It's time for Disney to do something about its openly racist portrayal of Indigenous people in 'Peter Pan,' writes Erik Brady for usatodayopinion.
in this version. The site says the reimagined character “is both a fierce warrior and a serene and benevolent leader.”, who is Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota, played Tiger Lily in a similar fashion last winter in a woke production of Peter and Wendy, a play performed for audiences at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, in Washington, D.C. where the team name that mocks her people has long been used unashamedly.
When she arrived in Washington for rehearsals last fall, LaBlanc was shocked to find herself “in a city where that word was everywhere. That word carries a lot of weight for me. It has a violent history in our country. And in Washington it is used so casually.”, wanted a Native woman in the role of Tiger Lily in this modern version of"Peter Pan," in which Wendy wants to grow up to earn a Nobel Prize — and Peter, as ever, doesn’t want to grow up at all.
Gunderson’s play puts all that small-minded burlesque to rest in a story that cleverly places Tiger Lily at the center of the play’s high-flying second act. “I looked out in the audience and recognized it right away,” she says. “In Barrie’s original piece, and in so many Westerns, the R-word is so often used.”
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