The Spunky Squaw Change Your Business Name

THIS is a racist slur and must be removed from all social media networks, it’s offensive to the indigenous community and we must enforce to do better as a whole, this is despicable.

Completely in appropriate. Cultural appropriation

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She's such an arrogant, entitled POS who sells really ugly, culturally appropriated clothing and her supporters are equally bad.

Minnesota Chippewa enrolled at the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Where I come from "squaw" is a derogatory word meaning "hole" used to defame women. Please educate this "business" by sending them the loud clear message that it's not okay and certainly not cute.

What Cultural Appropriation Is (And Isn’t) In short: Cultural appropriation is when somebody adopts aspects of a culture that’s not their own. But that’s only the most basic definition. A deeper understanding of cultural appropriation also refers to a particular power dynamic in which members of a dominant culture take elements from a culture of people who have been systematically oppressed by that dominant group. That’s why cultural appropriation is not the same as cultural exchange, when people share mutually with each other – because cultural exchange lacks that systemic power dynamic. It’s also not the same as assimilation, when marginalized people adopt elements of the dominant culture in order to survive conditions that make life more of a struggle if they don’t. Some say, for instance, that non-Western people who wear jeans and Indigenous people who speak English are taking from dominant cultures, too. But marginalized groups don’t have the power to decide if they’d prefer to stick with their customs or try on the dominant culture’s traditions just for fun. When the last living survivors of massacred Indigenous tribes are fighting to save their language before it dies when they do, and Native students are suspended for speaking in their own Indigenous languages, mirroring the abusive US boarding schools that tried to wipe out Native American cultures up until the 1980s, it’s clear that not every person who speaks English does so by choice. In other words, context matters. Which means it’s not about saying that you, as an individual, are a bad person if you appropriate someone else’s culture. It’s a complicated issue that includes our histories, our current state of affairs, and our future, as we act to eliminate oppression, instead of perpetuating it. So if you’re still baffled about why people would get upset about this issue, consider the following contexts. It Trivializes Violent Historical Oppression... Maisha Z. John

She is ignorant and needs to have her page taken down for promotion of hate speech and derogatory usage of squaw which is offensive to native women

Even if weren't a racist slur, it would still be a terrible name.

Disgraceful.

Show repect.

It's just respect, they should change their name.

This name is not original or wonderful. This is wrong. Please, consider changing your name for the good of our divided country.

"Squaw" is a terrible word that should never, ever be used.

So racist and disrespectful to the thousands of women who go missing and are burdened by this word

My husband and I both have indigenous ancestry. Seeing our culture being used for profit, while they have a slur for a name, is disgusting.

What a derogatory name! This is 2018. Aren’t we past this?!

Have some class and bow out.

Culture in not a costume.

Have some respect for your native people. Do not speak over their voices to spread misinformation and harmful ideas.

Raising awareness on offensive terms!