Beyonce’s shirt during a young performance in her tour of “Cowboy Carter” sparked a discussion on how the Americans framing their history and caused a wave of criticism of the star born in Houston.
The shirt wearing during a concert in Paris appeared pictures of the Buffalo soldiers, who belong to the active black American army units during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. On his back, it was a lengthy description of the soldiers who included “their opponents, the enemies of peace, order, and settlement: the warring Indians, thieves, livestock thieves, murderer gunmen, armed, reformers, and Mexican revolutions.”
Performing shirt and video clips also appeared on Beyonce.
While preparing to return to the United States to get offers in her hometown this week, the fans and indigenous influencers moved to social media to criticize Beyonce for wearing a shirt that puts the indigenous Americans and Mexican revolutionaries as anything but victims of American imperialism and to promote anti -Delinus languages.
Beyonce spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
Who are the Buffalo soldiers?
Buffalo soldiers served in six military units created after the Civil War in 1866. They were formerly enslaved men, and Fremen, and the black civil war soldiers and fought in hundreds of conflicts-including in the Spanish-American war, and the First World War-and until it was resolved in 1951.
The quotation is also noted on the Beyonce shirt, who also fought many battles against the indigenous peoples as part of the campaign of violence and stealing lands for the American army while expanding the country.
Some historians say that the title of “Buffalo” was awarded by the tribes who admired the courage and perseverance of the fighters, but this may be more than the legend of the truth. “At the end of the day, we do not have this type of information,” said Calter Carter, director of exhibition at the Buffalo Museum, soldiers in Houston.
Carter and other museum employees said only in the past few years, the museum has made broader efforts to include more complications of the battles fought by buffalo soldiers against indigenous Americans and Mexican revolutionaries and the role they played in subjugating indigenous peoples. They, like many other museums throughout the country, hope to add more differences to framing American history and be more respectful of the ways that caused their harm to the original societies.
“We are setting the romance of the western borders,” he said. “The early stories that spoke about Boufalo’s soldiers have been affected by many of these factors. So you really didn’t see a change in this narration until recently.”
There is often a shortage of various sounds that discuss how the history of Boufalo soldiers is framing. She said that the current political climate has pressed schools, including those in Texas, to avoid sincere discussions on American history.
“At the present time, in this field, we are under a retreat from many educational areas that we cannot go to and teach this date,” said Touvar. “We are a museum where we can at least be center, where we can invite society regardless of what the regions say, and invite them to learn and do what we can do to continue teaching sincere history.”
Historians examine the motivation for reclamation
Beyonce’s latest album, “Act II: Cowboy Carter”, played a type of American icon, which many see as its way of sabotaging this type of rural music in white and restoring aesthetic cow shepherds of black Americans. Last year, she became the first black woman ever in the Billboard, and “Cowboy Carter” won the best Grammy Awards, 2025 album.
“Buffalo’s soldiers play this main role in the black monarchy of the American West,” said Tad Stormer, historian and professor at Johns Hopkins University. “From my point of view, (Beyonce) is well aware of the role that these pictures play. This is the” Cowboy Carter “tour to cry out loud. The entire round, the entire album, the entire piece is located in this narration.
But Stoermer also indicates that Buffalo’s soldiers have been framing in the American story in a way that also plays in the legends of American nationalism.
Beyonce’s use of Buffalo soldiers also suggests that black Americans use their story to demand an agency about their role in establishing the country, Alina E said. Roberts, historian, author and professor at the University of Pittsburg who study the interruption of the lives of black and indigenous American from the civil war until the current day.
She said: “This is the category in which I believed that it might have been entering into this conversation, but Boufalo’s soldiers are a step above that because they were literally involved not only in the settlement of the West but to some extent to some extent.”
A violent reaction on the Internet is due to Houston’s offers
Many influencers, performance and academics have moved to social media this week to criticize Beyonce or the language of the shirt as anti -censorship. “Do you think Beyonce will apologize (or admit) the shirt?” Ingenous.tv, a news and culture account from the indigenous population with more than 130,000 followers, requested in Thursday’s publication.
Many of its critics, as well as fans, agree. A flood of social media publications called for a pop star for the historical frame on the shirt.
“The soldiers of Bovalo are an interesting historical moment to look at it. But we have to be honest about what they did, especially in their operations against the Americans and the indigenous Mexicans,” said Chisom Okorafor, who is published on Tiktok under the Confirdsomaya handle.
Orecrafour said that there is no “progressive” way to restore America’s history to build the empire in the West, and that Beyonce’s use of Western symbolism sends a problematic message: “Black, too, can engage in American nationalism.”
And she said, “Black can also benefit from the atrocities (the American Empire),” she said. “It is a message that tells you to abandon immigrants, people from the indigenous people, and people who live outside the United States. It is a message that tells you not only the virtue that you have been born in this country, but the longer your line in this country, the more virtuous you are.”