It's A Warriors Name

[countryroads316]

Redskins Facts: Native Americans Help Defend Washington Redskins Name - TIME

 

[SonnyCID]

A video produced by the team supporting their angle?

Well that should clear the whole thing up.

 

[Wolvie]

I'm glad the Redskins put this out. "Redskin" is only offensive if you try to make it offensive. And I have NEVER heard a single soul try to use it to belittle anyone.

I've heard plenty of people try to use the words "liberal" and "right-winger" in a derogatory fashion. But you won't hear anyone crying about how those words shouldn't be used. People need to get over this redskins nonsense...

...and start bitching about the use of "Indians." That shit is straight up racist!

 

[countryroads316]

A video produced by the team supporting their angle?

Well that should clear the whole thing up.

always gonna be people like you trying to say different but the fact is Native Americans approve of the name it's mostly politicians or someone trying to put words in their mouths

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Hmmmm do I even want to start into this again...nope I'll refrain. Y'all should thank me...



And direct you to...

http://www.sportshoopla.com/forums/...tent-office-cancels-trademark-washington.html

And this

http://www.sportshoopla.com/forums/...board-general-discussion/152255-redskins.html

 

[IPostedWhat]

 

[Caliskinsfan]

I cringe that this is a skins fan...

 

[SonnyCID]

always gonna be people like you trying to say different but the fact is Native Americans approve of the name it's mostly politicians or someone trying to put words in their mouths

Saying that ALL natives agree with your point is just as ignorant as saying they ALL agree with the other side.

Both sides are putting words in their mouths.

 

[Davis_Mike]

I work with & come in contact with quite few "Native Americans" & all of them think this is a non-issue. In fact they can't stand this PC bullshit. So if the PC police actually took the time to ask what NA would want to do about this issue, I'm willing to bet the overwhelming majority want the name to remain.

But the PC people don't care, white guilt has them all twisted.

The Redskins need to continue this push back against the an obvious money grab.

 

[Caliskinsfan]

I work with & come in contact with quite few "Native Americans" & all of them think this is a non-issue. In fact they can't stand this PC bullshit. So if PC police actually took the time to ask what NA would want to do about this issue, I'm willing to bet the overwhelming majority want the name to remain.

But the PC people don't care, white guilt has them all twisted.

The Redskins need to continue this push back against the an obvious money grab.

Two thumbs up for you!

 

[Davis_Mike]

I work for one of the electric companies here in AZ. We have more than a few journeymen who are NA. Every now & then I've been out with some of them after work to shoot the shit or watch a ball game. I also from time to time work on the Navajo, Gila River, Tohono, Maricopa, or other reservations. I see 2 football jerseys when I am there, Cardinals & Redskins. For them this is a non-issue.

 

[dirtboy068]

I work with & come in contact with quite few "Native Americans" & all of them think this is a non-issue. In fact they can't stand this PC bullshit. So if the PC police actually took the time to ask what NA would want to do about this issue, I'm willing to bet the overwhelming majority want the name to remain.

But the PC people don't care, white guilt has them all twisted.

The Redskins need to continue this push back against the an obvious money grab.

stop lying..... i work with a bunch and they all would never want to be called a ****er , wetback, redskin.

 

[IPostedWhat]

always gonna be people like you trying to say different but the fact is Native Americans approve of the name it's mostly politicians or someone trying to put words in their mouths

Some Native Americans don't care, but that doesn't mean all of them don't.

The following groups have passed resolutions or issued statements regarding their opposition to the name of the Washington NFL team:

Tribes

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians[252]
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma[252]
Comanche Nation of Oklahoma[252]
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Washington)[252]
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Michigan)
Hoh Indian Tribe[253]
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona[254]
Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes[255][256]
Juaneño Band of Mission Indians (California)[252]
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Michigan)
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, Gun Lake Tribe (Michigan)[257]
Menominee Tribe of Indians (Wisconsin)[252]
Oneida Indian Nation (New York)[258]
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin[252]
Navajo Nation Council[154]
Penobscot Nation[259]
Poarch Band of Creek Indians[260]
Samish Indian Nation (Washington)[261]
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Michigan)[262]
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (Idaho)[263]
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (North Dakota)
The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (North Dakota)[264]
United South and Eastern Tribes (USET)[265]

Organizations

Advocates for American Indian Children (California)
American Indian Mental Health Association (Minnesota)
American Indian Movement[266]
American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center of San Bernardino County
American Indian Student Services at the Ohio State University
American Indian High Education Consortium
American Indian College Fund
Americans for Indian Opportunity
Association on American Indian Affairs
Buncombe County Native American Inter-tribal Association (North Carolina)
Capitol Area Indian Resources (Sacramento, CA)
Concerned American Indian Parents (Minnesota)
Council for Indigenous North Americans (University of Southern Maine)
Eagle and Condor Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance
First Peoples Worldwide
Fontana Native American Indian Center, Inc. (California)
Governor’s Interstate Indian Council
Greater Tulsa Area Indian Affairs Commission[267]
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (Wisconsin)
HONOR – Honor Our Neighbors Origins and Rights
Kansas Association for Native American Education
Maryland Commission on Indian Affairs
Medicine Wheel Inter-tribal Association (Louisiana)
Minnesota Indian Education Association
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
National Indian Child Welfare Association
National Indian Education Association
National Indian Youth Council
National Native American Law Student Association
Native American Caucus of the California Democratic Party
Native American Finance Officers Association (NAFOA)[268]
Native American Journalists Association[269]
Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio
Native American Journalists Association
Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
Native Voice Network
Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (Michigan)
North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs
North Dakota Indian Education Association
Office of Native American Ministry, Diocese of Grand Rapids (Michigan)
Ohio Center for Native American Affairs
San Bernardino/Riverside Counties Native American Community Council
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
Society of Indian Psychologists of the Americas
Southern California Indian Center
St. Cloud State University – American Indian Center
Tennessee Chapter of the National Coalition for the Preservation of Indigenous Cultures
Tennessee Commission of Indian Affairs
Tennessee Native Veterans Society
Tulsa Indian Coalition Against Racism[270]
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Unified Coalition for American Indian Concerns, Virginia
The United Indian Nations of Oklahoma
Virginia American Indian Cultural Resource Center
Wisconsin Indian Education Association
WIEA “Indian” Mascot and Logo Taskforce (Wisconsin)
Woodland Indian Community Center-Lansing (Michigan)
Youth “Indian” Mascot and Logo Task force (Wisconsin)

Individuals

Interviews at a powwow in Towson, Maryland find several Native Americans who favor a change of the Redskins name.[271] These Native Americans have put their opposition to the Redskins' name on the public record:

Sherman Alexie (author, Spokane)[272]
Notah Begay (Navajo, PGA pro golfer) called the Redskins' name "a very clear example of institutionalized degradation of an ethnic minority."[273]
Clyde Bellecourt (Ojibwe, co-founder of the American Indian Movement)[274]
Bob Burns (Blackfeet elder)[275]
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne, U.S. Senator)[276]
Vine Deloria, Jr. (Sioux, historian/author)[277]
Claudia Fox Tree (Arawak) - "It’s part of a much larger issue in that those sort of depictions are our only representation in modern America. It isn’t just the sin of stereotypes and misinformation, it’s the sin of absence – of not seeing yourself or the people you come from anywhere, of not seeing any contemporary images."[278]
Kevin Gover (Pawnee, director of The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian)[279]
Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee, author/activist)[280]
Jacqueline Keeler (Dineh/Yankton Dakota)
Litefoot (Cherokee/Chichimeca, rapper) ironically celebrates Native American team names as "recreational genocide" on the track 'Stereotipik'.[281]
Russell Means (Oglala Lakota, activist/actor)[282]
Billy Mills (Sioux, Olympic gold medal winner)[283]
Ted Nolan (First Nations Ojibway, NHL player and coach)[284]
Buford Rolin (Creek tribal chairman)[285]
Shoni Schimmel (Umatilla, Louisville Cardinals guard, class of 2015)[286]
Charlene Teters (Spokane, artist/lecturer)[287]
W. Richard West Jr. (Cheyenne) - President of the Autry National Center in Los Angeles: Redskin is "an openly derogatory term. It always is and it always has been.” West also characterizes the Original American's Foundation as an "attempt to divert attention from the fact that his team’s nickname is coming under increasing heat from people who think it’s an offensive racial term."[288]

Washington Redskins name controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Interesting...


500 high schools use 'Redskins,' 'Indians,' or 'Braves' as team name - The Tell - MarketWatch

 

[Broncos6482]

It's almost like Native Americans are individuals with different feelings and beliefs from other Native Americans.

 

[sonnyblack65]

I cringe that this is a skins fan...

Cali nice to finally putting a face to your posts

 

[BritishDolfan]

I've heard plenty of people try to use the words "liberal" and "right-winger" in a derogatory fashion. But you won't hear anyone crying about how those words shouldn't be used. People need to get over this redskins nonsense...

I'm fairly sure that people have complained about that, certainly about the derogatory use of the word "liberal".

500 high schools use 'Redskins,' 'Indians,' or 'Braves' as team name - The Tell - MarketWatch

IIRC quite a few have changed their names from those things as well.

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Cali nice to finally putting a face to your posts

Damn you!!!!!! I'm a unicorn, I've told ya a hundred times...ain't I purdy?

IIRC quite a few have changed their names from those things as well.

Not enough for the article to lose it's significance.

 

[sonnyblack65]

It's A Warriors Name

So is the name of my fav gang from Coney Island, glad most made it back safely. RIFF Can you dig it suckas?

 

[sonnyblack65]

Damn you!!!!!! I'm a unicorn, I've told ya a hundred times...ain't I purdy?

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Not enough for the article to lose it's significance.

Haha yeah right women and unicorns on internet aren't real, we both know that. You shir got a purdy horn