As Prime Mistake True-dope would say, "Diversity is our strength!"
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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Ok and I admit if there were any Native American based name I’d be sympathetic to someone taking issue with it’d be ‘Redskin’ —not ‘Chief’ but apparently, most recent surveys show that Native Americans polled don’t find Redskins mascot offensive! 9/10 of them in fact!
It’s only controversial to controversy addicts.
As Prime Mistake True-dope would say, "Diversity is our strength!"
Controversial my ass
Absolutely disgusting what masquerades for journalism these days
How about this... let’s totally remove an reference of American Indians from of modern culture;
YES!
Flush them down the memory hole.
I noticed the Chiefs fans are doing the chop like FSU.
Really don’t care
etymology
Origin: Latin.. caput (head)
Old French: chief
Cultural appropriation from the French!
or Reservation ??
The snowflake who wrote this drivel would really be triggered if he/she/it attended a football game at my High School.
Our team are the “Red Raiders”, the mascot is dressed as a Native American, complete with full headdress and moccasins, the uniforms resemble the Chiefs’, including the arrowhead on the helmet.
At midfield, there is a large Arrowhead logo and the band does the “tomahawk chop”. It’s as Politically Incorrect as possible.
Some bygones are more equal than others -- right, CNN???
Indian casinos have appropriated Chinese poker raking in billions from Asians.
How about Chiefs’ Nation?
(After Red Sox Nation, Steeler Nation, etc.)
Cherokee Nation
The Chief is elected; it is not a hereditary post.
One of my boys refers to them as the “Chefs.”
Oh, Gosh. Hey when is the NFL team in Minnesota going to stop crapping on people of Scandinavian descent, with their constant allusions to violence with their fierce horned outfits and Viking war cries? sooo demeaning!
(Of course the Scandinavians generally could use a bit of an injection of aggressiveness, haha!)
Exactly. Why doesn't CNN ever have a similar article on the Minnesota Vikings?
Heck, wypipo like it!
Haha, New city name and state for the Colts should be “Nativeamericanopolis, Nativeamericana”
Or Indiginousopolis, Indiginousia
It’s not *controversial*.
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