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**Incal** · 06-16-2023, 07:10 AM

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**Aila** · 07-06-2023, 04:38 AM

A little while ago I watched this documentary and thought it was touching because of its realness.
One can well understand why the Colombian bloke wanted to find his roots and re-establish his felt identity.
One can also understand the love his adoptive parents feel for him and their fear of losing their son:

Then again … I think I understand why another (a native) Colombian didn’t feel like a foreigner in a foreign land, because he was adopted by the Saami, which became his felt identity.

OMG is he a Saami or what! (& I’m bawling my eyes out here; it is so bloody soul & heart felt):

My other gran may well have been 1/2 Saami genetically, but she nor I would never wear our specific Saami Gakti (clothing), and not because we do not know it - we do, but because we were not brought up in that specific group even though psycho-spiritually we were the living continuation of those ancestors legacy both in the positive sense and in the negative (specific to our family) generational trauma of it.
Still, I have no resentment of a 0% Saami DNA Colombian being able to wear a Gakti – whilst I don’t – it is just the way it traditionally is.

I assume the same applied to Amerinds. They also adopted outsiders as a part of their community until the Casino money changed things.

All of this brings me to this artist, I saw recently:

I can well understand and feel empathetic about why this Peruvian native living in Poland also wants to re-establish his felt identity.

But isn’t that Plains Indians clothing? …. Surely it is not a “costume” to wear for all Amerinds, North and South?
If he is serious about his cultural survival, why isn’t he adhering to Peruvian Indian dress code?

Besides the music for the movie: “The last of the Mohicans” if I am correct – was not composed by Amerinds.

It seems to me he is mimicking native American stereotype for white audiences and people are buying it hook line and sinker because it accords to their projections.

**ugochaves** · 07-06-2023, 05:48 AM

Originally Posted by Aila

A little while ago I watched this documentary and thought it was touching because of its realness.
One can well understand why the Colombian bloke wanted to find his roots and re-establish his felt identity.
One can also understand the love his adoptive parents feel for him and their fear of losing their son:

Then again … I think I understand why another (a native) Colombian didn’t feel like a foreigner in a foreign land, because he was adopted by the Saami, which became his felt identity.

OMG is he a Saami or what! (& I’m bawling my eyes out here; it is so bloody soul & heart felt):

My other gran may well have been 1/2 Saami genetically, but she nor I would never wear our specific Saami Gakti (clothing), and not because we do not know it - we do, but because we were not brought up in that specific group even though psycho-spiritually we were the living continuation of those ancestors legacy both in the positive sense and in the negative (specific to our family) generational trauma of it.
Still, I have no resentment of a 0% Saami DNA Colombian being able to wear a Gakti – whilst I don’t – it is just the way it traditionally is.

I assume the same applied to Amerinds. They also adopted outsiders as a part of their community until the Casino money changed things.

All of this brings me to this artist, I saw recently:

I can well understand and feel empathetic about why this Peruvian native living in Poland also wants to re-establish his felt identity.

But isn’t that Plains Indians clothing? …. Surely it is not a “costume” to wear for all Amerinds, North and South?
If he is serious about his cultural survival, why isn’t he adhering to Peruvian Indian dress code?

Besides the music for the movie: “The last of the Mohicans” if I am correct – was not composed by Amerinds.

It seems to me he is mimicking native American stereotype for white audiences and people are buying it hook line and sinker because it accords to their projections.

All the "music of the Amerinds" was composed by Europeans, the Germans released an entire album of Indian Spirit. Now we perceive it as a Native American culture. In fact, it is impossible to listen to real Native American music-these are senseless screams to the beat of a drum. The clothes of this Peruvian are not from the Plains Indians, but from the Gypsies.

**Aila** · 07-06-2023, 06:12 AM

Originally Posted by ugochaves

All the "music of the Amerinds" was composed by Europeans, the Germans released an entire album of Indian Spirit. Now we perceive it as a Native American culture. In fact, it is impossible to listen to real Native American music-these are senseless screams to the beat of a drum. The clothes of this Peruvian are not from the Plains Indians, but from the Gypsies.

LOL. The New Age hobby lifestyle of Germans:

He is milking it though for all it is worth lol and people buying into it in the name of ... makes me cringe :

**Aila** · 07-09-2023, 02:54 AM

South American musical and cultural influences in Sydney:
La Vina, the Spanish Club, the nightclub with live Latin bands (can’t remember it’s name), “Cultural Brazil” & La Pena: