Nice of them to compliment us too.
http://forum.americanindiantribe.com/viewtopic.php?t=3738&sid=f040a39cac4477aea0a87ba7cd2e0b91"Wannabes
http://indianz.com/board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18985 http://www.bluecorncomics.com/wannabes.htm As pertaining to American Indians, Wannabes are non-Indians who pretend to be, copy, emulate or otherwise “want to be??? Indian or affiliated with indians for a variety of reasons including: profit, promoting their agenda (Political, spiritual, ecological, commercial, etc,) and making up for some shortcoming in their own "spiritual" or "cultural" traditions.
Cultural Appropriation
http://encyc.bmezine.com/?Cultural_Appropriation Cultural appropriation is the theft of rituals, aesthetic standards and behavior from one culture by another, generally by a "modern" culture from a "primitive" culture — often this involves the conversion of religion and spirituality into "meaningless" pop-culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation Cultural appropriation is the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group. It denotes acculturation, but often connotates a negative view towards acculturation from a minority culture by a dominant culture.It can include the introduction of forms of dress or personal adornment, music and art, religion, language, or behavior. These elements, once removed from their indigenous cultural contexts, may take on meanings that are significantly divergent from, or merely less nuanced than, those they originally held. Or, they may be stripped of meaning altogether.
Websites and articles:
Series of articles by Avis Little Eagle, for Native American TimesNotes from Indian Country “Exposing the fake medicine men and women???
Fakers and phonies and frauds, egad: There ought to be a law by Suzan Harjo
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412438 Jumper, Silena. States Endorsing New Tribes is Damaging Our Culture. “News From Indian Country.
24 Sept. 1999.
http://www.indiancountrynews.com/ Hipkins, Stephen “Playing Indian and other groups, websites and activities that aren’t quite right.
Many Rivers. 25 Aug. 2005.
http://free.hostdepartment.com/M/ManyRivers/page3.html Groups and resource websites that Oppose New Age Fraud and Wannabes
Gohiyuhi=Respect (One of the best sites keeping track of these frauds, also includes many of the tribal declarations against exploiters)
http://users.pandora.be/gohiyuhi/index.htm New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans (Very good resource site and forum.)
http://newagefraud.org/ Shame-ons
http://shameons.bravepages.com/ Line In the Sand: New Age Lists
http://www.hanksville.org/sand/intellect/newage.html Our Red Earth (Effective ways on how to deal with New Age Frauds)
http://www.geocities.com/ourredearth/ Isghooda’s site
http://ishgooda.org/racial/playind.htm Line in the Sand
http://www.hanksville.org/sand/sand.html Spiritual Commodification
http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/native.html http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/the Plastic Medicine People Circle.htm
Playing Indian
http://free.hostdepartment.com/M/ManyRivers/page3.html Wannabi Website
http://info.nwmissouri.edu/~vandyke/wanabi.htm Bluecorn comics (a white guy’s site)
http://www.bluecorncomics.com/wannabes.htm Comanche University of the 49, Rick's Indian 101 (Religious "studies"
http://members.tripod.com/TopCat4/crystal.htm Plastic Shamans and Astroturf Sun Dances: New Age Commercialization of Native American Spirituality
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/american_indian_quarterly/v024/24.3aldred.html Plastic Shamans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_shamans American Indian Cultural Support
http://www.aics.org/index.html Cornel Pewewardy: Fluff and Feathers
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/pewe/writing/Fluff.html Spiritual Genocide
http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/spir-genocide.html Stereotype Drumhop
http://stereotype.drumhop.com/ Quohadi’s information on Plastic Shamans
http://www.comanchelodge.com/plastic-shamans.html Native American Association of Germany (German group trying to explain the Wannabe phenomenon)
http://www.naaog.de/ Swedish Group
http://www.world-foundation.nu/ Books:
Playing Indian by Philip Deloria
Custer Died for your Sins by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth by Elizabeth Lynn-Cook
The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance edited by MA Jaimes
American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities by Devon Mihesuah
Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing ed. MariJo Moore
“Procedures for Establishing that an American Indian Group Exists as an Indian Tribe.
Code of Federal Regulations. 59 FR 9293, Feb. 25, 1994.
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children. Edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin
Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Childre. Edited by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale
American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children., Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette Fairbanks Molin and Yvonne Wakim.
Keeping Promises: What is Sovereignty and other Questions about Indian Country by Betty Reid and Ben Winton.
Tonto’s Revenge: Reflections on American Indian Culture and Policby Rennard Strickland
Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown
The Rights of Indians and Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU guide to Indian and Tribal Right by Stephen Pevar
American Indians: Answers to Today’s Questions by Jack Utter
Contemporary Native American Cultural Issue ed Duane Champagne"
