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‘There is no room for compromise’
An “all-female Polynesian dance group” at Yale University stands accused of “appropriating Hawaiian and Tahitian culture,” with a campus Native American student organization demanding that the dance group disban.
This past weekend the Association of Native Americans at Yale criticized the dance group, known as Shaka, for “sexualizing and homogenizing Native [American] peoples, misrepresenting and erasing histories and political realities, and attempting to depoliticize inherently political culture and communities under colonial subjugation,” according to The Yale Daily News.
The Native American group also distributed a flyer stating that the members of the Polynesian dance group are “not Native Hawaiian or Polynesian” and thus cannot “‘claim to do Native cultural practice’.”
full story at http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/39678/