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Lost in Translation: Germany’s Fascination With the American Old West

There are a group of Germans in Germany that are very much obsessed with Native American culture. It’s called indianthusiam and it comes from Carl May literature. He wrote books about an Apache warrior and his German friend. Germans fell in love with what they perceived to be accurate native culture even though it’s not, and now dress up as Native Americans or indigenous people with full regalia and have powwows. The problem is, they don’t fully understand Native American, and indigenous culture

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