Posted on 04/01/2009 5:52:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A party for a group of Burning Man festival devotees in Oakland billed as a "fundraiser for the Native American Church touched off tensions among Native Americans.
The "Go Native" party was scheduled for Saturday night at the Bordello, and a discount was initially offered to attendees who arrived "in Native costume."
Instead, it become a lesson in cultural sensitivity as actual natives lectured the partygoers for hours, leaving some in tears.
The annual Burning Man festival, which draws tens of thousands of artists, revelers and new age spiritualists, is held in Nevada's Black Rock desert near land reserved by the government for the Paiute tribe.
Organizers of the Visionary Village camp had sponsored the party, but after Native Americans discovered the party listing on Tribe.net, a war of words began.
Eventually, organizers met with local tribal leaders and promised to cancel the party.
Still, a few revellers showed up, only to be confronted by angry detractors.
"If you want to be spiritual — go be a Druid or something," a Hopi woman vented at a hipster who asked for native help on Burning Man projects.
Jackson West figures that the real story here is to conflate mescaline use with cultural or spiritual understanding.
The "Go Native" party was scheduled for Saturday night at the Bordello, and a discount was initially offered to attendees who arrived "in Native costume."
they were all drunk.... a fundraiser for a church at a boredllo??
Man, talk about a buzz-killer.
Shoulda made ‘em all do the sun dance.
It takes a visonary village . . .
This being “burning man” I would say that it was all code for an orgy.
No one said they werent stupid.
The tyranny of the tolerant over the hyper sensitive.
Everyone seems to want to be NA, but only a few are fortunate!
Don’t know why. Never put no taters on my table. I got the shovel teeth but no casino. LOL!
“”If you want to be spiritual — go be a Druid or something,” a Hopi woman vented at a hipster who asked for native help on Burning Man projects.”
“Christy Turner II believes that the skeletal remains of at least 286 Hopi indicate that they had been cannibalized by other Hopi”
http://books.google.com/books?id=Snhdz7DcjfMC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=%22Christy+Turner+II+believes+that+the+skeletal%22&source=bl&ots=ggN-tqJJmJ&sig=mpPEKWAPLkoP671aJiy4VSM8c7g&hl=en&ei=xA7USevRB5-KtgOUz5yxCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
LOL...losers.
The greatest enemy of the Hopi and Paiute turns out to be the "Wannabe".
I always thought that the Burning Man was actually more Druid than American Indian.
See Wicker Man in Wikipedia or elsewhere.
However, to be more close to Druid practices, one needs actual live people caged in the "Man".
Not me. I wanna be an indigenous peruvian. They have the best hats.
LOL
Not me. I wanna be an indigenous peruvian. They have the best hats.
If someone can't pass for black, and they want to get on the downtrodden minority circuit, they just "discover" a Tsalagi Princess in the line. Got them all over around here, none fit to hold cigars in a cigar store! They walk funny, easy to spot.
I wanna be viking for the lootin, burnin, and pillagin.
HEY NO FAIR!
I thought we had to choose from the new world!
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