Dancing Indian Woman by coolj001
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This is a digital photograph of an Indian Woman dancing at the "Super Saturday Festival" at Evergreen State College here in Olympia, WA. I am not sure what Tribe this is, or what dance this is ,but I figured I would take a picture regardless. Thanks for looking, -Peace :-)
(postwork with HP Photo Editor: sharpen/resize)
Comments (7)
Tanialmeida
great shot Jef! an amazing cultural thresure!
luciferino
Beautiful image a perfect shot for a great dancer bye bye Orietta
Tedz
Yep...National Heritage...don't see enough of it these Days. Kewl:)
cynlee
i have great respect for the American Indian- nice shot- i feel bad sometimes that we took their land & corrupted them with our ways- i hope she's happy
grrrduhbear
Looks like a cool time fur all. good shot. Grrrrrrrrrr
danob
I have a lot of mixed feelings when I view such scenes I agree with Cynlee.. We could learn so much from the culture and traditions of our past generations all in the name of so called progress.. The balloons and party atmoshere just seems to add a bitter sweet poignancy!
lookoo
You have captured very nicely the dynamic of the swinging fringes. As for the ongoing comments - oh dear ... as soon as a native american is presented who is not soaked in a sauce of tacky Disney kitsch things get either very political or very psychoanalytical. Somewhere deep within the patriotic brain a phone is ringing. It has been ringing for a long time already. But one doesn't pick up the phone. Because one knows already what would happen then. The shrill voice of the superego would scream: Genocide. Theft. Lies. Mega-Crime. The Native Americans got only one line in the Declaration of Independence dedicated to them referring to "the merciless Indian savages, whose known rules of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions". This grotesquely untrue assertion marks something very important: the ageold "them and us", the fact that the first nations were regarded as being outside "we the people", outside the scope of all morality. America exterminated 98% of the Native Americans, then reduced the natives to footbal mascots and pop-up dummys to give John Wayne something to shoot at and dots the country today with memorials and university programs dedicated to a foreign holocaust that occurred half a world away. But still, it doesn't really work. Things like a single harmless middle-aged dancer in a native dancing costume suddenly rings a tune again - and immediately reminds us of the unanswered phone call.