Update 4 February 2016: The Karl May Museum reneges on its agreement to return native human remains. Unfortunately, I and other natives and allies experienced in German and Native American interaction were disregarded by the native negotiator who first attempted this because they didn’t accept the German mindset and employed strategies that didn’t and wouldn’t […]
Tag: cultural appropriation
“We’re a Culture, Not a Costume” in Germany: Confronting and Informing the Ignorant
Rainald Grebe (artist/performer/comedian) slowly walks out on-stage in a slow, manner as if lacking intellect, while dressed in a pathetic mish-mash of Indianer (the German word for Native Americans of North America), and the audience immediately begins to laugh. That’s the intro for one of Rainald Grebe’s stage shows. It is not funny. Upcoming December, […]
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