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Bar suspends “Drink Like an Indian” promotion
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A St. Paul, Minn., sports bar has agreed to suspend its “Drink Like an Indian” promotion. The bar had distributed fliers showing a cowboy and a busty female Indian slumped together in a drunken stupor. Kathy Dickerson, a member of the Kiowa tribe, said the promotion “just didn’t seem right,’’ and objected to the image of the woman in skimpy, Pocahontas garb. “We don’t dress like that,” said Dickerson.
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