One of our purchases at Powwow last weekend was this Barbie from Native Bebe. She had a number of dolls and some in sweet moss bags. Runa got a Jasmine Barbie in a jingle dress last year and I couldn't resist this one. The post modern beauty of the ultimate European princess in a jingle dress - the frozen girl herself - her very emotions frozen like the world around her. Could you be any more Scandinavian? I also liked this doll as a reminder that even though my girls are pretty pale skinned they can show their metis pride. Plus this is a fun imagination of the metis blending of the European and indigenous dress. At the same time I can see how someone might see this as consuming the other and the white princess co-opting a culture that is not her own. I thought this girl would give us a lot to talk and think about over the years. What do you think? Post-modern awesomeness or consumption of the other?
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