While I'm thinking like this, I'm not part of the SF/F community and I don't read Patricia Wrede, but I was aware of the MammothFail discussions a couple of weeks ago. I followed RaceFail a little bit but mostly just kind of thought about it. MammothFail--if you Google it you'll get the context better than I can give it--bothered me a whole lot, probably because I used to teach First Nations kids and the complete erasure, without penalty, of their people in this book just pissed me right off. (I read one quote in which the author mentioned that she had to consider the issues around the aboriginal people not being around to "prep the land for human habitation"--think about that for a second.)

And then I got thinking about the Buffy Sainte-Marie show I went to last summer, in which the audience was largely Native. At first I thought Buffy was speaking exclusively to that part of the audience, and then I realized she was simply politely pretending everyone in the room was Native and we all shared the same concerns.

(a) Kind of cool.

(b) A useful experience for the blue-eyed person to have once in a while.

Here's some footage of her singing her new single, "No No Keshagesh." Buffy explains it here.

And she sings it on CBC's Q:



Better with powwow dancers but still damned good.