“The problem is that they’re putting it out there as ‘This is the native,’ or ‘This is native-inspired’. So now you have non-native people representing us in mainstream culture. That, of course, gets tiring, because this has been happening since the good old days of the Hollywood Western in the 1930s and ’40s, where they hired non-native actors and dressed them up essentially in redface.
The issue now is not only who gets to represent Native Americans but also who gets to profit.”
The issue now is not only who gets to represent Native Americans but also who gets to profit.”