Mass Senator E. Warren Performs "I'm an Indian, Too" - At Boson County Fair - 18 Sept 2019
   Boson County Fair had a treat when Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for president in 2020, took to the stage in a good-natured  song number poking fun at her cultural appropriation of Native American Indian identity to get a job at Harvard Law School as the "First Woman of Color" despite being a blonde blue-eyed European.     "I'm an Indian Too"  is a song  from the 1946  musical  Annie Get Your Gun , by Irving Berlin . It was originally performed by Ethel Merman . [1]  It is sung by the main character Annie after Sitting Bull adopts her into the Sioux tribe   It is typical of mid-20th-century views of Native Americans , and is sometimes considered racist  and demeaning from a contemporary perspective, although others see it as a mildly satirical  attack on racial stereotyping .  Native Americans did protest outside the New York theatre, as well as  movie theaters, holding picket signs stating:  "Don't See "Annie Get  Your Gun". As ...

 
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