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“Earlier this week, David Guetta released a highly controversial video promoting his weekly “F*** Me I’m Famous” residency at Ibiza’s Pacha nightclub, that depicted extremely distasteful and degrading appropriations of Native American attire, culture and practices (the video has since been removed from YouTube). As the star of Pacha’s summer-long, Native American themed party, Guetta used this promotional video as an opportunity to showcase not only his cultural insensitivity, but also, the racist-chic style pallet of the club’s weekly parties, which incorporated face-painted models in buckskin bikinis, feathers and headdresses, carrying a totem pole and enacting war cries. All of which point to trivialization of and disregard for the Native American culture and insensitive cultural appropriation.”
– EDM Tunes, David Guetta’s Racist Video Provokes More Festivals To Ban Headdresses.
“EDM festival ÎleSoniq, which is happening at the same venue from Aug. 14 to 15, has also banned them, according to Osheaga’s Facebook post.
Both decisions follow the lead of B.C.’s Bass Coast Festival, which last year announced it wouldn’t permit the wearing of “feathered war bonnets.”
Headdresses have become a source of controversy as clothing brands and music festival attendees have started treating them as fashionable wear. Critics say they’re a prime example of cultural appropriation.
Metis activist Chelsea Vowel outlined precisely why in a post on her blog âpihtawikosisân.
She explained that headdresses are restricted items in indigenous cultures that are usually only worn by men who have carried out certain actions in order to earn them.
“So unless you are a native male from a Plains nation who has earned a headdress, or you have been given permission to wear one (sort of like being presented with an honorary degree), then you will have a very difficult time making a case for how wearing one is anything other than disrespectful,” Vowel wrote.”
– Huffington Post, Osheaga Music Festival Bans Native Headdresses.
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