So is there a reason you made it so specifically every member of the most cruel, violent, savage and deplorable gang in the game are now entirely Native Americans? Cause I'm kinda sensing some subtext here...
Replying to Doughnutgoes285, I do not think this mod was made to paint Native Americans in a bad light (I'm Native American myself). I kind of got the same idea at first but my mindset changed shortly after doing some research.
Rockstar already received a lot of backlash after releasing RDR1 to begin with and it really had an impact on Rockstar. As a result, the Native Americans are protected at Wapiti Reservation, it's not even possible to antagonize them.
Exactly, just like Django. Just cause a couple-colored folk were pretending to be hit and were called names for the sake of telling a story. doesn't mean the whole production is racist... even though wasn't Django made by a white man? it's just crazy how worked up people get about video games. this is more fake than a movie and its lore accurate people. Dont download if you dont like, download if you do.
On the one hand, this is racism, but I don't condemn it. Many tribes who were killed and raped by the US military became so savage that they attacked indiscriminately, killing everyone with terrible brutality. However, the tribes were diverse, there were both Blacks, whites, Indians - everyone who could be useful to the gang. Immediately, the gang looks like Native Americans, elevated to the absolute of cruelty, but without other races, which is strange. I repeat, the mod is excellent, but from the point of view of history, at the time of 1899, there were terribly few fighting groups of pure Native Americans, the Indian Wars ended in 1890, the most combat-ready and powerful groups were killed and sent to reservations (as we see in Wapiti).
The skinners were a way for Rockstar to portray the violence done by native americans at the time, but they didn't want to make them be indigenous since it would be against their politics. It is politics first, good storytelling and realistic portrayal last. It ain't the only problem of that sort in the game, it does other things for political reasons, such as making NPCs you have to kill spit out discriminatory phrases to justify your violence against them (which shouldn't justify it at all, but we are in current day) or Charles passing judgement on NPCs killing some bison and leaving them to rot, ignoring that the Indians themselves did extensively the same thing.
It is to say, if we are supposed to learn from both the good and evil of our history, then portraying all non-white people as saints and all white as murderers is the same as depriving people of education and, specially for white people, of their good.
I think this is a great mod, I understand why a AAA company like Rockstar probably didn't feel it appropriate to make a tribe of cruel sadists exclusively one race, but just aesthetically I like idea of the "displaced peoples gone mad" theme, you can almost empathize with the psychological rage of having ones land ravished, think Eagle Flies but 15 years deeper into the resentment. Having the non-native voice lines might break the immersion though. Either way, cool idea.
this mod also changed their voices, I disabled the OG white voices and all members are native american voices. but I can't do anything about Elias Green and Otis Skinner's voices
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Here is a Reddit post I found.
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadmysteries/comments/wy0xyx/the_skinner_brothers_were_originally_supposed_to/
Rockstar already received a lot of backlash after releasing RDR1 to begin with and it really had an impact on Rockstar. As a result, the Native Americans are protected at Wapiti Reservation, it's not even possible to antagonize them.
It ain't the only problem of that sort in the game, it does other things for political reasons, such as making NPCs you have to kill spit out discriminatory phrases to justify your violence against them (which shouldn't justify it at all, but we are in current day) or Charles passing judgement on NPCs killing some bison and leaving them to rot, ignoring that the Indians themselves did extensively the same thing.
It is to say, if we are supposed to learn from both the good and evil of our history, then portraying all non-white people as saints and all white as murderers is the same as depriving people of education and, specially for white people, of their good.