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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMockery: Indiana School's 70-Year-Old 'Pipe Ceremony' Comes Under Fire
https://www.thedailybeast.com/indiana-schools-70-year-old-pipe-ceremony-comes-under-fireAn Indiana high school has come under intense scrutiny after a now-deleted TikTok capturing a pregame ritual disrespectful to Native Americans accumulated more than half a million views on the platform.
It was definitely bizarre, Sarah Holba, who recorded and posted the video, told McClatchy News. It kind of makes you feel a little sick to your stomach.
Holba said she had gone to attend a basketball game at Anderson High School when a mascot walked out wearing a headdress. In subsequent footage, according to the Bellingham Herald, students can be seen passing around a kind of pipe and dancing in a style reminiscent of Native stereotypes.
It made a mockery of a sacred pipe ceremony, according to Rachel Thunder, a Native rights activist and organizer. Anderson Community School Corporation has said that an investigation into the performance has been launched. District officials told McClatchy that students at Anderson had been performing the ritual for more than seven decades, and that its intent was to honor our rich Native American history.
Rachel Thunder, director of American Indian Movement The True People of Indiana and Kentucky, said her organization is working to end the use of Native American mascots and imagery in Indiana.
Read it at Bellingham Herald
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Mockery: Indiana School's 70-Year-Old 'Pipe Ceremony' Comes Under Fire (Original Post)
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Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)1. k&r
Deuxcents
(16,248 posts)2. Bizarre. There are others was to honor people. Needs to stop.
brewens
(13,596 posts)3. In junior high, I played for the Sacajawea Savages. That was changed the year after I finished the
9th grade there in 1975. The local Nez Perce tribe approved the Braves name and logos I believe. The mascot may have been painted by one of their artists even, I can't remember for sure. No one raised any stink over it.