“Put their heads off”… “Disney” regrets submitting a racist show

A video clip of a review held in a Walt Disney park in America angered many users of social networking sites, accusing its content of racism towards the “Native American Indians”.
The video shows a team of girls from a high school in Texas performing in a Florida state park, chanting “Scalp Indians, straighten their heads.”
The video also showed the cheerleaders, dressed in fringed clothes, chanting and tapping their mouths in a typical Native American “war cry”.

Cuz a bunch of kids in fringe chanting “scalp ‘em Indians, scalp ‘em” is honor, right?

And any Natives who attend @pngisd should prolly just accept their classmates dehumanizing them cuz “tradition”, right?

Shame on @DisneyParks hosting this. Nostalgic racism is RACISM. pic.twitter.com/ELsJHRgJlw

— tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ (@zhaabowekwe) March 18, 2022

Officials at Walt Disney World issued a statement, expressing their “regret” for the show, and stressing that it “does not reflect our core values, and we regret it happened, and we plan to update the resort’s performance policy in response to the backlash,” according to the Associated Press news agency. .
For his part, a spokesperson for the Port Nechi-Grove High School for Female Students confirmed that the team had presented the show at Walt Disney World 8 previous times, and its content had not been contested before.
While the school principal issued a statement on Twitter last Friday, accusing the training team of using “offensive and stereotypical images of our tribe.”

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief @ChuckHoskin_Jr issues statement in response to offensive depictions by Texas high school cheer team: https://t.co/xx02vto7hI pic.twitter.com/t2VCrbaZV8

— Cherokee Nation (@CherokeeNation) March 18, 2022