Review of Buffalo Dance

I have been to many pow wows in real life, but I have never seen a Native American dancer with a giant set of black tail feathers sticking up from his butt a mile high like the chunky dancer in this short Edison film. The other two dancers have more recognizable feather gear, in the form of about two head feathers each. The dancer in the forefront most often takes a lower, almost snakish approach to his performance, which put me in mind of some of the old Warners Brothers cartoons portraying Native Americans as savages who could slither like eels to sneak up on the white folk that we used to watch in the trailer growing up when the babysitter was over. Ten generations of kids have been exposed to those cartoons, which you still can buy sets of in the dollar stores for a buck, so it stands to reason that the original animators of these films may have been drawn from the preceding five generations of kids who were exposed to these Edison Kinetographs growing up. I guess therez a saying that what goes around comes around.

P.S.--Drummers never get any respect. I know from my pow wow experience that Native Americans do not dance without drumming, but from the information on this site you would have no idea that there are 2 NI drummers behind the 3 dancers in this flick!