Nude Navajo model
Someone sent me this link in response to Finding Native Porn: the first known example of a full-blooded Indian nude model:
Taj PassionYe'ee'teeh (Hello). Here is a story about my Life. I was born in the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners area of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Tuba City was where I popped out of my mom's belly. I am full-blooded Navajo. ... The beautiful areas of the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley were like my backyard. No matter where life takes me, the plateau will always be my home.
After modeling in competitions and submitting my pictures to different agencies, I finally got my big break. I was offered a contract to star in my own website. I saw it as an opportunity to try something exciting and different. ... I was surprised how comfortable I was posing and being relaxed and natural in front of the camera. ... It's fun feeling pretty, beautiful, and sexy. Comment: The Indian princess as the white man's exotic object of sexual gratification lives!
Translating this writeup from Taj-speak into English, we get the following: "I was so desperate for success that I sold out everything my culture respects and honors. I changed my name, got a boob job, and agreed to pose nude for money."
The only thing missing from this site is Taj posing in a loincloth and chief's headdress. I wonder why she hasn't implemented this obvious money-making idea. I guess she has principles.
I'd love to hear what the defenders of the Rez Dog calendar, Redskin magazine, and similar projects have to say about this. Just another example of a liberated Native woman celebrating her strength and independence? Another role model for Native girls to admire and emulate? Hm-mm...sure it is.
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Taj Passion
After modeling in competitions and submitting my pictures to different agencies, I finally got my big break. I was offered a contract to star in my own website. I saw it as an opportunity to try something exciting and different. ... I was surprised how comfortable I was posing and being relaxed and natural in front of the camera. ... It's fun feeling pretty, beautiful, and sexy.
Translating this writeup from Taj-speak into English, we get the following: "I was so desperate for success that I sold out everything my culture respects and honors. I changed my name, got a boob job, and agreed to pose nude for money."
The only thing missing from this site is Taj posing in a loincloth and chief's headdress. I wonder why she hasn't implemented this obvious money-making idea. I guess she has principles.
I'd love to hear what the defenders of the Rez Dog calendar, Redskin magazine, and similar projects have to say about this. Just another example of a liberated Native woman celebrating her strength and independence? Another role model for Native girls to admire and emulate? Hm-mm...sure it is.
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posted by Rob at 3:00 PM
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The Love Doll Syndrome
Native women (much like Asian women, as there exists such a close physical resemblance between the two races) have always been highly prized by white males as the ultimate in cute little love dolls, perpetually available for the white man's sexual pleasure.
Even the fabled General George Armstrong Custer had a Native love doll during his initial foray period into the Great Plains; her name was "Yellow Bird" and she was about 13 years old or so at the time she functioned as Custer's paramour.
In the Great Age of European Exploration and Conquest throughout the world, indigenous women were quite often taken as "companions" by the leadership of a multitude of expeditions into the Great Unknown. In both North and South America, young females (most of them in their teens and even younger) were simply given away as gifts, peace tokens or traded for so much as a handful of colorful beads or just outright abducted). But, it was not only military officers who indulged their cravings for "undercooked red meat" in the Americas as an unknown number of mountain men, fur trappers, cowboys and general ruffians also came by their "squaws" just as easily (witness the movies, "Jeremiah Johnson" with Robert Redford, "The Mountain Men" with Charlton Heston and "Chato's Land" with Charles Bronson that strongly glorify these putrid cultural transactions).
I came across this information about Custer's penchant for "stockade bait" several years ago when I collected some oral histories of the Northern Plains Indians that were related to me by some of the last of the full-bloods of various tribes in that region. And I trust the stories of my elders much more so than any "research' or casual anecdotes dispensed by any white historians or anthropologists. So, the great general was also a pedophile, among other things.
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"Booty-licious!"
The young Navajo lady featured will probably go the route of the vast majority of her non-Native sisters who start their "careers" by posing for nude pics. First, there will be a few good years in the porn industry where she will undoubtedly be exposed to a series of greed-driven managers, drug and alcohol-fueled "industry" parties where she will most likely become addicted to an assortment of substances, a multitude of unsafe sexual encounters in the course of filming (to include HIV, a widespread occupational hazard in the porn world) and by the time she's 30, she'll be so used up that Superfly could not even pimp her out. Ah, but she did make a few white boys happy during her brief run. Or she could end up the way the only Native woman I've ever met who was "in a few films" did - found dead in a big city alleyway with her breasts sliced off.
"Asian" is not a race. The people of India are not very much racially like those of China. Nor are those of Israel much like those of Thailand. Nor are those of Turkey much like those of Korea.
"In the Great Age of European Exploration and Conquest throughout the world, indigenous women were quite often taken as "companions" by the leadership of a multitude of expeditions into the Great Unknown...."
This kind of thing is well documented all the way to and including Columbus.
"...So, the great general was also a pedophile, among other things."
As was Columbus.
Re: "Asian women" - Please allow me to clarify - Asian in the U.S. demographic sense - or, more specifically, per the classification of Asian women as they appear on today's porn sites -and as traditional objects of desire in the American popular imagination.
Respectfully, (& w/a hat tip)
MM (Lakota Nation)
"Asian" is the term commonly used to classify the people formerly known as "Oriental." In this context it refers to the race, not the entire continent.
Thanks for the info, Melvin. In addition to Malibu Barbie and Caribou Barbie, we now have a Navajo Barbie.
When are people just people? When can a native american artist just be an artist? Why does she have to indian before she's a person? She doesn't play to the standard fantasies, can't she be just another girl who takes off her clothes? Sometimes i think we look to hard on the races. Did you vote for a black president or did you vote for the better president. That's just an example, i don't care who you voted for.
To anonymous:
The type of carrieer she chosed (if she really choosed it herself and was not coerced into it) are as bad whatever the race of the girl. It will end in the same human tragedy.
It is not so easy as just taking of her clothes.
oh, fuck off you pretentious bastard. What gives you the right to look down on her, and what gives some white man the right to stick his nose into native american matters anyhow
If you're referring to me, Anonymous, I don't need anyone's permission to write about Native matters. If I did, Natives would give me their permission, since they overwhelmingly support my work.
If you don't like this blog, feel free to get lost. No one asked you for your opinion of my opinion.
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