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How the Kansas City Chiefs got their name, and why it's so controversia
CNN ^ | February 1, 2020 | Leah Asmelash

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.

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: chiefs; cnn; cnnsucks; crapreporting; fakenews; kansascity; kansascitychiefs; missouri; nfl; not1959; superbowl
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To: Flick Lives
“..and what about Indiana? Half the States are named after Indian tribes.”

virtually every big river east of the Mississippi is named after the word the Indians called it.

61 posted on 02/01/2020 4:24:18 PM PST by circlecity
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To: EdnaMode

No more nickels or pennies with Indians on them!


62 posted on 02/01/2020 4:25:51 PM PST by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: Tommy Revolts

IMPEACH!!


63 posted on 02/01/2020 4:26:04 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: lurk

It’s not going anywhere until we totally crush the Left. It is how they obtain money and power.


64 posted on 02/01/2020 4:33:31 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: moehoward

In 1959 they were the Dallas Texans.


65 posted on 02/01/2020 4:35:20 PM PST by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)
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To: Paladin2

There’s Indians, but that’s baseball.


66 posted on 02/01/2020 4:42:35 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Tommy Revolts

GO CHIEFS!,,,


67 posted on 02/01/2020 4:45:29 PM PST by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold)
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To: EdnaMode

In 1959 the use of the title 'Chief' was NOT loaded. That came with the PC crap of the last 2 decades.

In fact, every elementary school kid had a Big Chief writing tablet in 1959.


68 posted on 02/01/2020 4:46:05 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: EdnaMode

I will admit that I was triggered during the playoffs when they showed the fans doing the tomahawk chop — numerous times.

Go Texans.

Well, Go Titans.

Okay, Go Chiefs!


69 posted on 02/01/2020 4:49:56 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

My old high school was the Robert E. Lee Generals.

The school district not only got rid of the mascot, they tore down the school and built a new one next door and named it after some unknown school administrator that no one knows.

Scorched earth tactics.


70 posted on 02/01/2020 4:56:54 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: EdnaMode

With whom is it “so controversial”?

Fake news.


71 posted on 02/01/2020 4:57:52 PM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: Fightin Whitey
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.

Unfortunately, for the University of Idaho, the Vandal nickname was adopted before the term vandal became the common term for someone who damaged property. The average person's lack of knowledge about history also comes into play.

72 posted on 02/01/2020 4:59:47 PM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: EdnaMode

The whiney, attention whore activists really do become tiresome. Mascots are picked for postive, admirable attributes and no one is stereotyping or making fun of Native Americans. And there are plenty of Euro based mascots.

The Tennessee Volunteer with the Blue Tick Hound.
The Fighting Irish Leprechaun.
The Mountaineer with his coonskin cap and musket.
The Minutemen.
The Patriots
The Viking with the horned hat.
The 49ers
The Cowboys in all the cowboy get up.
The Sooners in their covered wagon
The Trojans and Spartans
The Tar Heels
The Cavaliers
The Packers
The Yankees
The Buccaneers

And those are only a few of the total mascots based on people of European descent, and all those mascots act up and get into the spirit of things during competitions.


73 posted on 02/01/2020 5:00:02 PM PST by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: EdnaMode

The name is not “loaded.” Nor is it “controversial.”

As usual, CNN is full of crap.


74 posted on 02/01/2020 5:09:16 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Will88
The Redskins. That one really pisses them off, right down to the emblem and mascot. Oddly, most Indians don't give a rat's ass, including my wife, who's 3/10ths Cherokee.
75 posted on 02/01/2020 5:16:48 PM PST by Viking2002 (Epstein and Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 didn't kill themselves. Yeah, I went there.)
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My old high school, which is named after a Confederate Cavalry General just changed its name a year or two ago. The funny thing was this particular Calvary General kept the Union Army at Bay on a hill just behind where the high school sits. And they wouldn’t even consider the naming of the high school after the hill just behind where the high school sits.


76 posted on 02/01/2020 5:28:58 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Viking2002
Seminole means Runaway (as in slaves who did and joined up with the natives).

So there you go Florida State, update the name to Florida Runaways.

77 posted on 02/01/2020 5:38:17 PM PST by onona
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To: SanchoP

More CNN FAKE NEWS!

The KC Chiefs were established as the Dallas Texans in 1960 as a member of the new American Football League. Lamar Hunt, the founder of the league, owned the Dallas franchise but the NFL tried to run him off by expanding into Dallas the same year with the Dallas Cowboys. Knowing he couldn’t survive a head-to-head battle with the established NFL, Hunt moved the Texans to Kansas City after the 1962 season.

So there was NO Kansas City Chiefs in 1959, 1960, 1961 or 1962! How Lamar Hunt got the nickname, I honestly can’t tell you but I sure as hell don’t believe the crap written by the CNN chick.

It certainly wasn’t controversial in 1967 when the Chiefs played in the first Super Bowl and it wasn’t controversial in 1970, the last time they played in the Super Bowl. That I can tell you.


78 posted on 02/01/2020 5:40:27 PM PST by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: OrangeHoof

If it’s not nicknames, it’s statues, or songs, or -ists, or - phobias.

It’s absolutely Orwellian.


79 posted on 02/01/2020 5:52:29 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: OrangeHoof

I remember the battle for Texas. Charlie Tolar for the Oilers was my hero. The Human Bowling Ball :)


80 posted on 02/01/2020 6:26:34 PM PST by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)
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