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Thursday, August 9, 2018

Peter Pan

I would say that my position is that the film and play version of Peter Pan is that represents the racist past and ongoing oppression of indigenous people and I do not support it's production. It has done more damage to the image, history, and culture of indigenous people than almost anything else as it is the one single memory almost everyone has of Native Americans. Simply portraying a real group of people as part of a "fantasy world" makes our real culture invisible, keeps us stuck in the past, and puts us up against pretend, imaginary characters, instead of the living, breathing people we are.