{"id":17,"date":"2013-12-12T02:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T02:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckinabox.com\/blog\/files\/treme_mardi_gras_indians.php#unique-entry-id-372"},"modified":"2013-12-12T02:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T02:27:03","slug":"treme-mardi-gras-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Treme: Mardi Gras Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I started watching the HBO show <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/treme\" rel=\"external\">Treme<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> not too long ago. It&#8217;s about post-Katrina New Orleans and it&#8217;s culture and inhabitants. What I&#8217;m most amazed about is the whole Mardi Gras Indian culture. The tribes take the entire year to make these elaborate costumes and then on Mardi Gras they &#8220;battle&#8221; other Indian tribes. I find this scene from Treme absolutely beautiful and I had to watch it 4 or 5 times before I finally got it. It&#8217;s hard to understand what they say with their pseudo-African language but you get it. It&#8217;s all quite beautiful and the fact that the battles are non-violent and really based on creativity and art makes it that much more wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZQkJHG_Btw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is footage of real Mardi Gras Indian battles on YouTube and it&#8217;s not much different than the depiction in Treme.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started watching the HBO show Treme not too long ago. It&#8217;s about post-Katrina New Orleans and it&#8217;s culture and inhabitants. What I&#8217;m most amazed about is the whole Mardi Gras Indian culture. The tribes take the entire year to make these elaborate costumes and then on Mardi Gras they &#8220;battle&#8221; other Indian tribes. I &#8230; <a title=\"Treme: Mardi Gras Indians\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=17\" aria-label=\"Read more about Treme: Mardi Gras Indians\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john_beck","wp-image-borders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XpZy-h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":846,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=846","url_meta":{"origin":17,"position":0},"title":"Central Jersey Parks and Beyond!","author":"John Beck","date":"March 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been wanting to write this entry for over a year. 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