Good grief!------Students who built teepee for art class called offensive; outcry prompts its removal

Students who built teepee for art class called offensive; outcry prompts its removal
Students at Santa Barbara City College who built a large, colorful teepee for their art class have been denounced as offensive and ignorant by some students on campus, clamor that ultimately prompted the structure to be removed.

The students are enrolled in the school’s “4-D Art, Time-Based Media” class, which “explores issues and practices of … interactive and chance-derived work, installation, performance, video, sound and digital media,” according to the course description.campus!”...

But the structure was denounced by some American Indian students, who said they viewed the teepee as offensive and culturally insensitive.

“I think it’s very insensitive of the history that was done to Native Americans. 

I believe that SBCC faculty condones this type of behavior,” an anonymous student told Native News Online. 

“We constantly have to live with disrespect. 
Since I was attending the ‘number one community college’ I would have the right to be free of stereotypes. This is an act of superiority for non-Native students and I will not and am not okay with it.”