Word: navajoized
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...Thankfully, Take That didn't take to the stage to try to justify their best live act win. The artists who did were many things - thrilling, confusing, off-key - but never boring. With help from Klaxons (whose wardrobe could only be described as futuristic Navajo) Rihanna performed a dark, brooding emo-dance version of her hit Umbrella. On the opposite end of the pop spectrum, Kylie's rendition of her latest single Wow was all bright and shiny, totally making up for the unfortunate Joan Rivers-esque hairstyle and a dress so slinky the only dancing she could manage...
...dedication to her Native American culture doesn’t stop there. In typical Bostonian fashion, Youpee-Roll applies her interests to the city’s defining feature: the Red Sox. Youpee-Roll focuses her attention on Native American Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, whose mother is Navajo. “If Ellsbury is traded [to the Twins], I’ll have to move to Minnesota,” Youpee-Roll jokes. Wherever she lives, Youpee-Roll is sure to keep her home and her identity (and perhaps her Wii?) close to her heart...
...modeled on a motif found on a pre-Columbian tunic from Peru's central coast - to $2,500 for a one-of-a-kind Native American sterling silver and green turquoise necklace featuring a pendant called a naja, the Navajo word for crescent. www.brooklynmuseum.org...
With the fur trapper and wilderness scout Kit Carson as his focus, Sides has constructed a heartbreaking history of three cultures in the Southwest--American Indians, Mexicans and Americans--during and after the Mexican-American war, an age of bloody confrontations in which the Navajo would be all but swept away...
...inappropriate to have these mascots representing native people—they don’t,” said Carmen D. Lopez, a member of the Navajo nation and the executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program. “I think they are legacies of stereotypes and really portray native peoples in caricatures,” she said. “It’s part of an American myth that we need to rectify...