7 Feb 2019

Wild West festival slammed for 'entrenching racist stereotypes'

From Checkpoint, 5:49 pm on 7 February 2019

Organisers of the Waimamaku Wild West Festival in the Far North have apologised for their ignorance after they promoted the event with images of people dressed as cowboys pretending to shoot Native Americans.

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