Their work sometimes parodies popular depictions of Native American culture, like in their latest video in which the 1491s are mostly-naked and auditioning to be part of Twilight's wolf pack. The group has a sizeable following, with more than 100,000 views on their most popular YouTube videos.
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The 1491s describe themselves as "a gaggle of Indians chock full of cynicism and splashed with a good dose of indigenous satire." But they also classify themselves as activists. That's what we're doing - killing people," he joked.
"It's easier to say something, when you're making somebody laugh, rather than punching them in the face," Harjo said. On Thanksgiving especially, this "Indian humor" is out in full force, according to Sterlin Harjo, a member of the 1491s, a Native American comedy troupe. Humor is a tool which many in the Native American community use to push back against forms of oppression. Pleasant, an assistant professor who teaches Native American history at Yale University, Thanksgiving is "problematic" in part because the holiday "is predicated on the forceful appropriation of American Indian people's homelands and the devastation of tribal nations." She says that it is with this irony in mind that some in the Native American community jokingly refer to Thanksgiving as "You're Welcome Day." Still other American Indians call it "Thanks-taking Day." But some Native Americans don't remember it as fondly.Īccording to Alyssa Mt. 21, 2012 — - This week, little boys and little girls around the country will don stereotypical pilgrim and Native American costumes to act out the happy story of the first Thanksgiving harvest.
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