This unapologetically confrontational poster features a photograph of Betty Hunter of the Nakoda Nation smoking a pipe. Harry Pollard photographed her in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, sometime in the early 20th century as part of his personal record of Indigenous peoples residing in the western portion of the country. By pairing this already self-assured portrait with a quote confronting Eurocentric beauty standards, the poster underscores that, especially for women, the world values whiteness as the price of acceptance. For Native women, hair also carries deep cultural and spiritual significance—braids connect to ancestors, to ceremony, and to a broader sense of identity. To bleach, cut, or hide traditional hairstyles represents more insidious forms of erasure and echoes a history rife with such acts, from boarding schools where Native children’s braids are cut to contemporary workplaces that deem Indigenous appearance “unprofessional.” In the years since this poster was published, singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose quote accompanies Hunter’s portrait, was revealed to have lied about her Native Canadian ancestry. Since then, she has been stripped of many of her awards and honors; yet her deceit remains a painful example of the predatory appropriation of Indigenous identity for personal gain.