{"id":43180,"date":"2015-10-11T20:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T20:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43180"},"modified":"2016-10-31T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:23:58","slug":"we-organized-a-student-pow-wow-and-some-of-the-attendees-had-clearly-studied-at-the-grey-owl-school-of-indian-fakery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43180","title":{"rendered":"We organized a student pow-wow and some of the attendees had clearly studied at the Grey Owl School of Indian fakery."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But the longer I spent at that university, the more of them I ran into. People who confused having an \u201cinterest\u201d in Indigenous culture with \u201cgoing full redface.\u201d We organized a student <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pow_wow\" target=\"_blank\">pow-wow<\/a> and some of the attendees had clearly studied at the Grey Owl School of Indian fakery. They showed up with feathers in their hair and introduced themselves with names like, \u201cRunning Wolf.\u201d I remember that name very clearly because it belonged to a man well over three hundred pounds and I remember cattily whispering that a better name would have been: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sedentary\" target=\"_blank\">Sedentary<\/a> Wolf.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dawndumont\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn Dumont<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42472\" target=\"_blank\">That\u2019s What She Said: Red-face<\/a>,\u201d <em>Eagle Feather News<\/em>, August 2, 2005. <a href=\"http:\/\/eaglefeathernews.com\/opinion\/index.php?detail=1458\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eaglefeathernews.com\/opinion\/index.php?detail=1458<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the longer I spent at that university, the more of them I ran into. People who confused having an \u201cinterest\u201d in Indigenous culture with \u201cgoing full redface.\u201d We organized a student pow-wow and some of the attendees had clearly studied at the Grey Owl School of Indian fakery. They showed up with feathers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20871,20872],"class_list":["post-43180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dawn-dumont","tag-eagle-feather-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43181,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43180\/revisions\/43181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}