Presaging a book we will read toward the end of the semester, this story came out about a music festival banning (presumably non-native) audience members from wearing “native” headdresses. Perhaps this will be helpful to reconsider after we read Michael Brown’s book.



Full article here.

A few days after I read this, I heard a segment on a more recent episode of the Backstory podcast (it is now quite apparent what I listen to while I walk around Tokyo!) that describes earlier instances of white Americans using Native clothing as fashion.