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My Native American father drew the Land O’Lakes maiden. She was never a stereotype.
Washington Post ^ | April 29, 2020 at 2:56 PM EDT | Robert DesJarlait

Posted on 04/29/2020 7:01:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai

She was never a stereotype.

That was my thought earlier this month when I heard that “Mia,” as the Land O’Lakes Native American maiden was known, had been taken off the butter box. She was gone, vanished, missing. I knew Mia had devolved into a stereotype in many people’s minds. But it was the stereotype some saw that bothered me.

North Dakota state Rep. Ruth Buffalo (D), for instance, told the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minn., that the Land O’Lakes image of Mia went “hand-in-hand with human and sex trafficking of our women and girls … by depicting Native women as sex objects.” Others similarly welcomed the company’s removal of the “butter maiden” as long overdue.

How did Mia go from being a demur Native American woman on a lakeshore to a sex object tied to the trafficking of native women? […]

Mia’s vanishing has prompted a social media meme: “They Got Rid of The Indian and Kept the Land.” That isn’t too far from the truth. Mia, the stereotype that wasn’t, leaves behind a landscape voided of identity and history. For those of us who are American Indian, it’s a history that is all too familiar. …

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TOPICS: Food; Society
KEYWORDS: americanindians; butter; cheese; cooperatives; dairy; food; landolakes; liberalagenda; nativeamericans
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To: Olog-hai

I bought butter yesterday and made sure not to get Land o’ Lakes.


41 posted on 04/29/2020 8:16:58 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat actually gets prosecuted. ))))
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To: mylife

That was from a time when Indians were on coins, had teams named after them. US Army units had Indian motifs. It was a time of respect for anything Indian.

It’s childishness and revolutionary socialism behind this.


42 posted on 04/29/2020 8:17:18 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Olog-hai

most libral are racial identitarians and there for equate the very racism they them selves have as being the motivating force in other.


43 posted on 04/29/2020 8:20:19 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: redgolum

Or Chief Big Wheels...the lovable Chief Wahoo..,
Chief Noc-A-Homa...
Heck they even dropped the Pontiac line


44 posted on 04/29/2020 8:24:49 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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45 posted on 04/29/2020 8:26:24 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: mylife
It was an homage not an insult.

That is usually true in these cases. Of course, insults provide leftists with opportunities for virtue signaling, homages do not.

46 posted on 04/29/2020 8:27:39 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Olog-hai

“... hand-in-hand with human and sex trafficking of our women and girls...”

Yeah, but tribes stopped doing that after the White man took things over. Cannibalism too.


47 posted on 04/29/2020 8:55:13 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Bookmark


48 posted on 04/29/2020 9:19:32 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Olog-hai

As a little girl I thought the Land O’Lakes lady and the Sunmaid Raisins lady were the two most beautiful, serene women. I wondered if they were friends.


49 posted on 04/29/2020 9:29:47 PM PDT by MonicaG (God bless our military! Praying and thanking God for you every day. Thank you!)
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To: Olog-hai

There was a time when American Indian imagery was a common and treasured part of American culture.


50 posted on 04/29/2020 10:03:24 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: Olog-hai

Cultural Marxism is slipping us down the buttery slope.


51 posted on 04/30/2020 12:04:26 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Olog-hai

It is political correctness run amok (as other posts have said).

To me, fiction often occurs in product images. But it should never be taken seriously. Yes, native Americans did not run dairy farms and manufacture butter. So what?

But was the use of the “Indian Maiden” image an intended slight of any native Americans? No.

Land O Lakes was founded in Minnesota. Minnesota is known as the “land of 1,000 lakes”. The Ojibwe tribe is one of the major tribes of Minnesota. It was an Ojibwe artist that drew the “Indian maiden” image for the use of the Land O Lakes company.

Whether or not native Americans made butter, if anything the “Indian maiden” image pays homage to the “native American” history of Minnesota, home of the Land O Lakes company, home of the tribe of the artist that drew the image for Land O Lakes.

The company should not have caved to the political correctness pressure.


52 posted on 04/30/2020 10:20:30 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli
Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

— Communist goal #37
Ironically, Land O’Lakes was a cooperative from its outset, originally named as the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association, so it was always communist-minded. Nobody “caved” here; the merely acted as if it were the right time to do such a thing.
53 posted on 04/30/2020 10:27:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Minnesota has always had lots of Leftists and “progressives”.

The Minnesota party of Hubert Humphrey:

“The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) is a political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is affiliated with the U.S. Democratic Party. Formed by a merger of the Minnesota Democratic Party and the left-wing Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party in 1944”.


54 posted on 04/30/2020 10:38:38 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Two Kids' Dad

I’ve just returned from Publix supermarket here in north Florida.

The butter cooler was pretty much empty, except that there was still be a good supply of Land O’ Lakes left there.

Someone seems to be taking this personal.


55 posted on 04/30/2020 10:52:54 AM PDT by topsail
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To: McGruff

That was a big joke back then, wasn’t it? The box she held was partially cut out, to open like a door. LOL!


56 posted on 04/30/2020 9:44:03 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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