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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How did the team, founded in 1959, come to have such a loaded name? In 1959 people had lives, and were not triggered snowflakes. That is at least part of it. I was in Japan, in Uncle Sam’s Army.
Tribe?
But what about those casinos? Duty free cigarettes?
why does the practice of such cultural appropriation still endure?”
Why do we have to endure the idiocy of such questions?
Taken. The Cleveland Indians are the “Tribe.”
Oh come on! This is a tribute to Native Americans and their warrior prowess. It is not negative.
Lo the poor Vandal (as in Idaho)!
A member of a Germanic people that ravaged Gaul, Spain, and North Africa in the 4th–5th centuries and sacked Rome in AD 455.
I'm scandinavian, but am annoyed by the Vikings only for their decades of losses.
Are we sure this isn’t being all made up by CNN? Next they will find a few Indians who say they are offended. Freaking media parasites.
-—Are we sure this isn’t being all made up by CNN?——
Isn’t everything?
Yankees, Rebels, Raiders White Sox, Rangers
Oh boy! Now you’ve picked a scab off. Think of the states, counties, cities, towns, parks, geographic features, etc. with Indian names. The very idea of abolishing all that is pure balderdash. A bunch of people need to get a life.
Exactly. I've been saying this for years now. However, in the Chief's case, I'm rooting for the PC commies so that it shuts down their fans' insipid 'TV injun theme war chant'!
....It needs to go the way of the AMC Gremlin.
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That was a fun little car.
It’s not controversial.
I have a friend of Swedish descent, who takes pleasure in his roots, and cracking jokes about it. Such as, “What’s dumber than a dumb Norwegian? A smart Swede!”
Worrying about mascots names is as idiot as worrying about Dem candidates sanity. I cheer on the Cardinals, Coyotes, Sharks, Packers, hell folks this is just a game. How do you treat your neighbor is the question. Raise the Stars and Stripes and stop abortions. IMHO. Oh, and “Go Chiefs”.
Archie Bunker can rattle those off all day long. ..
https://twitter.com/peta/status/1223177758227828736?s=21
Check out the ridiculous PETA Super Bowl ad that even the NFL had the sense not to run.
redshawk wrote: “Yankees, Rebels, Raiders White Sox, Rangers”
How about those ‘Sooners’ from the adjacent state of Oklahoma. The state’s name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning “red people”.
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