Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Evaluation Essay: Appropriating Native American imagery honors no one but the prejudice In Canada and the United States, the propriety of using images and terms that refer to Native American people as the mascot or name for a sports team is an issue of public controversy (Shanley 677). This evaluation essay is focused on the appropriation of the imagery of Native American people and maintains that this appropriation does not really honor anybody. The only thing it honours is prejudice. Claim: appropriating Native American imagery is offensive. Reasons: cultural appropriation, incorrect racial portrayals, and racial stereotyping do not honour a breathing, living people. Cultural appropriation is totally disrespectful, particularly when members of the culture dissent that cultural appropriation. It is racial insensitivity. Appropriating Native American imagery amounts to a certain form of bullying which has a significant negative effect on young Native American persons. Alaskan Native and Native American young persons have the highest incidences of suicide-related deaths, and the lack of positive images of the Native American
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