What the heck are all these Indians acting all Indian about, eh?
Lately, Native people have taken to the streets malls in demonstrations of Public Indian-ness (or “PI”) that surpasses the sheer volume of activism of even Alcatraz and the Longest Walk.
There’s a heapum big amount of PI going on right now! Many people, non-Native and Native alike, are wondering what the heck is going with their local Native population and how this so-called #IdleNoMore movement managed to get the usually muffled Natives restless enough to be Indian in public. I mean, like Chris Rock said, he hasn’t ever even met two Indians at the same time. He’s seen “polar bears riding a tricycle” but he’s “never seen an Indian family just chillin’ out at Red Lobster.”
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The full article, printed in the February 2013 issue of Works in Progress, can be found elsewhere on the worldwide web, including here at Huffington Post: Still Don’t Know What #IdleNoMore Is About? Here’s a Cheat-Sheet …
More PHOTOS by Zoltán Grossman can be found on Facebook: IdleNoMore Flashmob in Olympia
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