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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Maybe you guys need to go chat with a native person in their 80's or 90's about life in Canada in the early sixties, how utterly despised they were, no one in their right mind would claim native roots as a career move prior to the late sixties and even then it wasn't in any way going to make you richer, by the nature of my work I have spent a lot of time around older native people, life as a native here in the 60's was no different than being black in South Africa.
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So your argument is "But there was racism!"
We know. Everyone knows that native people were and still are treated terrible and subject to racism. What Buffy did was pure cultural appropriation during a time time in the 60s when there was a renewed interest in all things native and it absolutely helped her career.
There likely wasn't such a peak in interest in North American natives since Buffalo Bill toured England with the Wild West Show in the early 1900s. She was not a criminal or rough looking native as you are apparently so familiar with, she was a white person presenting a sanitized version of an "indian girl" singer. It was how she marketed herself, might not have been her plan from the start but she went with it and started fabricating a story and telling lies because it got her attention and a career.
What other reason would she have to tell such elaborate lies over decades, and threaten people? Because she liked beads?