Glastonbury to curb sales of Native American headdresses

Petition leader Daniel Round issued a statement about the move:

"Our petition, small in numbers but passionate in support, pushed this issue right up to [organiser] Emily Eavis, and she listened. From next year, alongside candle flares and flags, Native American style headdresses will not be on sale at Glasto stalls. Although it is only one UK festival, I hope that if we spread the news of Glastonbury's decision online, positive discussions about the stereotyping of Native Americans and the headdress will grow in the UK and elsewhere. Just 65 people signed the petition online. Explaining the reason for setting it up, the original text read: "There has long been consensus among indigenous civil rights activists in North America about the wearing of headdresses by non-Natives – that it is an offensive and disrespectful form of cultural appropriation, that it homogenises diverse indigenous peoples, and that it perpetuates damaging, archaic and racist stereotypes."

The headdresses haven't been banned entirely, but the sales will no longer take place on-site, confirms Emily Eavis to NME:

"It isn’t a ban, it’s just that we’ve asked the two traders selling them to hold off."

In other Worthy Farm-flavoured news, tickets for the 2015 event sold out in a record 25 minutes.