“The United States Military Academy honors Native American Heritage Month by reflecting on the their annual ceremony where cadets receive an eagle feather prior to graduation and commissioning.”
USMA public release.
How do we know the cadets in this picture are Indians? What makes them Indians?
What’s different in their lives at West Point from their classmates?
What difference will being Indian make in their service as Army Officers?
If they weren’t Indians, what would they be identified as?
How is their Indian identity determined?
What are the alternative racial stereotypes at West Point?
Why are there any racial categories at West Point?
How many years has there been an “annual ceremony where selected cadets receive an eagle feather prior to graduation and commissioning?” By whose order?
What other racial groups or “cultures” have annual ceremonies where they are selected and honored based on their birth, not any merit? When did they start? By what authority?
What racial groups or cultures would never be allowed to have ceremonies based on circumstances of their birth?
“pyrene”
Former USMA Pointer Magazine Editor
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has proven that the old “just one drop” rule means that being just 1/512, or even 1/1024 ‘native American’ makes you a real, honest-to-goodness Indian. And in this picture we have four very white looking, including three blondes, Indians. 🙂
Then there’s this:
Yes, our future officers are highly trained, and I’ve no doubt that they are courageous, but what battles did they fight in upstate New York?
Prior to the arrival of the Europeans, the Indians fought amongst themselves. In 1615 Samuel De Champlain lead an alliance of Hurons and Algonquin tribes to fight the Iroquois in what becomes NY. Later the Indians fought the Dutch – they murdered Anne Hutchinson when she took refuge in New Amsterdam after the Puritans expelled her from Massachusetts. During our Revolution, Iroquois Confederacy split and fought on both sides. That pretty much ended the Indian fighting in NY. Of course, American patriots fought in upstate NY, if you are referring to them, not the Indians.
Celebrating identity politics is ludicrous enough, but when you have to invent the identity it’s pathetic.
James Atticus Bowden