"Cultural Appropriation"

[bennyboy]

Your connection with your Native roots has nothing to do with mine. Moreover, just because your connection is ancient history doesn't mean mine is. You're making excuses to be dismissive of my opinion because you imagine I'm too white to be allowed one. Piss off.

So if you are "native enough" by your genetics, that means that you get to disregard Tizheruk's feelings about his culture, and the icons which represent it? If you are, in fact, native, then you would not be guilty of cultural appropriation, by any definition, for using a symbol associated with your own heritage. So what are you even talking about? If you had come into the thread and said, "I'm native, but I don't think it's a problem if white people own a dream catcher just because they like it," then your view would have been relevant to the discussion I was having with Tizheruk at that time.