Posted on 02/01/2020 3:21:43 PM PST by EdnaMode
(CNN)On an average NFL Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, one is bound to see some tomahawk chops. Maybe some Native American headdresses.
The stadium is the home of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, one of several American sports teams that copy Native American imagery and traditions. Now that the Chiefs will take the field for Super Bowl LIV, their customs and costumes are on full display.
How did the team, founded in 1959, come to have such a loaded name? And why does the practice of such cultural appropriation still endure?
What makes all of this so intriguing is that the Chiefs' are named after a white man who impersonated Native American culture.
Vincent Schilling, a Mohawk journalist who has covered sports and writes on Native American culture, says it started with, of all things, the Boy Scouts.
The Tribe of Mic-O-Say is part of the Boy Scouts of America program, which was created by Harold Roe Bartle in 1925.
Bartle was not a Native American, but claimed he was "inducted into a local tribute of the Arapaho people," according to Schilling's research. Bartle was called "Lone Bear," and went by the name Chief Lone Bear in his Mic-O-Say organization.
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Are they all Chiefs and no Indians?
It isn't. :D
Democrats are evil scum.
The dumbest thing is they call the fanbase and its environs “Chiefs Kingdom”.
Shouldn’t it be “Chiefdom”?
How about this... let’s totally remove an reference of American Indians from of modern culture; no sports team names, no movies, zilch. All that will be left will be reservations full of morbidly obese alcoholics with a 90% unemployment rate.
I’m guessing that the Natives should win over a bunch of Claim Jumpers if PCness is to prevail.
Of course nobody complains about Fighting Irish and Vikings because wypipo, amirite?
I think i don’t care...
Yep, i don’t care.
Yeah, that irritates me. The thing is, I’ve been following tbe Chiefs since the 80s, and I never heard anything about “Chiefs Kingdom” until about 5 years ago.
BTW The NCAA headquarters is in INDIANapolis! Shouldn’t it move?
BTW The NCAA headquarters is in INDIANapolis! Shouldn’t it move?
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...and what about Indiana? Half the States are named after Indian tribes.
Note that The NCAA headquarters is in INDIANia too...
Note that The NCAA headquarters is in INDIANa too...
“ Of course nobody complains about Fighting Irish and Vikings because wypipo, amirite?”
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Yeah, as a Greek-American guess I should be offended by the Michigan State Spartans.
Time to be done with Political Correctness. It’s obsolete. It’s run its course. It needs to go the way of the AMC Gremlin.
Well I don’t know how many folks in Missouri are carrying Indian blood or black blood or any other blood. All I’ll say is “Go Chiefs”. If you don’t like that you can kiss My MISSOURA! ASS!
Hey the Gremlin was/is kind of ‘cute’. Same cannot be said of pc. I hope the Chiefs scalp the niners.
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