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NFL To Meet Oneida Indian Nation Officials About Redskins Name Controversy
AP via LA Times ^ | 10/26/2013 | staff

Posted on 10/26/2013 3:38:42 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

Oneida Indian officials who oppose the Redskins nickname as a slur will meet with NFL officials next week in New York City, a tribe spokesman said Friday.

The meeting agreed to by NFL officials this month is scheduled for Wednesday in New York City, Oneida Indian Nation spokesman Brett Stagnitti told the Associated Press. ---SNIP--- Halbritter, whose tribe runs a large casino resort in Verona in central New York, says the name is degrading and has devastating effects, especially on younger Indians.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: New York
KEYWORDS: americanindians; nfl; oneida; redskins
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It's OK to use Indian names for casinos but not team mascots.
1 posted on 10/26/2013 3:38:42 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen
Forget the Indians, call them what they really represent:

The WASHINGTON


2 posted on 10/26/2013 3:42:52 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Running casinos respects the indians’ heritage? What a crock. indians are always aggrieved about something. They are like other always-aggrieved groups. Aren’t they supposed to stay on their “reservations” and leave the rest of us alone?


3 posted on 10/26/2013 3:44:43 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Kid Shelleen

This is how Liberal extortion works, make up some silly charge and make the made up offending party give in


4 posted on 10/26/2013 3:45:54 PM PDT by WilliamRobert (Rafael Cruz is an American hero, and he makes me proud to be Texan.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

they are meeting with one tribe? What about all the others?


5 posted on 10/26/2013 3:46:24 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I wondered what the Onion would have to say on the issue:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/redskins-kike-owner-refuses-to-change-teams-offens,34292/


6 posted on 10/26/2013 3:48:00 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: Kid Shelleen

Kids gotta be kids. Morons gotta be morons. But hey! The indians get lots of free press and maybe some free money from the NFL to just shut up and go away. That’s what this is all about anyway. MONEY! It’s ALWAYS about money.


7 posted on 10/26/2013 3:48:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare should have been tested on politicians before being released to the public!)
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To: hal ogen

“indians are always aggrieved about something.” Sorta like the perpetually aggrieved and outraged islamic filth dwmanding special rights.....or homosexuals....or........


8 posted on 10/26/2013 3:53:05 PM PDT by RushLake (Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. (Emerson))
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To: Kid Shelleen

Dan Snyder will pull a Boehner and cave. Some back room deal with the rest of the nervous owners will make it worth his while. The media will cheer and Redskins fans will suck it up. Remember, most Redskins fans in Maryland and Northern VA voted Marxist.


9 posted on 10/26/2013 3:56:37 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist
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To: Kid Shelleen

but Dan Snyder is a REPUBLICAN AND GIVES TO REPUBLICANS follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


10 posted on 10/26/2013 3:56:51 PM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: WilliamRobert

How many of those “Oneidas” are more than 1/32 of an Oneida. This meeting is a travesty.


11 posted on 10/26/2013 3:58:37 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I would really like to see Dan Snyder suggest he’ll be open to changing the team name and mascot to George Washington, but he’ll move the team to Oklahoma (which means “red people” in one Native American dialect) in the process.


12 posted on 10/26/2013 3:59:18 PM PDT by jz638
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To: Kid Shelleen

There are over 125 native tribes in the US. Who’s to say which tribe has rights over the name “Redskins”?


13 posted on 10/26/2013 4:00:08 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

OK, to honor American Indians, change the team’s name to: The Washington Alcoholics


14 posted on 10/26/2013 4:01:05 PM PDT by twister881
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To: elpadre

Perhaps the others did not donate enough to the Democratic party.


15 posted on 10/26/2013 4:01:06 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Kid Shelleen

Injuns!!!!WOOOOO WWOOOO WOOOO!!!!!Geronimo!!


16 posted on 10/26/2013 4:03:38 PM PDT by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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...says the name is degrading and has devastating effects, especially on younger Indians.

Yeah, I've never been the same since I was once called a cracker...

17 posted on 10/26/2013 4:04:00 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

If the idiots knew the story behind the name Washington Redskins maybe they’d back off. Naw, they’re too busy with their sanctimony and arrogance to pay attention to history.


18 posted on 10/26/2013 4:04:39 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Kid Shelleen

Are they going to talk to them about scalping tickets?


19 posted on 10/26/2013 4:04:50 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Phony President)
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To: hal ogen

Please do not equate ALL indians (native Americans) to the rantings of but .001%.


20 posted on 10/26/2013 4:05:52 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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