MEDIA INDIGENA 207
Added 2020-04-30 21:29:22 +0000 UTCA Bitter Butter Boycott / MI 207
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Butter blowback. With next to no fanfare, the makers of Land O’ Lakes butter has stripped its packaging of a decades-old iconic Indian maiden. Prompting pouts a-plenty from some Settlers who found the switch distasteful—a butter backlash that spread across social media. But, no surprise, #NativeTwitter was more than ready with a flurry of counter-memes.
Joining host/producer Rick Harp to share some of their favorites, plus discuss some of the ambivalent history behind the box, are roundtable regulars Candis Callison, associate professor in the School of Journalism at UBC, and Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, along with special guest Tim Fontaine, the big bird brain behind Walking Eagle News.
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LINKS CONSULTED / REFERENCED THIS EPISODE:
• Land O' Lakes replaces Native American woman logo, touts farmer-owned credentials instead CNN
• There’s another story behind that Land O'Lakes butter box: Indian Country Today
• Finding Indian maidens on eBay: Tales of the alternative archive (and more tales of white commodity culture) Cecily Devereux
• Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses Sonja Livingston
• "...whites who refuse to eat Land o Lakes without the Indian on the front, will you accept ME into your cursed refrigerators?" @janaunplgd
• "Lando Lakes" @soulphoodie
• "The Land 'O Lakes Indian maiden, the only Indian woman gone missing that white America notices, let alone cares about." @TiffanyMidge
• "There's a bunch of white women on this platform who will only eat butter if it has an appropriated racist image on it..." @carolineyezer
• Yum Yum Chips brings back its vintage cartoon aboriginal boy mascot: Canada.com
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