Monday, May 9, 2011

Um, Not Make Believe.


Spotted this on Pinterest, comes from a company in Omaha called Make Believe Clothing Co. Best part? it's called the "Geronimo" shirt. Here, I wrote them a note, and re-designed their shirt for them:

Dear Make Believe Clothing Company,
You might need to sit down for this news. It might come as a shock. Guess what? American Indians are not "make believe." There are real Indians alive today! Omg, I know, right? Your shirt seems to imply that we're pretend or fantasy characters, so I thought I'd clear that up for you. When I first saw your shirt, I rolled my eyes and sighed really loud in the library. Like this. But then I decided that maybe you weren't totally ignorant, and maybe you were trying to make some sort of social commentary about how this particular stereotyped image of a Native person is make believe and only bears minimal resemblance to the millions of Native peoples alive today, or even to Geronimo. Cause then that would be borderline cool! But you might need to make it a little more explicit. So I decided to help. Here's my version of your shit shirt (typo, oops! lol!) :

Ok thanks. 
                 Sincerely,
                 Adrienne K. (a real, live Indian!)