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Santa wore his long grey braids and traditional red robe-turned-regalia over the weekend, greeting children and adults alike at the newly opened First Americans Museum in the heart of Oklahoma City. Behind him was a digital screen showing a downpouring of snow over his sleigh, pulled by eight bison.
"Kids were really excited to see a Santa Claus that might look like their uncle," First Americans Museum spokesperson, Ginny Underwood (Comanche), told Native News Online."The premise is: representation matters. We wanted to create a Santa Claus that our Indigenous folks could identify with, and that other people (could) get an understanding of our diversity and our take on what a Santa Claus might look like."
The event was free and open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, and drew far more adults to snap a photo with Santa than it did children. On Saturday, 75 children-many dressed in their tribe's traditional regalia- and more than double the amount of adults took their photos with Indigneous Santa.
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