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Re: No more steel in jolly old England
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lugnet.castle
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Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:37:20 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Tony A. Rowe writes:
> In lugnet.castle, James Jackson writes:
> > Jeff, mon ami, If Knights' Kingdom represents France, why oh why, are they
> > waving flags similar to the Scottish bars (although the X is gold instead of
> > white)? Eventually, they'll represent my kinfolk, the Irish. Oh, I could see • it
> > now, a little brown-skinned Irish minifig, putting in Princess Storm in her
> > place.... (Having trouble seeing black Irish folk? Think Ivar from Mystic
> > Knights.) They already have tried their hand at my other kinfolk, the Native
> > Americans (Cherokee to be precise...).
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> Well James, I am not sure if TLG was trying to represent a specific American
> Indian tribe (I doubt it), but these minifigs don't look like they are wearing
> traditional Cherokee styles of clothing. For one thing, Cherokee men would
> normally wear a sort of turban on their heads, not feathered headdresses.
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> Tony
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> Another Cherokee and Irish AFOL
I didn't mean that TLG's "Indians" were specifically Cherokee, I meant that I
am specifically a Cherokee descendant. As far as I know, they were going for a
basic Southwestern "Indian" design.
-- James J.
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| (...) it (...) Well James, I am not sure if TLG was trying to represent a specific American Indian tribe (I doubt it), but these minifigs don't look like they are wearing traditional Cherokee styles of clothing. For one thing, Cherokee men would (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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