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 OLakes 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 peoples 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 OLakes 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 companys 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? [ ]
Mias vanishing has prompted a social media meme: They Got Rid of The Indian and Kept the Land. That isnt too far from the truth. Mia, the stereotype that wasnt, leaves behind a landscape voided of identity and history. For those of us who are American Indian, its a history that is all too familiar.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Just mention you edited it or don’t touch it.
Hmm?
I remember the Springmaid Sheet ad with an attractive Native American girl and guy with the caption "A Buck Well Spent on a Springmaid Sheet".
Fauxcahontas lead Social Justice Tribe.
Give-um small pox blankets to symbols of Native American heritage.
Erase Red Man from history.
Yup. I was wondering if that would be mentioned....
It’s a perverse set of mirror universe standards that are being created now. I told my wife - her grandfather was full-blooded Cherokee and her grandmother half Cherokee, and both lived on a reservation out west - and she just rolled her eyes and said, “Are you effing kidding me? OK, stop buying Land OLakes and get the store brand, as long as it’s real butter.” Here she is, part Cherokee herself, and she’s had it up to here with all this politically correct BS with Native American this and Indian Rights that. She wanted to punch Elizabeth Warren right in the snotbox for her whole Fauxcahontas yarn. The problem is, even if the backlash is massive, the damage is already done.
You changed the article.
Will it become a collector's item?
Is value hurt if I have already removed a stick of butter?
Well said.
My husband, an American Indian (what they call themselves when they’re not trying to be political) says that the picture of the Indian maiden is what made Land o Lakes butter special.
I noticed now that the website is blocking most of the article now. More paywall tricks.
As a REAL Native American (rather than a 100% PHONY like “LYING LIZ” Warren) and a living direct descendant of Pocahontas, daughter of Deep Stream & his first wife Little Fawn, I do NOT understand this FOOLISHNESS by the smallest of minorities within the whole of Native People that DESPISE any representation of an Amer-Indian as somehow “JUST WRONG” or RACIST or any of several other possibilities..
Personally, I think that they should just CLOSE THEIR MOUTH, tend to their own business & GO AWAY.
Yours, TMN78247
Member, Pamunkey Nation
I am still mad they removed the chief from the Savage rifle line.
I knew there had to be others that have seen/done that.
Reminds me of one of those old bawdy postcards in the 1950s. A wore out warrior is going from tent to tent with a sweet young maiden at the door of each.
The caption was.. “Having a wonderful time on vacation, but a buck sure don’t last long around here!”
It doesnt matter, Bob.
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I’m surprised the Compost let Bob publish this.
Im surprised the Compost let Bob publish this.
Why? Theyre mocking him to his face.
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I’ve heard that Land of Lakes and “I can’t Believe it’s Not Butter” are merging and they want to use Elisabeth Warren for their spokesperson. That’s just what I heard.
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