Yo, White person selling overpriced shit on Etsy…
1. Your store name contains a slur. Well done there.
2. This “Indian chief portrait” is almost $500, which you envision as the profit owed to you for ‘creating it’.
3. You found the original image of the Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud by searching “old indian chief” on Google Images. And you did an awful job of reproducing it.
4. You dare to sell his likeness to go along with some “cool tribal pillows” that bastardize and monetize legitimate traditional arts and cultures.
5. Makhpiya-Luta (Red Cloud) spent his entire life fighting to maintain the integrity of his Nation against the constant assault of White American forces. Your attempt to make money off of his image is a fully-wrought colonial act, made possible by your racist disregard for Native peoples and the history of the land you live on.
You should burn your painting out of respect for the man it defames.
this that white bullshit
Reblogging this because it’s important for non natives to know that this is not okay do do, if you aren’t native then there is no reason for you to make or “reproduce” native art. End of story.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Seriously. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
I can’t tell if you are trolling or not.
There is literally NOTHING wrong with what they’re doing. They painted a picture. They’re selling it. There’s nothing racist about that!
You paint a picture of MLK Jr. You sell it. Is that RACIST? Oh, yeah, sorry, I guess I can’t produce BLACK ART because depicting a BLACK MAN IN ART IS APPARENTLY RACIST.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?! I’m seriously about to rip out my hair at the stupidity of this.
Also: “if you aren’t native then there is no reason for you to make or “reproduce” native art. End of story.” Take that and shove it up your ass because it is the stupidest fucking argument I have ever heard in my entire life.
I’m not even going to explain myself.
Good fucking day.