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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's offensive.  I think that it's honoring--she wants to be a Native American, not to make fun of it, but because she is interested in it and likes the idea of it.

And her idea of it may be childish, but she is a child, and this is all about imagination--imagining being a Native American in the past, and with that opens the door to empathy.  If it's shut down, then why be curious about what it's like to be something other than what she is?  That just perpetuates the 50s "Dick and Jane-- we are all white and girls are all blonde" mentality.

My DDs read the AWESOME American Girl historical book set on "Kaya," and when they were OPs daughter's age, each of them wore some sort of outfit like this.  My oldest is a savvy teen now, so I think if she dressed up at all, she would not do something like this for Halloween due to sensitivity, but that too is age-appropriate![/quote]
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If she's genuinely interested and wants to "honor" Native Americans (who are clearly a big homogeneous blob, despite consisting of thousands of tribes with millennia of history), then she should care enough to do a modicum of research.

What I'm hearing from OP is that her 7 year-old has a costume she really wants to wear, so she's slapping this "It's Sacagawea" idea onto it, despite the dress being nothing like what Sacagawea would have worn. OP knows that dressing up as another culture (one that still exists, by the way) is inappropriate, and likely so does her daughter. 
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I think this PP nailed it. If it is a specific person, she designs her costume around that person's known garb and distinguishing style. Otherwise she's trying to make something up to cover up the stereotypical costume's problems. I get it, OP's DD wants to wear her outfit but it isn't appropriate to wear it on Halloween. [/quote]

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