Review of Rites of Passage

Rites of Passage film horribly offensive in how Native women are objectified sexually, and how First Nations Peoples are objectified and exploited. This film encourages and excuses violence perpetuated against Native women and Native people, which has the highest statistics of all ethnic groups...it makes GAP pathetic "want to be" designers like McNairy OK with shirts that celebrate ethnic cleansing. It is repulsive that anyone would want to defend this film or be proud of it. There should be a meeting with a delegation of Chumash Elders to discuss how inappropriate and exploitive this film is. There should be a stop to the distribution of this film, the film itself should be burned not only because of the cultural prostitution involved with it but also because of the bad acting in it- AIM Southern California