- Let's just get this over with.
(pop music)
- I've never really been a big fan of Halloween.
- I love Halloween. Who doesn't love getting dressed up?
- I sort of always dread this time of year
because of racist costumes.
- I'm so nervous. I'm so nervous.
- Oh my god, what? "Tribal Temptation".
- Oh sweet Jesus. Well right off the bat
the first thing I noticed is the axe because we're savages.
- "Chief Hottie Body" I don't even want to say that.
That feels wrong.
- Haha, "Indian Brave"
and I love the fact that the Indian Brave
is portrayed by somebody who
looks incredibly like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- This is ridiculous. It's like a little black dress.
- I feel like I need a really big shower
after wearing this crap.
- I cant even- I cant say anything
- I feel frustrated that this costume exists.
- What is this even made of?
- I think it's supposed to look like suede or animal skin.
- Accuracy, on a scale of one to ten
is like negative four thousand.
- I don't believe there are any headbands
that have the feather in the front like this.
- When you see beads on an actual pow-wow dress
every single pattern means something.
- A costume like this keeps Native Americans in the past
as if we're not real people today.
- There's a medicine- a jingle dress-
and everything on that dress means something.
They put a prayer into every cone
before they attach it to the dress.
- There actually feels like there's something
pretty disrespectful about wearing a people group
as a costume.
- You're not dressing up as a Viking or an ancient Roman,
those people aren't around anymore
and this is still very real to us.
- Because it's so inaccurate it almost feels like a joke.
Like someone's making fun of me and all of the things
my people fought and died to hold on to.
- I actually belong to the Sioux nation
and you don't get to tell me
that this isn't offensive.
- I don't think anybody's making these costumes
to be deliberately racist.
- I actually think I have more of an authority
to tell you when it's offensive and that sort of thing
because I've lived with this my entire life.
- So if somebody of the people group
is telling you that it's wrong
that should be enough for you.
- Dad, I'm sorry!