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Town Destroyer | Cultural Appropriation
Why is America secretly obsessed with Native Americans? Author Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche), who is the curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, walks through an exhibit featuring American icons like Elvis, Cher and Barbie and other recognizable pieces of American culture that appropriates Native American names and clothing or created an image of a "savage" Indian.
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