So her father is fine with playing an extremely racist and stereotypical Middle Eastern role but not a First Nations role. And, of course, he would always be known as the King of Sparta. But if the part was Native American-it didn’t matter what kind of role it was-Dad turned it down.” ( The Lost Hero, page 165). school, a dashing Israeli spy in an action-adventure blockbuster, even a Syrian terrorist in a James Bond movie. He’d played all kinds of roles-a Latino teacher in a tough L.A. Piper was still trying to figure out why. “The week before, he’d turned down several million dollars to play Tonto in a remake of The Lone Ranger. She's the only First Nations character and she's the only character (besides Nancy Bobofit) depicted as a kleptomaniac (First Nations people are constantly called thieves by racist assholes). It's said that her father was from a reservation in Oklahoma.but there are no reservations in Oklahoma, only cultural centers (which also proves that he did the bare minimum of research). Put a feather in her hair (which is stereotyping)- and it was an eagle feather, which is also wrong because eagles are extremely sacred to First Nation tribes and only spiritual leaders or warriors can wear it or it has to be gifted by an Elder of the tribe, and Riordan basically went 'Feathers are very important and it's racist to make a character wear one at inappropriate times but I'm going to make my character wear one as a cute accessory to make her look cool, pretty, and headstrong and to add to her 'Aesthetic'’ even though Cherokees didn’t wear feathers (which proves he did the bare minimum of research).Ĭonstantly oversexualized (56% of First Nation women are sexually harassed and Riordan had the audacity to put Piper in an 'embarrassingly low v-neck' and to have her constantly drooled over by a WHITE MALE and have her sexualized by her 1000+ mother without her knowledge or consent). Had 'chocolate brown' and then 'mahogany' hair?
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