Comparing "Shame On!" and "Lovely Hula Hands"

Ani Par
Response #8


In “Shame On!” we see Chrystos throwing colonization back in the face of the colonizers and exposing the way in which Native peoples are constantly being demoralized through the belittlement of their culture. Trask argues that though Natives of Hawai’i have been exploited through tourism for both their culture and their land, they are slowly starting to reverse the process of colonization through resistance to the industry; however, many are raised believing that they are not being oppressed.
Chrystos, like in “I Am Not Your Princess”, revisits the view that the colonizers have taken on about Natives and covers the portrayal of the poor begging Native and how whites mock the culture with fake relics, faux cheap Indian enlightenment and made up ceremonies. Society does not have to exploit natives if they were to just to act similarly to Natives in regards to sharing, respecting, and acting towards equality, she implies in her final lines.
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