> i have mixed feelings about over a barrel. that is to say, i think that episode is awful and should never have been made. little strongheart, braeburn and bloomberg are all cute additions to the show's canon, and i think a lesson about comprimise is always good for kids, but WHY would you use colonisation as the backdrop for that lesson??? the murder of indigenous people and the theft of their land is NOT a cute episode in a kid's show. it is completely ridiculous to portray it as 'well actually the buffalo should have learned to share with the ponies but it's okay and everyone is happy and they all ate pie together and were besties'.
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> so, in the fjord-verse, i'm not even going to rework that. but i think having indigenous representation is still good, and i liked little strongheart, so here she is. i changed her design to look more like a buffalo, even if she is younger and small. i also didn't draw her headband, because while trying to do some research i couldn't really find any information on traditional indigenous headbands, so i didn't want to draw them inappropriately, but i also didn't want to remove her being visually indigenous, so i gave her a bandolier bag.
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> ps. if you have any ideas as to how i could better/more respectfully represent her being indigenous, i would love to know! i want to include more buffalo in the fjord-verse as i feel it's odd they were just dropped from the mlp universe entirely.