Robert Gehrke : It’s 2017, but people in Utah still put on ‘redface’ for an inaccurate re-creation of an American Indian vs. Mormon battle - The Salt Lake Tribune

11.9.17

Gehrke: It’s 2017, but people in Utah still put on ‘redface’ for an inaccurate re-creation of an American Indian vs. Mormon battle - The Salt Lake Tribune: “We don’t do blackface but we’re still doing these kinds of things throughout the United States,” said James Singer, the co-founder of the Utah League of Native American Voters who teaches sociology at Westminster College and Salt Lake Community College.

“It’s absolutely appalling. I don’t know how we can be so completely insensitive,” he said. “Even in this time when it’s OK to be politically incorrect in the age of Trump, people who profess to value their neighbors and how they feel disregard it when it starts to encroach on their own actions.”

Thousands turned out Monday on the baseball field behind Wellsville’s old elementary school for the culturally tone-deaf cowboys and Indians spectacle that all hinges on a brazen rewriting of history.