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nativeskins:

the-north-american:

petitmonstres:

GETTING NATIVE!

So I was reading the METRO this morning and came across this charming little article about Mr & Mrs Jerzyszck from Coventry who were inspired to live a Native lifestyle after they met a bloke down in their local Morrisons by the name of “Grizzly Walking Thunder” ! I don’t even know where to begin with this story, how amazing! Coventry of all places, and then in Morrisons, I would have thought you met that type in a late night Tesco’s. Embracing the Native American lifestyle… in Coventry, the couple now go by the names Running Bear and Small Warrior and go to regular meetings with other members of the community.

The fact that these people are British makes the whole situation absurd and ludicrous.  Their reversion to paganism is admirable but they are continentally confused.  There are no Native Americans in Europe.  So I wonder what community it is that they regularly gather with.

Obviously this is more than a case of playing dress up, but wouldn’t it be lovely to meet a person like that with the power to influence you in what you wear, inspire you and wake you up! Wouldn’t it be better if YOU were that person?

Obviously, this is ONLY a case of playing dress-up, because, for one thing, modern American Indians do not wear buckskin and feathers on a daily basis.  We prefer jeans and a t-shirt.  It’s rather ironic that this couple was so ‘influenced’ and ‘inspired’ to wear sacred regalia, because the aboriginal American Indians also met people (Europeans) with the power to change what they wore.  That was called forced assimilation.

Little Warrior and Running Bear are so adorable, and I was thinking about native patterns and textures the other day in my previous post about NEXT’s new accessories range and compiled a group of some lovely native inspired jewellery.

They’re not adorable at all.  They’re just shameful.

This is what happens when your a Hipster in your 50’s. Horrid.

white people need their own fucking culture.