"Sioux Chief" Drain: Honoring Natives in a Bathroom Near You!

In headdress, sioux, Sioux Chief Drains, Sioux Chief Manufacturing Company by Adrienne K.3 Comments

(image source) It’s definitely an honor to have the place where dirty, disgusting water drains in rest stop bathrooms to be named after the most revered position in your tribe, right? According to the Sioux Chief Manufacturing Company, that’s exactly what they were going for. Tipster Ann spotted this tribute to the “proud and resolute people” of the Sioux Nation …

North American Indians: a step by step guide to "playing Indian"

In American Indian, books, children's literature, Navajo, playing indian, scholastic, sioux, tlingit by Adrienne K.7 Comments

My friend Katie is currently in her first year of teaching 4th grade on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota (go Katie!), and she sent me a scanned copy of this ridiculous book that was in her classroom library. I’ll let her give the context: “I finally started going through my classroom’s library and was pretty appalled to find this …