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LONDON: Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been accused of appropriating the “living tradition of a marginalized people” by writing about the Navajo legend of the skinwalker in a new story.
Critics say she is misrepresenting Native American culture in the first part of four new web posts, called the History of Magic in North America.
Her history of the 14th to 17th century was released on her Pottermore website on Tuesday, in which she allegedly included some Native American customs and attributing Navajo legends, such as skin-walkers, to her wizarding world. The author hasn’t commented on the row.
The four posts are being published ahead of the new Harry Potter prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which is out in November.
Some of the criticism comes from a woman called Dr. Adrienne Keene from the Cherokee Nation, who teaches Native American studies at Brown University outside Boston.