2 men charged after pretending to be Native American to sell art at Pike Place Market
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2021
- Two western Washington artists face up to five years in prison after being charged with pretending to be Native American carvers to sell goods at Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle.
The investigation into the two men, 67-year-old Jerry Chris Van Dyke (aka Jerry Witten) of Seattle and 52-year-old Lewis Anthony Rath of Maple Falls, began in early 2019, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
In February 2019, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, which helps American and Alaskan Natives through the expansion of the Indian arts and crafts market, received a complaint about Van Dyke representing himself as a Nez Perce Indian artist.
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News flash: popular Seattle tourist trap turns out to be a tourist trap!
Is that illegal ?? Wtf .
Yes, & it should be. Please consider: Cultural appropriation has long been a problem: colonial white Americans began taunting, mimicking, & reproducing lowbrow trailer-park versions of our cultures from the very beginning & trying to pass it off as authentic. When one considers white American colonial policies like fraudulent treaties, massacres, rapes, forced removal, wars of extermination, poisoning food rations, forced assimilation, forced surgical sterilization, etc., forging Native art appears to become part of a larger policy of genocide committed against indigenous Americans. Maybe you could show your opposition to these historical wrongs by purchasing what's right! Why would anyone want a forged piece anyway?
All I have to say is that how can that be when natives can sell American jewelry and it’s ok! Maybe impersonating is a crime but selling any races jewelry should be legal for every race! Please treat every race the same! Completely unfair!
My friend, that is an uneducated comment. Native Americans are American citizens ("Americans"), but 99 percent of American citizens ("Americans") are non-Native, meaning you recently colonized us from other continents. Moreover, cultural appropriation has long been a problem: colonial white Americans began taunting, mimicking, & reproducing lowbrow trailer-park versions of our cultures from the very beginning & trying to pass it off as authentic. When one considers white American colonial policies like fraudulent treaties, massacres, rapes, forced removal, wars of extermination, poisoning food rations, forced assimilation, forced surgical sterilization, etc., forging Native art appears to become part of a larger policy of genocide committed against indigenous Americans. Maybe you could show your opposition to these historical wrongs by purchasing what's right!
Perhaps the artists identified as indigenous.
my first thought lol
As do I
IT"S A HATE CRIME! OMG
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Maybe it should be. Please consider: Cultural appropriation has long been a problem: colonial white Americans began taunting, mimicking, & reproducing lowbrow trailer-park versions of our cultures from the very beginning & trying to pass it off as authentic. When one considers white American colonial policies like fraudulent treaties, massacres, rapes, forced removal, wars of extermination, poisoning food rations, forced assimilation, forced surgical sterilization, etc., forging Native art appears to become part of a larger policy of genocide committed against indigenous Americans. Maybe you could show your opposition to these historical wrongs by purchasing what's right!
Shop at Eighth Generation.
What if they were from Latin America. There is no tribal membership in Mexico central or South America because most are at least 37%-100% native
It's the "American Indian Arts and Crafts Act," and doesn't extend to non-U.S Natives
Life sentences, right now… Murderers and thieves, meh…
That space is saved for Chief Five Barrels...
Their art work still looks nice i like it.