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Based on Dead Pioneer’s first single, Bad Indian represents the exhaustive critique of being an Indigenous person in America. With each interaction is a question or an assumption that is rooted in American stereotypes of Native peoples. Articulated with humor, sarcasm and a healthy amount of punk driven f**k you’s, Bad Indian is a good representation of Native people not living up to the expectations given based on the perception of Indigenous existence, only to answer with Indigenous reality. ]

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