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re: Not sure- song list inside; maybe that will help?

Posted by:	Michael_Portantiere 03:13 pm EDT 10/28/15
In reply to:	re: Not sure- song list inside; maybe that will help? - JereNYC 02:52 pm EDT 10/28/15

"Yeah, I kind of think native Americans need to give stuff like this a pass. This is a 1946/1966 view of how 19th Century folks would talk. And, honestly, 'Indians' is probably the kindest word that real people of the time would have had for native Americans." I have very mixed feelings on this. Yes, the lyrics about "indians" in "Colonel Buffalo Bill" are, I'm sure, exactly the way most people thought of Native Americans in 1946, not to mention at the time when the action of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN takes place. And I'm sure that's how they were presented in Buffalo Bill's "wild west" show. Also, I agree that the rewrite of the lyric as presented here is awful. But --aside from calling them "Indians," the song refers to Native Americans as the aggressors killing white people, when history tells us that the truth of what happened is pretty much the opposite. And it's very difficult for modern audiences of enlightened people to accept that, even if we keep telling ourselves, "It's a period piece."

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