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I agree that it's pretty tone-deaf for a non-Native-American person to use a Native American name. But please, don't use misogyny to attack cultural appropriation:

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"I’m talking to you, white girl with a dreamcatcher hanging from your rearview mirror."

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Don't try to set up some enmity between good-guy Native Americans and bad-guy white women.

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...And no, I'm not a white girl with a dreamcatcher. However, at least where I live, dreamcatchers are one of the things that tribal businesses sell to non-tribe-members. If the tribes themselves don't have a problem with people of other races buying dreamcatchers, why should you?

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Also: "people from other races (let’s face it, white people)"... There are black people who use Native American names, too, for probably the same reason as white people do: a combination of admiration and cluelessness. I'll bet some of them also have a Native American ancestor a few generations back and are attempting to pay tribute to that fact.

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I'm sorry; I agree with your basic idea, but I think that combatting past or present wrongs by attacking a particular race or sex is the worst possible approach people can take, and is probably helping fuel the horrific neo-Nazi resurgence.

This message was edited 10/3/2019, 3:06 AM