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Saturday, March 12, 2011

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The Navi  are very much a composite of Native American and African cultures. Disturbingly so. I do not think the portrayal is demeaning, but it is so obvious it throws a spanner or monkey-wrench into my attention mill.

The woman priestess or shaman - the mother of the main female character - has an accent that distinctly sounds like she comes from Botswana, and the male chief sounds like Iron Eyes Cody.

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