Hmong And Native American: Tribal Gypsies, Textiles, Embroidery, Etc
I have a question for all you lovely people on this website…. How do you feel when someone is selling something that is a Hmong and/or Native American product and call it “Tribal Gypsies, Tribal Textiles, Tribal Embroidery, etc.…?” Do you get offended? Should they call it Tribal _____? Or should they call it what it is? For example: Look at this picture. Www.Facebook.Com. It is Hmong but the person “selling” these is calling it Tribal Gypsies. Should this person call it Tribal Gypsies or should the person call it Hmong ornaments (or whatever it is supposed to be)? Same thing for this picture: Www.Facebook.Com. It is Native American but is called Tribal Gypsies.
Me personally, I kinda feel like it takes away who we are. There is no recognition of the people. I understand that we are a tribal people but there are many tribal people out there. Those who don’t know or don’t recognize the design will mistake it for another group of people. Ya’ll know what I mean? So how do you feel and what do you think about this?
I’m curious too now, I wanna know what is a Tribal Gypsies. Growing up my parents had a heart ornament just like that hanging on their rear view mirror just like many hmong families.
Suzee – Yep, my gma had them too. I used to play with them all the time. So how do you feel about what they call it these products? Should they be calling them “tribal ___” or should they acknowledge where it came from (Like how made them, etc..)?
It looks like they are selling these items at a street fair and that’s totally fine but they should acknowledge where it came from n give the people created. For sure we know its Hmong.
Suzee – I agree. They definitely need to acknowledge and give credit where it’s due.
Never heard of a Tribal Gypsies before. I know tribes were nomadic, but never heard of any natives being gypsies.
Wth! Tribal gypsies? Who ever is selling this needs to get slap.. if they gonna try to sale n make money out of our culture stuff at least learn something of our back ground first to be more precise. Whe I think of gypsies o think of Esmeralda in the “hunch back of notre dame” and no we are certainly not those kind.