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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virtually every big river east of the Mississippi is named after the word the Indians called it.
No more nickels or pennies with Indians on them!
IMPEACH!!
It’s not going anywhere until we totally crush the Left. It is how they obtain money and power.
In 1959 they were the Dallas Texans.
There’s Indians, but that’s baseball.
GO CHIEFS!,,,
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!
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.
With whom is it “so controversial”?
Fake news.
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.
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.
The name is not “loaded.” Nor is it “controversial.”
As usual, CNN is full of crap.
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.
So there you go Florida State, update the name to Florida Runaways.
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.
If it’s not nicknames, it’s statues, or songs, or -ists, or - phobias.
It’s absolutely Orwellian.
I remember the battle for Texas. Charlie Tolar for the Oilers was my hero. The Human Bowling Ball :)
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