Should I get Kaya?

[JAdder]

Well, to get my opion in there yes, she is my favortie doll. I love her. I do not recomend talking her out of the braids unless you are really good with doll hair. I am not good at doll hair and found that out WAY too late. But I love the outfits and I really LOVE Native American dolls and always have.

[prasnlrd]

Originally posted by *Marisol_Grace_Girl*:
I guess i'm the only one to say NO?? [img]redface.gif[/img]

My sister had Kaya, sooo excited.... only to find the hair is impossible after it is out of the braids... so a month later..... Kaya is sold on ebay.... no more kaya for my sister!!

She is cute, but has very very unmanagable hair if you take her braids out.

Hard to brush hair,

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...uh-oh, I so disagee with this. These dolls are not to meant to have hair that is all alike. Just like real people do not. Whether a doll's hair is straight and silky, textured, long braids, I love them all!

A have a little bit of everybody and each and everyone has differing hair. I just brush it ,braid or what ever is necessary to "my hearts content"! If I disliked and got rid of dolls because her hair was different to handle, I would not have any of my wonderful crowd of 19!

HEE-HAW! I love um ALL!!!!

[img]graemlins/island.gif[/img] prasnlrd in CA. [img]graemlins/island.gif[/img]

[colettedenali]

I'm with Sheila on this one. I dont find Kaya's hair unmanageable at all- perhaps because it's very similar to my own.

Sometimes, we think things that are different from what's familiar are too hard- "unmanageable." Sometimes, you have to take the time to learn to appreciate the differences of others. This goes for dolls and it goes for people. It might seem like a small thing to get rid of a doll because her hair was hard to brush (a good misting bottle and brushing from bottom to top would help that), but that same kind of thinking translates into unwillingness to befriend or respect other people because something about them is "unmanageable."

I happen to love Kaya. As a child, I never saw respectful representations of American Indians (Native American is not the preferred term to use). Most dolls that sharing my ethnic background were very, very stereotyped. Kaya is perhaps the only doll available that was created with the full respect American Indians deserve.

[Gombe Gal]

Yes! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
She is really cute, AND you can use her as Singing Bird when you are playing with Kirsten! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[MissMooMoo]

I think the preferred term depends on who you are. I know a lot of people who prefer First Nations Peoples. . .and Native American really is still the widely used term, although plenty do use American Indian.

It reminds me of a person I know who was raised in Africa by his missionary parents (he is anglo). When he came to the US for college, he went to the African American Student Association Meeting in all earnesty, thinking it was students from Africa! He says he actually went up to one guy and asked what part of Africa he was from, and that's when he learned it was really a group for black Americans. He was so embarassed.

Anyway, that's a side note. I love my Kaya and highly recommend her.

Her hair, like Molly and Kirsten, is hard to manage beacause of the length and thinness of the wig needed for the braids. For an adult this should not be a problem but for a young child, it could be a pain. Anyway, it's all solved if you just leave it in the braids :-).

[colettedenali]

Of course the preferred term depends on where you live, however:

American Indian is preferred the most strongly by American Indians themselves, at 49.76% according to the 2000 census. Native American is used more broadly by non-Indian people.

I am quite familiar with other terminology, such as First Nations, First Peoples, and Aboriginal (which are used more frequently in Canada than here).

All of which are good words. People have the right to self-identification. My rule of thumb is: if someone who belongs to the group tells you how they prefer to be identified, respect them by honoring their preferred term.