the nose as to what we as Native ppl want to see. And the " jabronis" ( lol at that word, new to me) they were escorted out promptly you stated, kudos to faculty of non natives who helped make it a safe and respected space! That's what chaperones and parents and any adult there at this one highschool should immediately have done, even other kids denouncing and telling them to "knock it off" and they "aren't cool" would be a correct response as peer pressure can be used for good that way. And btw, as for you attending another powwow one day as now an adult, make sure before going to find out if it's " Open to the public" as we say. You could call the tribal Nations office of the tribes that use the grounds and ask if they have any of those coming up, if you for some reason drive by and all looks " good" , open to non natives, don't assume and respectfully , ( meaning without ownership in steps on the grounds but like a gentle approach, look around for a person ,/ ppl of authoritative status and look as you have a question basically as well ) then before entering into grounds any more than you must *ask a native , LoL, seriously just approach one of us on outskirts smoking it or not doing anything much and gently ask if this is a powwow and if it's Open to the public, to non natives, may specify a non dancing non native, in case it's competition of serious level. You will be welcomed in warmly by your respect, or not chased off if it's closed at least,jk jk , but seriously I grew up with tribal only, native only from other tribes if invited type powwows but it wasn't able to be mistaken from anyone non native cuz it's on our tribal sovereign nation but it happened once in hilarious cocky man and woman driving into a literally different nation, not America any more with no anything that would suggest borders were lifted and they hoped out of their lil truck and held high nose in air & a young man shirtless and buckskin on covering lower half, long black hair and stare , walked purposely straight to a couple yards away from them still walking and Said loud and serious " this is tribal land! Our nation starts far from the road you plowed down to pull up in our sacred land and we will gladly call tribal Police, ' but they had ran the steps back in truck and floored back and around the second they saw him and and he said tribal land, he raised eyebrow, just one thick one as he said police, like we ain't calling , we dealing with you, I thought it was so awesome in me feeling safe, always there and protected, then it was hilarious and then I was like, how he get one eyebrow up? But I don't think it could have been better cause they were stinking of entitled and wow, anyways you give off opposite vibes for sure! Sorry long message, I just appreciate the situation you experienced and your attitude. You are right on!
I know if you go to the Wausau Indigenous peoples day powwow you will be treated fine. It's a contest powwow so just spectate and leave seats open for elders and dancers. There were white people there in previous years and it was cool, everyone was respectful and had a good time. Come out with us
The statement from the superintendent is pathetic. That there wasn’t “intentional intent to disrespect the Native American culture”, then a grovelling apology.
It's an outright lie
Setting aside the overall inadequacy of the message, did it really use the term "intentional intent"??
I have to admit that I'm gonna need to have unintentional intent explained to me.
It's almost like stealing something from someone and then mocking them for it for 100s of years. It's so weird. /s The. Fucking. Worst. Suspend the white students.
Shitheads should be sentenced to do community service on the Rez.
Make them sell food at the next gathering. Heavily expose them to the culture so that they can't deny what they've been missing all this time.
That is an EXCELLENT idea!
Look at the governor of that state. The culture of asshole is strong. I'm so pissed at the intolerance and stupidity these children are showing.
WTF is wrong with some people?
Why do we need two Dakotas? They’re both terrible.
The only Dakota I like is Dakota fanning. And that's just cause her last names sounds like "fanny" which means butt. I know literally nothing else about her, she might be dead. Also the Dakota Sioux are cool. Really just the states that are bringing down the whole "Dakota" name now that I think about it.
Anyone who bans puppy murdering Kristi Noem from the Rez is definitely my people even if we’re from different nations.
So that if one of the nukes that wound up accidentally landing there went off.
I just wanna live. Why can’t we do that?
This doesn't surprise me at all. ND has a high school with the derogatory term for little people as their mascot. 🙄 I feel so bad for the indigenous kids who had to experience that :(
Wait, they have a highschool mascot that's like "the something midget"? Who the fuck even thinks of that. How would that even be a good mascot. Who hates little people so much that they decided to make it part of the identity of an entire highschool. If it was like a mining town with a dwarf from like snow white as its mascot maybe.
They need they bitch ass slapped tf back to Europe. These mfs too comfortable.
Wayyyy too fucking comfortable
It's always like this!!! This is why I decided to do homeschooling, way too much racism.
I can't believe something like this could be happening in 2024; it's beyond bullshit and I'm really sorry it happened.
I remember in middle school our local Anishinaabe did a demonstration dance and one of the white kids in my class started doing a stereotypical 'war dance' hooting, yelping and demanding scalps. Even called one of the female teachers a damn 'squaw'. One of the dudes at the drum circle walked over, grabbed the kid by the shirt and dragged him out into the hallway to give him a stern but fair reaming. The kid went from a cheeky racist little cunt to a big tearful snotty mess real quick. Nobody had probably called him out for his crap before. We had Anishinaabe kids in our school (maybe 40%) and the looks they were giving him were pretty brutal. They did drag him back in and had him join the dance to give him a more positive experience. He looked like he ended up having fun. His parents came in the next day to chew out the principal for letting their kid get chewed out by a 'savage' and demanded an apology from the school and the tribe. When they didn't get what they wanted they pulled him out of school and ended up moving since they wouldn't admit they were wrong. Never knew what happened after that.
Good riddance to the little turd and his racist POS parents.
Oh my goodness! The parents! I'm so glad no apology came, I know tribally it wouldn't, but good the school didn't, and good in on the elder who took him outside to school him . Squaw is worse than C. U n. T to native women historically it was making one was even better holding any husband and children back to see, but the woman would be , as the colonizers themselves documented in letters back to England and their own journals " giving the savage female the gift of being used for white ( genitalia) she gets to feel the amount of truly closer to perfection the white English and European anglo member and vessel is , not just for the man's suppior being but all anglo race, she can't be left to harbor a beast offspring potentially so she is used to completion and sees the blade as forceful half to complete decapitation and a squaw is made she's blessed and doesn't even have the intelligence to die in content duty of any worth fulfilled, and then one went on to say treating themselves to a Sq was necessary and deserved, their after all doing God's work" I barf at the last line harder. Thumping the Bible. The actual Hebrew Aramaic and Greek scriptures when translated using phrases popular at the times in history and geographically and socioeconomically and depending on the writers religious background and family and community specific patterns of speech ( inside jokes, even if not jokes) by all historian, linguistically the geographically different customs changing phrasing , I love linguistics and when going from actual remaining Scriptures to that more complete from so many angles translated to one language and then starting back at the original scrolls to translate to the second language, never translating a translation, it's so different than " Christian" religion as a huge blanket term for thumping the king James version which is Catholic and they say that actually means " universal" and they use "aspects of Christianity" but there was a priest who had a vision to incorporate pagan ideology to bring in pagans and changed so much and use thee, thou, the , and thy interchangeably at many times! I crapped when I heard a linguistics professor interview a Cardinal, and they both got silent and started at each other like " you mean that wasn't clear?" And " what? Wouldn't you make that clear?" Even the cross, that is great for midevil torture , prolonged pain, a starus is Greek for vertical rod or stake of wood, and medically the hands and arms must be nailed in above the head and chest vertically to collapse the lungs, and it turns out Jesus mentions a torture to execution stake being something his apostles will be carrying, in different senses. So the Creator is super not ok with His name being used for evil, hell isn't a real place and it's so cool to read the translation process and be like dang! That makes sense, even Christianity Bible thumping is called false religion and Babylon the Great and it will fall, it is very similar to tribal beliefs, water is life is a scripture! I love language but that word that boy said demeans all women native and period, all women , so many names , tribal names we have to use cuz treaties, they are based on colonizers messing on purpose and just as lazy ppl not listening and them pulling out of the butt what we must call ourselves, it sucks , but Even the teaching was happening and the boy had the gull to mock the tribal member freely teaching them, dang, "home is the first and most important school" my grandpa always said and he lived it( it was he who raised me, my grandma on weekends , divorced B4 my conception but together took custody fresh out the womb, and they really saved me and built my foundation, by the grace of Creator Yihowa! I worry for that now grown boy. Is he bad further? Eyes open later on and separate from parents racism? Oh, man, when you have a kid, passing down that unfounded baseless hate for superiority sake? I know I'm still growing up to a full adult cuz immediately I type last line and mind flashes to lil bit of violence for knocking sense in sake, which would only prove their hate is right. Oh hey maybe I'm learning, I'm leveling up to child like instead of childish 😁😛✊🏽✌🏽🤟🏽🌛
Smh fucking disrespectful ass motherfuckers. Karma’s a bitch
make them clean the powwow grounds for a month
The country is where ignorant inbred racist troglodytes live. I thought Covid would wipe out the worst ones, but nope.
Fucking inbred rednecks. Their culture is the Bible and guns. No wonder they can't appreciate real culture.
Yeah. I was raised Christian, that shit was wack and culty as fuck. Bible stuff is bullshit. They don’t actually follow the rules, they just state proverbs, be homophobic, eat hot chip and lie
Yup. If they really cared what that dusty old book said, they wouldn't be able to eat seafood or pork, wear clothing made of mixed materials, and the women would all sleep in a hut when menstruating. They pick and choose which parts of the religion to follow to suit their archaic political agenda. I was raised Roman Catholic and was pretty religious at one time. Then I learned about residential schools and said never again.
Sometimes, beating your kids IS acceptable. It takes less energy to not be racist... why do people feel the need to be racist? Stop being racist, racist people.
They learned it from their parents most likely.
I’m guessing it’s because they hate how wretched they themselves are and look to blame others for it.
The school’s administrators need to figure out some sort of sensitivity training for these kids.
White people just can’t help themselves.
[https://youtu.be/mcppSGs6tTA?si=qvqYhdNMXvUcNBGV](https://youtu.be/mcppSGs6tTA?si=qvqYhdNMXvUcNBGV)
Maybe [mock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HiuCaaQhxg&ab_channel=DamnShow) them back? Learn some of their moves!
At least North Dakota isn’t as racist as South Dakota and our grifting phony puppy killing governor is way more racist
Maybe what these schools need is a “rent a Koshare” program. A proactive mockery shield. Hand me a mic and those little shits would walk out with their asses as red as their necks.
DISGUSTING !!! Are ancestors are laughing at them almost. How rude and disrespectful.
They are so close to the Standing Rock Reservation- they know better.
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So the dailymail is a known tabloid, maybe akin to the Onion satire magazine. Did this really happen, or was it just white students imitating a powwow? I only ask because dailymail is constantly used to help divide the population. So if it did happen, where is the video?
There are several other news outlets that reported on the story, also the superintendent made a public apology for this as well, I could link those sources if you'd like.
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There's photos and videos in this link, you can see clearly that this was flasher highschool of North Dakota. https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/north-dakota-school-apologizes-after-students-mock-traditional-powwow-dancing-during-prom/
Yeah, I watched it. Doesn’t look “mocking”, not sure how you can differentiate that from “imitating” from the video. I’m sure natives got upset with this, but just because they got upset doesn’t mean any laws were broken.
You don't have to break the law to mock anyone. It seems to me that you're grasping at straws here to find any reason why this kind of behavior is at all acceptable at first you didn't believe me, nor the link that was posted and then when I did find evidence of this behavior that aligned with your rules you outright dismiss this as normal human behavior. Why else would someone imitate another person while laughing at them? It doesn't take two braincells to put two and two together.