No Doubt, exploiting 'hot' Native American stereotypes is never OK | Lisa Charleyboy

Gwen Stefani

group has released a video with a swarm of a tuft of eagle feathers. End the cultural appropriation here

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Gwen Stefani

bind with rope and arms raised above her while she is at gunpoint and twisted side to side like a parody of girls pretending to be punished. Typical power clip, but this time she gets a bunch of eagle feathers, a shield and a leather fringe designed to depict a Native American woman.

"Looking Hot", the latest video from No Doubt, was released last Friday and immediately caused outrage among Native Americans and their allies, who found the content denigrating their culture. The online uproar resulted in the group taking the offending video and apologize "to the indigenous community and anyone offended by this video." Apology stated: "As a multiracial group of our foundation is based on the diversity and consideration for other cultures"

But this is not the first time that Stefani has missed the boat. Remember when she was four silent Asian women presenting themselves as "Harajuku Girls" its underlying wherever she went? Oh, and then there was this phase in the 1990s when wearing bindis and saris at every given opportunity. Obviously you missed the memo that the band's music and the community is based on "respect, unity and integration" that the appointment excuse.

thin excuses however, is that the decision to remove the video is a step in the right direction. The fact that "they consulted with Native Americans and Native American friends studies experts from the University of California", however, lead me to wonder about how the video was considered appropriate for those friends and "experts" who were probably not native in the first place. I do not think that many Native American people who attended the launch of an eagle staff, the native style of the stereotypical Hollywood dancing around the fire, or the objectification and sexualization of Native women not offensive. It is this last that I reacted to most.

Aboriginal women have been exploited by the settlers of prostitution since the time of Columbus, and the impact of this history of sexual violence rears its ugly head today. United States, the data indicate that women Alaska Native and Native Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than non-Aboriginal women, 86% of managers are not native. In Canada, Aboriginal women aged 25 to 44 are five times more likely than other Canadian women in the same age group die from violence. Suddenly, the sexualization open and victimization of Native women in a pop video does not seem so trivial.

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