The Super Bowl fever is not over yet, more than a week after the Kansas Chiefs were crowned the absolute winners of the NFL’s Vince Lombardi Trophy, after defeating the San Francisco 49ers, both teams continue to give something to talk about .
On this occasion, the current champions were harshly criticized by actress Lily Gladstone, as she claims that they “misrepresent” the Native American peoples.
The Oscar nominee for the film “Killers of the Flower Moon”, during her participation in the Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast, criticized the name of the team (Bosses in Spanish); However, she assured that what bothers her most, as a member of a native community, is the so-called “tomahawk chop” that her fans perform.
“There are many ways you can interpret the term ‘boss.’ It’s not the name that bothers me. It’s hearing that damn ‘tomahawk chop,'” he said.
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In this gesture, which is done to show support for the players, fans use their arm to simulate the movement of a tomahawk, a battle ax used by different tribes, and which is accompanied by a cry very similar to war songs. from the same.
For Lily, this celebration is a reminder of the dehumanization that the industry has done to her people, because in the films set in the Old West, although the native communities were represented, their true members were not taken into account: “we were not playing ourselves, or if we did, we were just background actors,” he explained.
He even asked that the team take responsibility in this regard and sent a message to his fans: “”It’s fantastic to love the game and your players, but it still hurts,” he added.
But Gladstone not only went after the Chiefs, he also went after their rivals, the 49ers, because the team’s name, he said, “is based on the California Gold Rush, which was an incredibly brutal time for California natives.” “.
According to American history, the so-called ‘gold rush’ developed between 1848 and 1855, when news of the presence of this metal spread throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the rest of America. In 1849, a large number of immigrants arrived in the vicinity of San Francisco, with the sole objective of searching for gold and thus making a great fortune. These first prospectors were called forty-niners (forty-niners, in Spanish).
The extraction of this metal meant a great economic opportunity for the city, but it also brought harsh consequences to the natives of these lands, who were massacred and forced to leave their villages.
Although the San Francisco team has not spoken about it, those from Kansas, on several occasions, have denied that their name is affiliated with native culture; They even explain on their official website that they were named this way in honor of Mayor H. Roe Bartle, who in 1963 “played a decisive role in attracting the American Football League franchise” to the city, and who was nicknamed like a boss”.
For her part, Gladstone has already left a mark in film history, being the first native actress nominated in the Best Actress category at the Oscars.
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2024-02-20 03:01:18
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