By Alex Nino Gheciu Pernell Bad Arm never asked to become a meme. But in the early 2010s, a photo of the First Nations man \u2014 clad in a windbreaker with his fists up in a fighter\u2019s stance, his gaze slightly vacant \u2014 spread across the internet. Shared on message boards such as 4chan, the picture was initially used mockingly to perpetuate stereotypes of Indigenous people. \u201cIt was being shared mostly by non-Indigenous people to kind of ridicule and make fun of us,\u201d says filmmaker Damien Eagle Bear. But Indigenous users soon reclaimed the photo, captioning it with the rez slang word \u201cskoden\u201d \u2014 as in \u201clet\u2019s go, then\u201d \u2014 and transforming it into part meme, part rallying cry. Still, when Eagle Bear first saw the photo in 2013, his… <\/p>\n
By Alex Nino Gheciu Pernell Bad Arm never asked to become a meme. But in the early 2010s, a photo of the First Nations man \u2014 clad in a windbreaker with his fists up in a fighter\u2019s stance, his gaze slightly vacant \u2014 spread across the internet. Shared on message boards such as 4chan, the picture was initially used mockingly to perpetuate stereotypes of Indigenous people. \u201cIt was being shared mostly by non-Indigenous people to kind of ridicule and make fun of us,\u201d says filmmaker Damien Eagle Bear. But Indigenous users soon reclaimed the photo, captioning it with the rez slang word \u201cskoden\u201d \u2014 as in \u201clet\u2019s go, then\u201d \u2014 and transforming it into part meme, part rallying cry. Still, when Eagle Bear first saw the photo in 2013, his... <\/p>\n