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Coyote & Crow: Stories of the Free Lands: An Interview with Connor Alexander
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<blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 8752653" data-attributes="member: 58401"><p>That’s true, cultural exchange and appropriation is a real tight-rope.</p><p></p><p>Food is always an easy example to relate to, but it’s also so low-stakes. For something more difficult, the Pope recently visited Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the Indigenous residential schools cultural genocide in the 19th and 20th centuries. (Let’s not discuss that aspect here; it’s just context to my example.) At one point, one of Canada’s chiefs placed a feathered headdress on the Pope’s head—this action was highly controversial, in part because of the appropriation aspect of the Pope seen wearing a feathered headdress. But the Pope was invited to Canada by Indigenous peoples to give an apology, and that chief was within his right to present a headdress to whomever… so is the controversy just the symbolism? I don’t think this is the place to try to solve those questions (we surely won’t) but there is a parallel. </p><p></p><p>Here I see Connor Alexander and team have written a game and invited the world to play it which is their right, just like that chief had the right to invite the Pope to Canada and to invite him to wear the headdress he was presented.</p><p></p><p>Maybe the secret is just to not assume that Coyote & Crow speaks for all Indigenous people, and to merely let it stand alone and speak for whoever wants it to speak for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorhook, post: 8752653, member: 58401"] That’s true, cultural exchange and appropriation is a real tight-rope. Food is always an easy example to relate to, but it’s also so low-stakes. For something more difficult, the Pope recently visited Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the Indigenous residential schools cultural genocide in the 19th and 20th centuries. (Let’s not discuss that aspect here; it’s just context to my example.) At one point, one of Canada’s chiefs placed a feathered headdress on the Pope’s head—this action was highly controversial, in part because of the appropriation aspect of the Pope seen wearing a feathered headdress. But the Pope was invited to Canada by Indigenous peoples to give an apology, and that chief was within his right to present a headdress to whomever… so is the controversy just the symbolism? I don’t think this is the place to try to solve those questions (we surely won’t) but there is a parallel. Here I see Connor Alexander and team have written a game and invited the world to play it which is their right, just like that chief had the right to invite the Pope to Canada and to invite him to wear the headdress he was presented. Maybe the secret is just to not assume that Coyote & Crow speaks for all Indigenous people, and to merely let it stand alone and speak for whoever wants it to speak for them. [/QUOTE]
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