Pepper Ann (TV Series)
Dances with Ignorance/Girl Power (1999)
April Winchell: Lydia Pearson, Grandma Lillian, Millicent the Militant, Additional Voices
Quotes
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Lydia : [preparing a Thanksgiving dinner] Are you sure they're going to want to eat all this food? I mean it is only September.
Pepper Ann : Mom, haven't you seen the pictures of the first Thanksgiving? This is the authentic food of my people.
Lydia : But Peppie, the American Indians who participated in the first Thanksgiving were Algonquins, not Navajos.
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Carol : Pepper Ann, your braided hair looks like it might be Lakoda, Navajo men and women traditionally wear their hair twisted into a chongo, a figure-8 shape...
Pepper Ann : Yeah, I was going for a kind of Pocahontas thing, but it kind of turned into more of a Sporty Spice...
Bob : Pepper Ann, I think you need to understan...
Lydia : Who wants corn on the cob?
Pepper Ann : Please excuse my paleface mother, she means maize.
Lydia : Uh... sure has been hot lately. Hot... and... dry.
Pepper Ann : Now you're talking! Who's up for a little rain dance?
[dances around whooping]
Bob : Enough! Do you have any idea how offensive this is to our culture? I thought you invited us here to learn about being Navajo.
Pepper Ann : Totally. I want to learn how to sneak up on people without them hearing, how to give gifts and then take them right back again. All that good stuff.
Bob : Everyone, the car, NOW!