The Native American elder who was mocked by a group of teenagers from Kentucky near the Lincoln Memorial on Friday had a similar encounter with a group of 30-40 college students who dressed up in Indian garb in 2015.
Nathan Phillips is the 64-year-old Vietnam War veteran who was singing the American Indian Movement song while surrounded by Covington Catholic High School students at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
In 2015, he was living in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a small town just outside of Ann Arbor, WJBK-TV reported.
One Saturday in mid-April, Phillips decided to go for an afternoon stroll. During his walk, he came upon a group of about three dozens students from Eastern Michigan University who were dressed as Native Americans.
‘They had little feathers on, I was just going to walk by,’ Phillips said.
‘A group of them said, “Come on over, come here”.’
Phillips said he walked over to the fence and observed the students, who were throwing a Native American-themed party.
Nathan Phillips, the Native American elder who was mocked by a group of teenagers from Kentucky near the Lincoln Memorial on Friday, had a similar encounter with a group of 30-40 college students who dressed up in Indian garb in 2015. He is seen above in 2015
Phillips said that he was taunted with racial slurs by a group of about three dozen college students dressed as Native Americans in a home (above) in Ypsilanti, Michigan
‘They had their face painted,’ Phillips said.
‘I said, “What the heck is going on here?”
‘“Oh we are honoring you”,’ Phillips said he was told.
‘I said, “No, you are not honoring me”.’
The students who attended the so-called ‘red-face’ party painted their faces red, were bare-chested, and were wearing headdresses, according to Native News Online.
‘We are Hurons and we are doing a ceremony to impregnate women,’ one of the students reportedly told Phillips.
From 1929 until 1991, Eastern Michigan University’s nickname was ‘Hurons,’ who were part of the Iroquoian people that were living along the St. Lawrence River when they were contacted by French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1534.
EMU, which is a public, state-funded university, decided to drop the nickname and logo, which depicted a Huron Indian.
The school’s nickname and logo has been changed to ‘Eagles.’
Phillips said the students took offense to his comment.
The Indigenous Peoples March in Washington on Friday coincided with the March for Life, which drew thousands of anti-abortion protesters
‘They started whooping and hollering,’ he said.
‘I said, “That wasn't honoring, that was racist”.
‘Then at that time, it really got ugly.’
Phillips said that he was subjected to racial slurs, with one of the students yelling: ‘Go back to the reservation, you blank Indian.’
He said that another one of the students threw a beer can at him.
‘If I would have stayed where I was at, it would have hit me in the head,’ Phillips said.
‘I backed up and it hit me in the chest.’
He then decided to call the police, but by the time officers arrived, the students had already dispersed.
‘It was like there was no party there at all,’ Phillips said.
Phillips filed a complaint with Eastern Michigan University’s campus police department, though there is no indication that the probe resulted in any arrests.
The Kentucky teenagers who were filmed on Friday mocking Phillips could face expulsion from their Catholic high school, a spokesperson has said.
The Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High School condemned the actions of the students and vehemently apologized to Phillips, in a statement on Saturday.
'This behavior is opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person,' the statement read.
'The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion.'
The 64-year-old was singing the American Indian Movement song of unity near Friday's March for Life when he was surrounded by a group of teens, who he claimed were chanting 'build that wall, build that wall'.
Footage of the encounter subsequently went viral, leading to an outcry on social media for the boys involved to be properly reprimanded.
A number of the students in the footage were wearing Make America Great Again hats
Some of the students were also wearing clothing with Covington logos
Philips said he felt threatened by the teens when they suddenly swarmed around him as he and other activists were preparing to leave the Lincoln Memorial.
He told told The Washington Post: 'It was getting ugly, and I was thinking: "I’ve got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial."
'I started going that way, and that guy in the hat stood in my way and we were at an impasse. He just blocked my way and wouldn’t allow me to retreat.'
Phillips said he noticed tensions beginning to escalate when the teens and other apparent participants from the nearby March for Life rally began taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd.
A few people in the March for Life crowd began to chant 'Build that wall, build that wall,' he said.
However a student from the school who was with the group claimed it was Philips who approached the students for a 'publicity stunt'. He said Philips had a history of 'claiming racial harassment.'
Nathan Phillips (pictured) said he heard people chanting 'build that wall'
In a letter posted on Twitter by a priest named Fr. Jim Sichko, the unnamed student said that his friend who came face-to-face with Philips as Philips stood singing and beating his drum, now faces expulsion for 'a crime he didn't commit.'
The student wrote: ' After that initial occurrence [with Philips], we were then verbally assaulted by four or five African-American men who called us 'f*****s' and berated one of our African-American students for being friends with us.
'The truth needs to come out. A great injustice has been done, and it is our duty to see that the truth prevails.
Philips said he kept singing and thinking about his wife, Shoshana, who died of bone marrow cancer nearly four years ago, and the various threats that face indigenous communities.
He said he was left shaken by the incident on Friday. He added: 'I'm still trying to process what happened. I’m feeling a little bit overwhelmed.'
He said he hopes the teens will find a lesson in all of the negative attention generated by the videos.
'That energy could be turned into feeding the people, cleaning up our communities and figuring out what else we can do.'
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