A website called www.i-dressup.com allows girls to make their own paper dolls and dress them in just about any fashion imaginable to later print them off. This site offers at least three places where ANY little girl can easily become Native American with a few clicks of a mouse. Little girls can dress up for a "Traditional" Thanksgiving, compete in a Native Fashion Battle or do it up old school. Located in the comments section the closest I could see to any sort of objection to this sort of thing was a couple of sad face emoticons. I have said it time and time again but this sort of tribally generic imagery reinforces the thought that Native Americans are a part of the past and don't have a place in the present or the future. The plunging necklines and short skirts do nothing but continue to sexualize Native American women which is harmful and damaging to the self esteem and sense of identity of young women nation wide.
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