Local Indigenous community says it's an inappropriate use of Native Indian culture
A month ago, during one of her frequent drives past Lake Cuyamaca, Emily Burgueno noticed something disturbing alongside the road — three large tipis painted with images of buffalo, deer and wolves.
She and other community members are asking for them to be removed, saying using them as rentals is cultural appropriation of Native American heritage.“They’re not trying to educate with these structures, they are profiting off these structures,” she said of the district. “We’ve been watching the internet and saw that they were very likable,” he said, adding that the district wanted “to rent them out as a novel thing that would be different from regular tent camping, RV camping, sleeping cabins and cabins.
“It is detrimental to Native communities because it erases the significance of different cultural items or cultural regalia, and it also reflects these other histories of colonization and conquest,” said Chilcote, assistant professor of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University and a member of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians.— Kumeyaay for “the water behind the clouds” — the lake is a sacred place for the community, Bernice Paipa said.
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