If you’re looking for live music and entertainment, Disney World’s got it.

Oftentimes, you’ll walk through Magic Kingdom and hear the Dapper Dans singing, see the Main Street Philharmonic performing, or even catch a high school marching band making their way down Main Street, U.S.A. Recently, a high school band and dancers performed in Magic Kingdom, but their performance has been criticized and Disney has now issued a response.

Earlier this week, the Port Neches-Grove High School marching band and dancers performed in Magic Kingdom. Port Neches-Grove High School is located in Port Neches, Texas.

Tara Houska is Ojibwe from Couchiching First Nation and is an attorney. According to the TED website, Houska is a tribal attorney and she “advocates on behalf of tribal nations at the local and federal levels.” Recently, Houska spoke out against the performance from Port Neches-Grove High School and posted a clip of it on Twitter.

You can see Houska’s tweet and a clip of the video of the performance from Port Neches-Grove below. In it, the dancers are heard saying “scalp ’em Indians, scalp ’em.”

Cuz a bunch of kids in fringe chanting “scalp ‘em Indians, scalp ‘em” is honor, right?

And any Natives who attend @pngisd should prolly just accept their classmates dehumanizing them cuz “tradition”, right?

Shame on @DisneyParks hosting this. Nostalgic racism is RACISM. pic.twitter.com/ELsJHRgJlw

— tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ (@zhaabowekwe) March 18, 2022

According to a Tweet from reporter Scott Gustin, Disney has issued a statement in response to the performance. The statement comes from Disney Spokesperson Jacquee Wahler. In it Wahler says “We regret this performance took place as it did not reflect the audition tape that was submitted. We have immediately put measures in place to ensure performances reflect the auditions.”

We’ll continue to look for any more statements from Disney or other updates about this matter.

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