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Tech Noir
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minty
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yeh that article's not a surprise. a ton of stupid n aggravating shit went on in the "go west young man!" period.
y'know how it's a trope some white women will "rescue" an animal that's mindin' its own business off a porch to make themselves feel better cuz their life aint fulfilling?
they used to do that with native kids. also orientalized them in art n shit too
Tech Noir
Tech Noir
Orientalized? Explain.
minty
minty
the colonizers lured ppl out there with the concept of the "american zahara" (sahara).
there's an entire short book on it. read it in a course back in grad school

Go east, young man: imagining the American West as the Orient

Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the West-in other words, portrayal of the West as the 'Orient'--has been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer...
mountainscholar.org mountainscholar.org
see the front page art they even painted a feather indian woman to mirror a dot-head indian woman.
fetishization of a shiny, new, weird culture and its exotic women.

iirc dude talked abt this in one of the apache videos how didn't matter source of tribe to "preserve culture" they did photosets of random natives in headdresses n leathers or on horseback regardless if they were coastal or plains
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