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"Harmless kid fun? Not really! Khloe Kardashian is the latest in a series of celebrities to get in trouble for wearing Native American headdresses deemed by many as offensive. The reality star, 29, wore the feathered getup to her niece North West&amp;#x2019;s first birthday party on Saturday, June 21.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nThe party was called &amp;#x201C;Kidchella&amp;#x201D; after the famous music festival Coachella. Khloe posted a picture sitting cross-legged out by a tipi, writing, &amp;#x201C;Ray of clouds. Chirping of birds. Gurgling of water. Granting desire. One with water. #Kidchella my first Coachella!!!&amp;#x201D;\r\nKhloe&amp;#x2019;s younger sister Kylie Jenner also posted a close up picture of French Montana&amp;#x2019;s girlfriend in the giant decorative headdress on Instagram.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nCliff Matias, the cultural director of the Redhawk Native American Arts Council, spoke to Page Six about Kardashian&amp;#x2019;s culturally costume choice.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;#x201C;It&amp;#x2019;s terrible,&amp;#x201D; he said. &amp;#x201C;It&amp;#x2019;s absolutely terrible that they have no conscience to discontinue to do such things. I just can&amp;#x2019;t believe she would be that insensitive to think it was OK to wear that war bonnet at a kids&amp;#x2019; party &amp;#x2026; Now you have a celebrity at a kids&amp;#x2019; party creating a whole new generation of insensitive thinking.&amp;#x201D;\r\n\r\nThese &amp;#x201C;creative&amp;#x201D; choices have been an on-going problem, with Victoria&amp;#x2019;s Secret model Karlie Kloss wearing a floor-length headdress in the company&amp;#x2019;s 2012 fashion show, No Doubt&amp;#x2019;s 2012 &amp;#x201C;Looking Hot&amp;#x201D; music video (which they pulled from the air for Native American attire), and Pharrell Williams&amp;#x2019; Elle UK&amp;#x2019;s July 2014 issue (which he apologized for).&amp;#xA0;\r\nThese cases, paired with the current fight to get the Redskins football team&amp;#x2019;s name changed, made Khloe&amp;#x2019;s party attire even more inexcusable, according to Matias.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;#x201C;There&amp;#x2019;s no way she&amp;#x2019;s not in tune with what&amp;#x2019;s been happening in the media,&amp;#x201D; he said. &amp;#x201C;I can&amp;#x2019;t even say she&amp;#x2019;s not even aware. But it&amp;#x2019;s also sad. It&amp;#x2019;s really sad that people who are celebrities don&amp;#x2019;t take the responsibility and the understanding that they are trendsetters and they influence people, especially young people. It&amp;#x2019;s a responsibility that I don&amp;#x2019;t think a lot of them acknowledge that they have.&amp;#x201D;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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