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How to Make Indian Dolls |
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by Steven Hicks
Email: hugoles (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!)
Phone: 367.6241 |
18 Oct 2001
Modified: 23 Oct 2001 |
found on a Disney website. how to make Indian Dolls
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Indian Dolls
Next time you're shucking corn for dinner, don't throw away the husks—dry them in the sun for one to three days, and you'll have the makings for a corn-husk doll.
MATERIALS:
• Dried corn husks or tamale wrappers (available at grocery stores)
• Twine
• Scissors
• Pipecleaners |
These instructions I came across from a link to family.com, 'a part of the Disney magic'. They detail how to make Indian dolls from used corn husks (likely for Thanksgiving decorations). Ive written a letter to be sent to the editor of family.com, and copied to an address at disney.com. Feel free to use the letter and sign your name (please do!)
steven.
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to:
guest.mail (at) online.disney.com
editor_in_chief (at) Family.com
To the editor,
Your suggestions for constructing 'Indian Dolls' from used corn husks is demeaning and outrageous (http://family.go.com/crafts/cutpaste/feature/famf1000corndoll/).
With the history of constructing images of Indians in America, from scalp-crazy savages to the docile and tractable Pocahontas, it is a wonder that you publish such a literal exercise in racism. Presumably you have done so in anticipation of the Thanksgiving holiday. Many of your readers will include such ‘traditional’ decorations in their holiday display, recalling to them the deep-seated image of Native and white settlers peaceably sharing an autumn meal. This enduring fantasy elides the true history of the slaughter, rape, and forced displacement of Indians by early European settlers and subsequent American governments.
Your website’s audience (family.com) and its affiliation with the Disney company give it enormous potential for influencing children. To sanction and encourage the manufacturing of racism and false histories when you are in such a position of influence shows reckless irresponsibility. The beatings and murders of Middle Eastern and Muslim peoples since the 11 September attacks sadly illustrate how subtly racism takes hold of a person’s mind and how disastrously this racism proves when put into action. I do not believe it is the intention of your website, nor the Disney company, to condone and further the recent racist attacks. But you currently sustain the spirit of racism by reducing a tragic history to playthings made from rubbish, and by silencing the voices of those who’ve suffered centuries of injustice.
Therefore, I ask you to remove these instructions for ‘Indian Dolls’ from your website and issue an apology in its place to any who have been the victims of its racism.
Sincerely,
Steven Hicks
402 S Busey
Urbana, IL 61801
217.367.6241
hugoles (at) yahoo.com |
See also:
http://family.go.com/crafts/cutpaste/feature/famf1000corndoll/
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typo fixed |
by Steven Hicks
hugoles (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
18 Oct 2001
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sorry, in the previous post I missed a typo which made a subject-verb agreement error. fixed letter below.
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To the editor,
Your suggestion of constructing 'Indian Dolls' from used corn husks is demeaning and outrageous (http://family.go.com/crafts/cutpaste/feature/famf1000corndoll/).
With the history of constructing images of Indians in America, from scalp-crazy savages to the docile and tractable Pocahontas, it is a wonder that you publish such a literal exercise in racism. Presumably you have done so in anticipation of the Thanksgiving holiday. Many of your readers will include such ‘traditional’ decorations in their holiday display, recalling to them the deep-seated image of Native and white settlers peaceably sharing an autumn meal. This enduring fantasy elides the true history of the slaughter, rape, and forced displacement of Indians by early European settlers and subsequent American governments.
Your website’s audience (family.com) and its affiliation with the Disney company give it enormous potential for influencing children. To sanction and encourage the manufacturing of racism and false histories when you are in such a position of influence shows reckless irresponsibility. The beatings and murders of Middle Eastern and Muslim peoples since the 11 September attacks sadly illustrate how subtly racism takes hold of a person’s mind and how disastrously this racism proves when put into action. I do not believe it is the intention of your website, nor the Disney company, to condone and further the recent racist attacks. But you currently sustain the spirit of racism by reducing a tragic history to playthings made from rubbish, and by silencing the voices of those who’ve suffered centuries of injustice.
Therefore, I ask you to remove these instructions for ‘Indian Dolls’ from your website and issue an apology in its place to any who have been the victims of its racism.
Sincerely,
Steven Hicks
402 S Busey
Urbana, IL 61801
217.367.6241
hugoles (at) yahoo.com |
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23 Oct 2001
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